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Topic: Telewest broadband
Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Telewest broadband
Date Posted: 28 April 2004 at 6:58pm
Customers are reaping the benefits from the broadband wars, my broadband speed is going from 512kbps to over 750kbps this month for free! (Telewest)



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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 28 April 2004 at 7:12pm
Is that your transfer rate or advertised speed?

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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 29 April 2004 at 5:33am
Dunno!


Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 29 April 2004 at 8:17am

Originally posted by Gullanian Gullanian wrote:

Customers are reaping the benefits from the broadband wars, my broadband speed is going from 512kbps to over 750kbps this month for free! (Telewest)

Not all the time we win, but lets hope

Look at this link it reports capping of broadband

http://www.anticap.co.uk/ - http://www.anticap.co.uk/ -



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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 29 April 2004 at 9:20am

They are doing the same here, I had 1.5MBit DSL switched to 2MBit Cable and not DSL here is offering 3MBit DSL for the same price... oh well I guess I wait till there is 5MBit something till I make a change again.



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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 29 April 2004 at 11:12am
Lucky you. I am on BT business. 512kbps. (we actually get 576)


Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 29 April 2004 at 11:19am
NTL 600k, the are saying that they are going to give us 50% more though (900k) for the same price


Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 29 April 2004 at 11:53am

http://www.broadbandreports.com/ - http://www.broadbandreports.com/

One of the most informative BB sites. Very good speed testing tools.



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Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 29 April 2004 at 4:11pm
comcast is giving me 3MBPS down and 256 up... pretty good... unfortunately most other computers on the internet won't give you 3MBPS transfer :(

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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 29 April 2004 at 4:15pm

Im getting 3MB/s also.

I remember a few years ago before i moved i was paying $50 a month for 1.5MB/s (advertised speed). I was actually getting 1.2MB/s transfer rates. I remember downloading a 120MB patch for Half-Life in less than 3 minutes. It was nice



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Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 30 April 2004 at 9:45am

This may interest you from..

http://www.anticap.co.uk/ - AntiCap

Clarification from Telewest - It's not "capped"

Following our earlier story " http://www.anticap.co.uk/news/show_news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1078592400&archive=&cnshow=headlines&start_from=&ucat=1&" target=blank>New Capped Services Launched AntiCap has been contacted by Telewest Broadband's consumer PR Manager, John Moorwood. He has expressed concern that, in common with much of the media the Telewest service has been compared to the BT offering, whereas they are differently regulated.

Mr Moorwood states:

Hi guys. Just seen your combined piece on the new Telewest Broadband and BT Broadband service launches (256kb blueyonder and BT Basic respectively). I've got to object to the use of the term 'cap' in relation to our new Blueyonder service.

BT has been open about its cap and users will eventually be charged extra
for exceeding that limit. The 750Mb of data traffic per day that we refer to
is merely a usage guideline and is not intended to act as a strict cap.

If we were imposing a strict cap we would make it very clear. But with the
256kb service we would only contact a customer if they regularly and significantly exceeded that usage guideline for a sustained period - and then only to recommend they move to a faster service in 512kb, 1Mb or 2Mb blueyonder broadband. It would not result in them being charged extra or having service terminated for over use



AntiCap is pleased to see a responsible attitude to budget services and that customers would be offered the clear upgrade path where they use the service heavily.



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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 30 April 2004 at 11:40am
Luckily the normal BT service is not capped. However they now offer a cheaper soultion that is capped.


Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 30 April 2004 at 11:53am

Originally posted by huwnet huwnet wrote:

Luckily the normal BT service is not capped. However they now offer a cheaper soultion that is capped.

Not at the moment but the way things are going BT may just join the rest. It seams to me Broadband ISPs are learning fast on how to pull a fast one over its customers. Capping and then making the package look good seams to be the sales technique. We can only hope this is not going to bee across the board.



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