Blueyonder gets faster
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Topic: Blueyonder gets faster
Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Blueyonder gets faster
Date Posted: 23 November 2004 at 4:42pm
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http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyonder/getContent.jspx?page=bbs_evenfaster - Link Anyone using blueyonder broadband here in the UK gets a free upgrade :) This is the second one, at home I started with 500kbps, then they upgraded if for free to 750kbps, now it's going to be 1mbit! |
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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 23 November 2004 at 4:57pm
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They offer 1.5MB/s standard cable where I'm at. I don't think they offer 256k anymore unless you go with DSL. ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 23 November 2004 at 4:58pm
| I thought you could get like 4mbit in the US? |
Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 23 November 2004 at 5:03pm
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You could get just about anything, just depends where you are at. An average town you can get i think up to 3-5 MB connection with cable. I have an uncle that has a personal T1 line in Seattle. I live in a very small town, so i pay $100 (usd) a month for 1000k DSL. Thats the best thing they have here, they don't even have cable internet yet. ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 23 November 2004 at 6:04pm
| Things seem to be improving a lot quicker though around the world. |
Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 23 November 2004 at 10:25pm
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Yup. Cant wait until everyone has DSL or Cable, then they could come out with some better Online Games that arnt built for 56k/DSL/Cable but instead of faster connections. Faster Connections = Better Gaming :) ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 23 November 2004 at 11:59pm
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Just wait for some HL2 mods to come out :) I think Battlefield 2 supports 128 players in one game, that'd be cool. |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 24 November 2004 at 3:08am
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NOT over here.. 95% people still connect through money-pit dialup :@ ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Gullanian wrote:Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 24 November 2004 at 7:31am
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:( Over here things are accelerating pretty fast, blueyonder are doing 4mbit by christmas for like £30. |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 24 November 2004 at 9:09am
Though I thing it's still a rip off. My cable company charges me $42.99 for a 4MBit/512kbit line and 49 if you don't have any of their tv packages. that is way to expensive. Sure they give me cheaper ones for less speed put I think that is all just a scheme. I personally am with that Mayor in San Francisco who says his goal is to offer free DSL Speed Wireless Internet Access to every Resident of SF... that is the way to go, we have enough andwidth just make it public domain  ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 24 November 2004 at 9:10am
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Bandwidth here is dirt cheap. I don't even think you can get 1 or 2
Mbit lines anymore. Most are 10 and VDSL is 50 as of a year or so ago.
Nasty fast. Of course that doesn't mean squat when everything else is
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 24 November 2004 at 10:57am
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I just want a broadband connection that works!! I've had the following blow up since September:-
My phone company BT say there is nothing wrong with my line, but after about a week of each modem working fine I start getting CRC errors and dropped lines till they get to the stage where they cannot hold an ADSL syn connection for longer than 20 seconds and I have to go and get a new one. Each time they send an engineer out they say it's my equipment that is faulty and nothing to do with their line and charge me £50. I'm changing to cable next week and telling BT to stick there phone up their arse. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 24 November 2004 at 11:02am
This is the number or errors and dropped signals I've had in the last 30 minutes:-
Dial up would be faster at the moment!!!  ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 24 November 2004 at 11:44am
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wow! @gullian: Is blueyonder still patnered with telewest? (it was once) @micheal: lucky @bluefrog: You have a fast line but when you visit a korean site it is very slow. Do you have a slow outbound connection or have things improved. @borg: I am also on BT. I use a d-link ( ) router. I am still waiting for my 512kbps > 1mpbs bt broadband buisness upgrade. |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 24 November 2004 at 11:46am
| I assume so, they both are linked to each other on the net. |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 24 November 2004 at 3:31pm
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I dunno Borg, but Id I were loosing that many modems, I'd be thinking electrical problem. A DSL line is just copper and carries 80 volts max in the US and that's only wharn they're testing it normally it's much less. If there was enough voltage coming in from the line to fry the modem consistently, they'd be able to catch it and block it comming into the house. If you're using an internal modem, consider switching to an external. If you're using an external, consider putting it on a load-leveling ups. ------------- 
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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 24 November 2004 at 3:35pm
lol thats what i was thinking, but since i don't know much about that stuff i didn't say anything incase you sounded like a noob  ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 24 November 2004 at 3:48pm
| Telewest IS blueyonder I think |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 25 November 2004 at 2:17am
| Wasn't telewest oringaly patnered with ntl and they called it blueyonder? And then ntl introduced their own cable service. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 25 November 2004 at 4:39am
3 of my ADSL modems where external powered by USB only and through two different computers with different serge protected plugs. The two wireless ADSL modem routers where external with their own serge protected power supply and only the ADSL side of them was effected. No other ellectrical equipment has been effected. Also the BT engineer has said that 3 DSL filters are fried and they are only connected to the phone line. My BT landline keeps going dead, and also I have dropped calls and clicking sounds. During a period of 1 to 2 hours when my landline was dead with no dial tone from any socket on a number of phones I phoned the BT operator on my cell phone for them to test the line then and there and tell me that there was nothing wrong with the line, even though it was dead and I had no dial tone!! After all this I contacted NTL and for less than the price of my BT land line and 512k ADSL they are going to give me a phone line, 750k cable broadband and 100 cable TV channels. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 25 November 2004 at 5:56am
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If the dsl filters are getting fried, then there;s voltage coming in from the phone line. I like the bit about them testing a dead phone and finding it to be ok. I used to work for a telco in the US. One of the things I remember seeing posted was the 1908 "Rules for Telephone Repairmen" from the Chicago Phone company. Along with the stuff about putting a blanket on your horse when it's cold, they said something like "Every customer knows when phone service is not satisfactory. The same cannot be said about every repairman." -------------
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 25 November 2004 at 8:14am
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I've gievn up complaining as they charge me £60 each time they find nothing wrong with my line. Anyway hopefully I'll have more luck with my new phone company, just have to wait a week for the new line to be connected. In the meantime, I'm about to go back to dial-up as it will be faster at the moment than my ADSL broadband. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 25 November 2004 at 10:20am
That was 1 of the things I wanted to point out - the speed of the connection doesn't matter beyond a certain point. If the server can't keep up to it, who cares? ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 25 November 2004 at 10:30am
This makes me wonder if the telcos and ISPs are just cutting each other's throats with price cuts, but at £60 a pop? Telcos are just as incompetant and greedy as banks. Both of which I hate with total demonic passion. The concept of "quality product" does not exist in their minds. Just 1 thing... "PROFIT". Makes me sick. ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 25 November 2004 at 11:16am
| NTL is pretty good, they hardly go down... only one bad point - you need to pay extra for xbox live |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 25 November 2004 at 11:47am
| why is that? |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 25 November 2004 at 1:36pm
| I've got nothing bad to say about Telewest/Blueyonder (whatever it is!) apart from their customer telephone service is bad, but then again as far as I know it is with every tele company. |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 25 November 2004 at 1:46pm
MAC address caching, you need to purchase a seperate IP address for your xbox |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 26 November 2004 at 2:37am
 I see/edit: couldn't you just get a cheap router? |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 26 November 2004 at 2:52am
I've got a router since then, not sure if it works with a router though... I will see tonight when I try to install xbox live again |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 28 November 2004 at 5:16pm
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Need the MS Speech SDK - downloading has leveled off at 360 KB/s and says it will take 5.5 minutes to download the 135 MB SDK. Gotta love SPEED~! Ever notice how MSDN developer stuff can be a lot faster than the end-user stuff? ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |