Yay for NTL

[slycat]

NTL upgraded our connection last night.  The connection was 750kbit meaning that my downloads came down at around 85kB/s.  That was fairly impressive in itself.



Whee!

Comments

[aidax.livejournal.com]

Dude!!! What've you been downloading!??!

[slycat.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed by the amount of time it took you to knock together that pic. However that's the wrong icon for a rar file ;) I guess you got the filename from your own hard drive :P

[aidax.livejournal.com]

Shut your meow hole, puzzykat!! :-p

[aydin-e.livejournal.com]

... *insane laughter from the shadows*

[timduru.livejournal.com]

Yeah it's quite impressive how the dsl & co are fighting around here too in regard to connection speeds :)
Well all the good for us the customers.
But we can get a 15Mb/s now here (theorical, around 10Mb/s verified)
and some providers are already annoncing a Max theorical of 30Mb/s SYMETRICAL
*drools* I could get my server back home with that ;)
although I suspect that they would limit the upload to something less than the max theorical, otherwise it'd cost too much for them as bandwith is not free ;)

[slycat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I heard that France already is leading the way in Europe for high-speed broadband from this article! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4355665.stm

Whilst I'm now on a 2mbit connection, they are capping the downloads to 30gb a month which is how they ensure their bandwidth costs don't go through the roof... Shame really, I could easily sit here and download that much in a few days given the chance :P

[timduru.livejournal.com]

argh, yeah it sucks to have a download limit.
they used to have that a few years back on cable connection here.
I hope they are not going to go back to limiting again in the future.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Hm! I'd been under the impression it was more the Scandinavians leading the way, but I've not really been following closely. Of course, there's always Japan, Taiwan, and Korea with VDSL, offering up to 100Mbps.. ^_^ But, for such speeds, you need fiber running close to the home - indeed, even ADSL2+, which BT are starting to test out, will only reach 18Mbps within something like 1km of the exchange - further away, ADSL vanilla yields superior results.

Is that 30GB a hard cap? There seems to be some variation in ISPs' definitions of "cap" - with PlusNet shifting over entirely to MaxDSL, everyone will be moved to the fastest their line can support, with the usage level determining the cost instead. For £22/mo, that's a 30GB soft cap, counting only data coming in, and not between midnight-8am or somesuch. Even then, it seems that'll only bump your warnings count by one - if you reach three, you either get throttled (the connection, that is), can buy more allowance, or move. Interesting scheme, though I'd sooner see their transit costs come down so that that weren't even necessary. (FWIW, it appears they pay £1.5m/yr to BT for each 622Mbps pipe)

And then there's WiMAX on the horizon, too. ^_^

[trukkle.livejournal.com]

Welcome to high-speed internet, fun isn't it :)