NTL Speed Increase?

unkel · 22-09-2004 1:21am #1

Noticed tonight that my download speed has increased from 1 to 1.5 Mbps. Anybody know what's the story?

bus77 · 22-09-2004 1:47am

Free upgrade unkel. Everyone got it. My 600kbs is now 750
I thought everyone knew about that, where have you been!!?

unkel · 22-09-2004 2:03am

bus77 wrote:

Free upgrade unkel. Everyone got it. My 600kbs is now 750
I thought everyone knew about that, where have you been!!?

Cheers bus77

I vaguely remembered a similar post a good while ago (been busy) but did not recall it was for free. Nice one anyway - I'm happy

To put things into perspective though, m8 in the Netherlands got cable internet nearly 3.5 years ago. Back then he got 1.5mbps for about €35. Same thing I apparently got today for my €50 per month :rolleyes:

If we were civilised, we'd have 100mbps fibre optics into the residential home by now...

CiaranC · 22-09-2004 3:39pm

Free upgrade unkel. Everyone got it. My 600kbs is now 750
I thought everyone knew about that, where have you been!!?

I didnt know about it either. Got a letter back when they upped the 512 to 600, but nothing this time. Any more info available?

Lenny · 22-09-2004 3:56pm

they haven't upgraded you yet?
give them a ring and they do it over the phone right away
1800 321 321

daymobrew · 22-09-2004 4:01pm

http://www.ntl.com/locales/ie/en/athome/internet_cable.html

Note that the speed increase was done around 31st August.

seamus · 22-09-2004 4:04pm

Afaik, you can connect to your modem to find out what your connection speed is. It should have been automatically set, and done by 21st August.

Afaik, the link is
http://192.168.100.1/ but I can't check it from here.

Lenny · 22-09-2004 4:35pm

If thats the ip the user is:root pass:root
if thats not it, check the other threads about ntl Upgrade 1mb to 1.5
should be back on page 2 of this forum

CiaranC · 22-09-2004 7:20pm

Hmmm. Mines a motorola surfboard sb4100, no info as to service speed when i point my browser at the modem. Its using the tmota4100-silver.cm config file, which seems right, but the logs show failed unit upgrades - "Unit Update - Not updating. This image is not for this platform."

Ive been away while these upgrades were made. Its jacked in via USB (1.1) to the comp, would that cause a speed bottleneck? *edit* doh, obviously not

I max out at about 85KB/sec (680 kilobits/sec) off ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux, does that sound right?

carrotcake · 22-09-2004 7:45pm

open up the docsis config file and see what the max speed is set too. i presume you know how since you've a sb4100

iksaw · 22-09-2004 7:46pm

"silver" config file = 750k

going on your download / spe"edtest it's on the correct one

CiaranC · 22-09-2004 7:59pm

TCNiSO wrote:

...
Lets look at some more stuff
Current Download cap is: 750000 bps
Current upload cap is: 128000 bps

Sweet!

*edit* BTW, anyone got a copy of the mota4100-silver.cm and mota4100-gold.cm files off the ntl tftp? I never could manage to get them down to have a look.

NTL Speed Increase?

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