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NTL 10 meg.

dlofnep · 2005-12-13 11:37:27

I've read around and I see that NTL is meant to be upgrading to a potential 10meg connection. Does anybody have anymore info on this? I've emailed NTL asking them but they haven't got back to me yet.

13-12-2005 12:37pm

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I've read around and I see that NTL is meant to be upgrading to a potential 10meg connection. Does anybody have anymore info on this? I've emailed NTL asking them but they haven't got back to me yet.

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#2 13-12-2005 12:38pm

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dlofnep wrote:

I've read around and I see that NTL is meant to be upgrading to a potential 10meg connection. Does anybody have anymore info on this? I've emailed NTL asking them but they haven't got back to me yet.

Its coming.....

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#3 13-12-2005 12:40pm

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Already discussed here
News article here.

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#4 13-12-2005 12:43pm

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biofreak wrote:

Already discussed here
News article here.

A little smart, thats a UK article, differenct company, and it has never been discussed, just a few pepole mentioned they had speeds for one eve about 2 weeks ago! also its 4 months old............

lets discuss................

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#5 13-12-2005 12:48pm

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Very good Drapper. It is for the UK. I've done some scouring and searching, only thing I can come up with is this: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single5069

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#6 13-12-2005 12:49pm

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dlofnep wrote:

Very good Drapper. It is for the UK. I've done some scouring and searching, only thing I can come up with is this: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single5069

It will go 10mb in the next few days or just after Christmas! I hope........

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#7 13-12-2005 12:50pm

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We were all upgraded one night a few weeks ago. I would imagine we will be upgraded again soon. Eircon are upgrading so NTL will follow suit.

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#8 13-12-2005 12:51pm

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Also SMART and Netsource

Come ON NTL put us out of our missery! before Christmas would be perfect!

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#9 13-12-2005 12:53pm

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Drapper wrote:

It will go 10mb in the next few days or just after Christmas! I hope........

Really? I'm on the 3meg service. Where did you hear it will go up on Xmas? that would be a nice xmas present if I do say so myself Hopefully NTL will email me back soon so we can get some closure on this.

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#10 13-12-2005 12:54pm

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a small little bird............. never left his whole name!

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#11 13-12-2005 12:56pm

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give them a ring and ask for the upgrade. they may be offering trials..
i rang them last year enquiring about the previous upgrade and they upgraded me again on the spot..

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#12 13-12-2005 12:57pm

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yeah, I'll see what the sya in the mail. Stuck in work at the moment so can't call them.

Drapper - I'll take your word for it.

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#13 13-12-2005 12:59pm

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dlofnep wrote:

yeah, I'll see what the sya in the mail. Stuck in work at the moment so can't call them.

Drapper - I'll take your word for it.

Its kinda simple, NTL do not want to be behind SMART at 5mb and Eircom at 5mb, Netsource at 5mb and IBB at dial up! they wanna be leaders! ;-) so they are gonna upgrade!

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#14 13-12-2005 1:01pm

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It makes perfect sense. 10 meg is a major jump. I like

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#15 13-12-2005 1:02pm

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dlofnep wrote:

It makes perfect sense. 10 meg is a major jump. I like

Its not Majic its just SMART of NTL

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#16 13-12-2005 2:39pm

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We can probably stop calling them NTL:Ireland now, the Liberty Group completed the purchase yesterday, so it will probably be rebranded UPC very soon, probably at the same time as the upgrades, it would be great PR.

All of us on the 3m service experienced 10m/512k for one night two weeks ago, so the network and technology is certainly capable of it, however that was an accident, on that day NTL:UK customers (a different company) were getting upgraded to 10m, we seem to have also gotten the upgrade for one night (NTL:Ireland still seems to use part of the UK network). It went back down to 3m/300k.

However there seems to be a lot of rumours going around that we will get the upgrade also, including from NTL sales people and installers.

It makes sense that UPC would want to wait to upgrade until they rebrand, so that they can launch a big national advertising campaign to launch the new brand along with the new speeds. It would also be great if they hurried up and launch a phone service over BB. I expect this might happen at the same time, fingers crossed.

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#17 13-12-2005 2:52pm

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It'd also be great if they offered their broadband service to more people!

Me, for instance.

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#18 13-12-2005 3:09pm

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It would be great if they could offer their services outside large city's and get proper national coverage not just the lucky few who live in the selected areas of Dublin, Galway and Waterford cities.

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They'll merge with Chorus in the next few months and that will widen their coverage. I can't see them expanding much beyond current Chorus/NTL areas though. Perhaps they start to use MMDS for BB?

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#20 13-12-2005 4:06pm

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E-mail from NTL in reply to me asking about 10 meg.

Dear John,

Thank you for your email. Our Marketing Department are continuously looking at all avenues regarding our Broadband Service. At the moment there is no confirmation to whether or when we will be upgrading the speeds on the Broadband Service.

Should this situation change we will notify all customers immediately.

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#21 13-12-2005 4:09pm

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They said this about the upgrade to 3 meg. It either means they don't know or they were told not to tell customers.

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#22 13-12-2005 4:25pm

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paulm17781 wrote:

They said this about the upgrade to 3 meg. It either means they don't know or they were told not to tell customers.

i would say the latter

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#23 13-12-2005 5:38pm

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I have just ordered the service and the guy confirmed that the 3 Meg service is to be upgraded to 10 Meg service - no date yet - but probably Jan.

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#24 13-12-2005 6:43pm

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Heard the same thing when I asked the girl on the phone when I was ordering my NTL. Sometime in the new year.

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#25 16-12-2005 1:44pm

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waits............ Eircom Upgrades have started, and SMART too..................

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#26 16-12-2005 1:49pm

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Drapper wrote:

waits............ Eircom Upgrades have started, and SMART too..................

Was thinking the same...

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#27 16-12-2005 2:14pm

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have to admit it seems faster ! but the modem settings are still at 3meg, they must have updated most the nodes!

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#28 16-12-2005 6:20pm

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I've been on 10Megs with NTL for the past 4 days now. Although I got one of them swanky new blue modems about 2 months ago. When they installed it the engineers mentioned testing the new speeds with it.

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#29 16-12-2005 7:00pm

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HarryHoudini wrote:

I've been on 10Megs with NTL for the past 4 days now. Although I got one of them swanky new blue modems about 2 months ago. When they installed it the engineers mentioned testing the new speeds with it.

Were are you?

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#30 16-12-2005 7:10pm

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I've got the NTL:250 modem. I don't think it's anything to do with the modem, I'd say it's more to do with the fact that you are on a beta trial list or something.

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#31 16-12-2005 7:10pm

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Any news on what will happen us lowly 2Mb guys?

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