NTL Upgrade

Mercury_Tilt · 06-02-2006 12:00am

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TheMonster · 06-02-2006 9:01am

I think I have an old modem but got the full speed when they did their tests at the end of last year. Why are they being replaced?

Nietzschean · 06-02-2006 9:37am

well i think its changing standards more than a speed upgrade, they haven't upgraded everyone in the uk to the 250's who got 10meg.... though there are rampant problems with it looking at ntlhell.co.uk

OfflerCrocGod · 06-02-2006 4:15pm

Ozzy wrote:

I'm sick of waiting, let's wreck the joint

Are you offended by some cartoons NTL published?

dlofnep · 06-02-2006 4:20pm

We want more speed! Freeeeeedom! :v:

Ozzy · 06-02-2006 5:29pm

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

Are you offended by some cartoons NTL published?

Well... You couldn't direct me to the nearest NTL embassy could you?

dlofnep · 06-02-2006 5:32pm

Make sure to bring a zippo.

gerire · 06-02-2006 6:32pm

Ozzy wrote:

Well... You couldn't direct me to the nearest NTL embassy could you?

I demand Freedom of speeds!!!!

Mercury_Tilt · 06-02-2006 7:46pm

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dlofnep · 07-02-2006 3:08am

MAC replacement. It's just so that your new modem is allowed to connect to their authentication server. It filters by a list of unique MAC addresses.

PixelTrawler · 07-02-2006 10:07pm

so the general gist then is were looking at an upgrade before end of feb...?
which is not bad seeing as thats just over 2 weeks away...

maquiladora · 08-02-2006 1:28am

Joebloggs4817 wrote:

so the general gist then is were looking at an upgrade before end of feb...?
which is not bad seeing as thats just over 2 weeks away...

Early March at the very latest, yep.

dlofnep · 08-02-2006 10:40pm

bring on the upgrades already!

maquiladora · 09-02-2006 4:09pm

C'mom NTL, for feck sake, release a press statement or something....

the starvation of news is depressing!

leeroybrown · 09-02-2006 4:18pm

I rang NTL recently about getting NTL broadband installed. When I requested the 3Mbit service I was told by the operator that it would be increased to 10Mbit in late February or early March. I hadn't asked for the new speeds but when I was told 10Mbit I asked if it was 'the official NTL upgrade speed' for the 3Mbit package and was told that it was.

Obviously, there is only so much faith you can put in customer information but...

FuzzyWuzzyWazza · 09-02-2006 4:39pm

The reason they are changing out the old terayon modems is that they are only DOCSIS 1.0 compliant, wit the upgrading of the system to DOCSIS 2.0 compliance all of the old modems have to go. It was a sad day when I said goodbye to old tery.

maquiladora · 09-02-2006 5:40pm

leeroybrown wrote:

I rang NTL recently about getting NTL broadband installed. When I requested the 3Mbit service I was told by the operator that it would be increased to 10Mbit in late February or early March. I hadn't asked for the new speeds but when I was told 10Mbit I asked if it was 'the official NTL upgrade speed' for the 3Mbit package and was told that it was.

Obviously, there is only so much faith you can put in customer information but...

Its encouraging that they are now actually telling people about this upgrade without us having to ask, that signals that the agents have been informed by communications on what the final packages are. Good stuff. As for the dates, late feb/early march is what weve been hearing from the engineers too, so good stuff all round. Bring it on. :v:

CyberGhost · 09-02-2006 7:39pm

Lol I'm so happy to join this thread, I'm getting ntl installed on Monday

10Mb weeeeee!!!!!...............

keyran · 10-02-2006 10:43am

maquiladora wrote:

that signals that the agents have been informed by communications on what the final packages are.

In fairness it was a sales rep that told him. The speculation is a bit of a waste anyway. It is obvious that speeds will upgrade on all ISPs. Broadband is one of the fastest growing things in the world speculating its going to get better is the same as speculating more houses being built.

MartMax · 10-02-2006 2:11pm

this thread (waiting) no longer gives me a thrill.

why wouldn't just us sit and wait... quietly....

for the mean time, let's pray hoping that no broken connections or service breakdown...

ambro25 · 13-02-2006 5:35pm

For anyone who posted in this thread to help me with my NTL BB woes - a deep thank you.

For anyone interested: it was the f*cking modem (changed at lunchtime today).

Result: 3 week with no BB, first round of Boards.ie Battlefield 2 tourny missed - when I told them within a week that it could only be the modem.

Two thumbs down at NTL :mad: :mad: