Free NTL speed increases!

[Fat Tone]

For those UK NTL customers on broadband, you can now get free upgrades to faster packages with just a couple of clicks and a modem reboot! I heard this was coming but I haven't seen it advertised unless you go digging on their website.


For the details go to www.ntlworld.com then Help, Upgrade your speed.

I was on 750/128 for £24.99/month. I am now on 2048/256 for the same price.

The only downside is a theoretical cap of 30GB/month, but I hear that is unlikely to be imposed.

Happy upgrading, surfers!

[uberlad]

Finally!

Telewest sorted me out with 2mb before Christmas - I'm suprised that NTL waited so long before jumping on the bandwagon.

Never a bad thing for people to get faster broadband though.

Uberlad

[dbdg]

I'm on 1.5MB at the moment anyway, this could be interesting.

[Fat Tone]

Yes - 3Mb for the same price!

Let us know what your u/l speed goes to.

[dZeus]

competition between cable and ADSL seems to be paying off here too.. my cable subscription got upgraded from 2.5 down / 0.5 up to 4/1 recently at the same price ('bout 35 quid a month). They also removed any bandwidth caps (used to be 40 GB a month).

[SuRGV]

we are on 6.5 Mbps/900 kbps for the same price here in Canada :>

[Fat Tone]

Finally!

Telewest sorted me out with 2mb before Christmas - I'm suprised that NTL waited so long before jumping on the bandwagon... Uberlad

It was rumoured last year to be happening this quarter, and may have been available for a while, but NTL don't seem to be going out of their way to advertise it.

Incidentally, it seems that they may adopt ADSL2 later this year: They have always run spare copper with their coax, and this will be ideal. 95% of their customers are within 1000m of their 'exchanges' and could access 18-24Mbit! I think they will use this for HDTV, VOD and ~8Mbit internet.

[dbdg]

Yes - 3Mb for the same price!

Let us know what your u/l speed goes to.

Well download is now 3MB, upload is 300kbps, pretty much what it was.

[Fat Tone]

Well download is now 3MB, upload is 300kbps, pretty much what it was.

Nice d/l. My u/l seems to only be doing ~185-195kbps, but I guess I can't grumble.

[dbdg]

Are we even able to get a decent upload speed in the UK?

Edit: FT, do you have more then 1 PC connected to the Net through your cable modem. I ended up putting a second network card into my main rig so I can use both my network and the net at the same time, wasn't having it otherwise.

[Paulr]

I got my free NTL upgrade about three weeks ago.
There hasn't really been any official announcement - you just went to a certain webpage (whilst using your NTL connection) clicked on the upgrade option and then let the Cable Modem reboot.

I started on 600k nearly a year ago, got a free upgrade to 750k and now another free one to 2MB.
It is unfortunate I'm moving to a non-NTL area in about three weeks.
So I'm going to have to take ADSL instead.
As far as ADSL goes I think it maybe *Shock/Horror* AOL's 2MB connection at £29 a month as it is complete unmetred - but we'll see.

NTL have been great for me over the past 12 months, I've had only one fifteen minute outage in all that time (that I know of).