 NTL Broadband
While looking for a broadband speed test, I came across this forum in the list of speed tests in the American DSL Reports web page. This one has a good presentation and so over the couple of weeks that I've known about it, always works.
Then I registered.
I use NTL's broadband service and I am located in Glasgow.
I've been using NTL's service since shortly after it started here.
In fairness I have had little or nothing to complain about.
However over the past three to five weeks the download speeds have been very bad. Again in fairness it has settled down and steadied in the 800 to 1000-kbps.
At the start of the trouble, I was paying for a download speed of 4Mbps. When things went wrong the download speed, of which I had not been keeping track, fell to as low as 78 kbps - not a lot better than Dial-Up.
True there was a lot of work going on in the way of maintenance and new NTL gear being installed, which is fine but...
NTL's next speed down from the 4-Mbps is 2-Mbps and even that is twice as fast as the delivered speed at the moment -- of around and just under 1-Mbps.
For 90% of my needs that 1-Mbps is fine.
The only other downside of things is that the service being Asymmetric each so-called service speed has an upload speed that is a lot less. For example take their 2-Mbps service; that is supposed to give a download of 2,024 I believe the exact figure is and an upload of some 256.
Well, it looks to me as though the upload must be set as a %age of the download speed. I'd say about 10%. I say that because whenever I've used this speed test that is the rough proportion that I get, e.g., 1000 down and 100 upload.
There is also a limitation on the size of file that can be attached to an email.
The total message size, i.e., email + attachment cannot be bigger than 2-MegaBytes. At least that was the size at the time I was on NTL's 4-Mbps service, I'm not sure what it is for their 2-Mbps one.
Occasionally when I had had to send an attachment that was bigger than that 2-MByte size I use the 'YouSendIt' facility so that was not really a problem.
My television, telephone and Internet Connection are all via NTL.
My only gripe is that they are not supplying the speeds that they are advertising.
There now, that's the moan over.
I do like this sevice's broadband speedtest. Maybe I should emigrate to Dublin.
Regards Harry Sigerson.  | 
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