Comments on: NTL trials 18 mbps broadband

British cable operator pilots project that could really speed up data rates to home broadband subscribers.

NTL Trials of ADSL2+

It is OK for companies to start announcing these magnificent
download speeds for net connection. What they only reveal in
the fine print is that the upload speed is often capped to only
256 kilobits per second. That's OK if you are trying to stop your
customer from starting a web hosting business, but for someone
like a small design studio which has to pass highly designed
InDesign or QuarkXpress pages for review and approval to a
publisher or pre-press house, it's a killer. This may make NTL's
claim of being able to reach 95 per cent of the populace
worthless.

[System Tyrant]

Heres a thought

I think it would be kind of cool if High Speed Internet providers to allow for flexible internet speeds. In other words if you have a 1.5mbps connection spead then that is what you get up and down, but not at the same time.

For example if you are only uploading you can max it out at 1.5mbps, but if your downloading and uploading then it balances out. Maybe set someway of dividing bandwidth like if you are downloading two files and uploading one your downloads get 2/3 bandwidth and your upload gets 1/3.

I don't know, just a thought.

ADSL2+ 1,5 MB up

In Norway ADSL2+ is allready offered on commercial basis. They sell two packages. One with 25MB down and 1,5 MB up, and one with 12MB down and 1,5MB up. (See - Only in Norwegian -http://www.nextgentel.no/privat/produkter/adsl/ and a comments by a news provider http://www.digi.no/php/art.php?id=210412)

NB: I'm using comma(,) as decimal symbol - as ISO (http://www.iso.ch). so I'm not talking about 1500 MB up ...

[nealda]

Wow. 18 milli-bits per second.

What's a milli-bit, anyway.