NTL Cable - What download speed should 1Mb cable give me?

Minstadave · 2 Aug 2006 at 21:24

Just sorted my new NTL cable account out with a hugely expensive phonecall to tech support (they'd messed up on their end) and was wondering what kind of download speeds I should be seeing with 1Mb cable.

Currently I'm getting OVER 1MB per second downloads which doesn't make much sense to me? :confused:

tolien · 2 Aug 2006 at 21:41

You mean you're getting 8Mbps (ie 1 megabyte a second) out of a connection that's meant to be 1Mbps?

Minstadave · 2 Aug 2006 at 21:50

tolien said:
You mean you're getting 8Mbps (ie 1 megabyte a second) out of a connection that's meant to be 1Mbps?

Yes my connection is 1Mbps NTL cable, but downloads are topping 1 megabyte per second, which is why I'm confused, but certainly not complaining

ste_bla · 2 Aug 2006 at 21:57

over 1MB a sec means surely your on the 10mb plan?

Minstadave · 2 Aug 2006 at 22:00

ste_bla said:
over 1MB a sec means surely your on the 10mb plan?

I only signed up for 1Mb, I'll see what my bill comes in as at the end of the month

Edit:

Just tried a few more downloads, all are above 1 megabyte per second:

Richdog · 2 Aug 2006 at 22:28

I hate you. :eek:

Sure you didn't sign up to the 10MB and kind of miss seeing the 0 on the end?

Minstadave · 2 Aug 2006 at 22:37

Richdog said:
I hate you.

Sure you didn't sign up to the 10MB and kind of miss seeing the 0 on the end?

I'm 100% sure, I had the GF watching to make sure I didn't tack on any extras

Phemo · 2 Aug 2006 at 22:46

Very strange. You should be getting 120KB/sec - it seems they've put you on 10mbit by accident.

What cable modem do you have? I'm guessing it's an ntl 250. Log into the modem's interface by going to http://192.168.100.1 and using the default login and pass of root and root then go to Operation Configuration. I have the 10mbit service and my figures are:

Maximum Downstream Data Rate : 10240000
Maximum Upstream Data Rate : 512000

If yours are the same then you're on 10mbit

It's obviously going to report that seeing as you're getting those speeds but at least it'll confirm your modem has the 10mbit config file. Just hope they carry on billing you for 1mbit.

Minstadave · 2 Aug 2006 at 23:00

Score

KizZ · 2 Aug 2006 at 23:06

You lucky sod :eek:

Imy · 2 Aug 2006 at 23:22

During uni, I came back home for the summer and got NTL cable installed for a few months.

They never billed me for it. They never reclaimed their cable modem.

Best of all....

When I tried to get reconnected the following year they would not believe me when I said I already had NTL lines installed.