BT Retail upgrades its customers to 2Mb for free.

Seems BT have finally gone and admited it.

http://www.uk-bug.net/Article660.html

Summary .. all lines upgraded to 2Mb downstream, except BT Broadband
Basic which gets upgraded to 1Mb. There's no change in line
requirements for 2Mb (still at 43dB) nor upstream rate.

Existing consumer customers are to be upgraded from 17th Feb, business
from 1st April.

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Andy M Jenkins wrote:
> Seems BT have finally gone and admited it.
>
> http://www.uk-bug.net/Article660.html
>
> Summary .. all lines upgraded to 2Mb downstream, except BT Broadband
> Basic which gets upgraded to 1Mb. There's no change in line
> requirements for 2Mb (still at 43dB) nor upstream rate.
>
> Existing consumer customers are to be upgraded from 17th Feb, business
> from 1st April.
>

Excellent News! I'm getting BTB basic on Monday (due to free conversion
from Home Highway) and thought I was getting 512K!

"Andy M Jenkins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:cuf2rr$rcs$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Seems BT have finally gone and admited it.
>
> http://www.uk-bug.net/Article660.html
>
> Summary .. all lines upgraded to 2Mb downstream, except BT Broadband
> Basic which gets upgraded to 1Mb. There's no change in line
> requirements for 2Mb (still at 43dB) nor upstream rate.
>
> Existing consumer customers are to be upgraded from 17th Feb, business
> from 1st April.

I hope PIPEX are reading this.......

>
> --
> Regards
> Andy M Jenkins
> http://www.uk-bug.net The UK Broadband Usergroup

"Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:cuf741$kuf$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "Andy M Jenkins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:cuf2rr$rcs$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Seems BT have finally gone and admited it.
>>
>> http://www.uk-bug.net/Article660.html
>>
>> Summary .. all lines upgraded to 2Mb downstream, except BT Broadband
>> Basic which gets upgraded to 1Mb. There's no change in line
>> requirements for 2Mb (still at 43dB) nor upstream rate.
>>
>> Existing consumer customers are to be upgraded from 17th Feb, business
>> from 1st April.
>
> I hope PIPEX are reading this.......

And Wannadoo...I'm still on 512K uncapped at £27.99 :-(

Soo

Andy M Jenkins <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Seems BT have finally gone and admited it.
>
> http://www.uk-bug.net/Article660.html
>
> Summary .. all lines upgraded to 2Mb downstream, except BT Broadband
> Basic which gets upgraded to 1Mb. There's no change in line
> requirements for 2Mb (still at 43dB) nor upstream rate.

I'm currently on BT Broadband 1MB, which I thought was also 'basic.'
Will that get upgraded too? Can't quite tell from the news in the URL.

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:16:27 -0000, "Sue" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>> I hope PIPEX are reading this.......
>
>And Wannadoo...I'm still on 512K uncapped at £27.99 :-(

Then migrate! What's stopping you?

"Richard Sobey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:16:27 -0000, "Sue" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >> I hope PIPEX are reading this.......
> >
> >And Wannadoo...I'm still on 512K uncapped at £27.99 :-(
>
> Then migrate! What's stopping you?

why would you want to migrate? so you can get less faster? for the same
price on bt youd get 15gb of bandwidth a month... at 2mbs you should be able
to download 792mb an hour. youd use up your bandwidth allowance in less than
19 hours at full use.
cheers
james

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:36:40 GMT, "gonzo"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>"Richard Sobey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:16:27 -0000, "Sue" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> >> I hope PIPEX are reading this.......
>> >
>> >And Wannadoo...I'm still on 512K uncapped at £27.99 :-(
>>
>> Then migrate! What's stopping you?
>
>why would you want to migrate? so you can get less faster?

*ssssh* maybe Dave won't hear this, but Plusnet do "uncapped" 512Kb
for £21.99.

gonzo wrote:
> "Richard Sobey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:16:27 -0000, "Sue" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>I hope PIPEX are reading this.......
>>>
>>>And Wannadoo...I'm still on 512K uncapped at £27.99 :-(
>>
>>Then migrate! What's stopping you?
>
>
> why would you want to migrate? so you can get less faster? for the same
> price on bt youd get 15gb of bandwidth a month... at 2mbs you should be able
> to download 792mb an hour. youd use up your bandwidth allowance in less than
> 19 hours at full use.

The vast majority of people don't have that much stuff to download.

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:36:40 GMT, "gonzo"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>"Richard Sobey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:16:27 -0000, "Sue" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> >> I hope PIPEX are reading this.......
>> >
>> >And Wannadoo...I'm still on 512K uncapped at £27.99 :-(
>>
>> Then migrate! What's stopping you?
>
>why would you want to migrate? so you can get less faster? for the same
>price on bt youd get 15gb of bandwidth a month... at 2mbs you should be able
>to download 792mb an hour. youd use up your bandwidth allowance in less than
>19 hours at full use.
>cheers
>james
>
I obviously don't understand broadband, 'cos I must be doing something
wrong - I've only managed to shift 1.75GB of data in over 8 months :-)
PeeGee
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