On 01/08/2018 11:17, Terry Casey wrote:
In article , johnny-b-
says...

On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:33:30 +0100, Terry Casey wrote:

Strange - it only seems a very short while ago that we were rolling out
our initial 600bps broadband product in competition with 56kbs dial-up!

Typo? ITYM 600Kbps broadband service. :-)

Oops! Yes, 600kbps.


I *well* remember the time when NTL used the 'harmonisation' of the
128Kbps service to 150Kbps (quarter the speed of the 600Kbps which had
formerly been 512Kbps) to squeeze a disproportionate (exhorbitant!) 3
quid increase over the 15 quid a month I'd formerly been paying.

We were Bell Cable Media at the time (later Cable & Wieless
Communications) and didn't offer a lower speed than 600kbps


Mind you, during the past 15 years or so, that same basic
150Kbps service has now morphed via several free speed
upgrades into an 85Mbps service (only a paltry 5Mbps upload
speed though)

I've never had the need for blisteringly fast upload speeds
and I doubt that the average user does, either.

As more and more people are using NAS boxes and may want to remotely
access files or are storing things in the Cloud, upload speed is
becoming more important. Especially useful for remote backup.

SteveW