Comments on: Broadband Britain?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 06:43:53 +0000

http://www.net4nowt.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=2627

Quote:
“Net Imperative reports that the The Network Interconnect Consultative Committee – Britain’s main broadband standards body – has agreed to support a new technology that will transmit information on BT’s existing copper wire network 35 times faster than current ADSL technology.

ADSL2+, will send data at up to 18Mb per second and will allow firms to offer convergent communications.”

That sounds better

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:23:42 +0000

Currently the only providers I know of in the UK that don’t have caps are:

V21 (www.v21.co.uk) – 512k @ Â£16.99/month.
Freedom2surf (www.f2s.com) – 512k @ Â£22.50 (including VAT) per month
Freeola (www.freeola.com) – 512k @ Â£26.99/month. They also offer 1mb and 2mb. I have web hosting with these and they’ve been pretty good.

If anyone knows of any more please say so.

Jack.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 05:04:50 +0000

When I was in Chile 256Kbps was considered broadband. In the US I have 3Mbps
at the same price. At least the US is good for something.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:28:49 +0000

Bill forgot to mention this minor detail!

….currently BT customers have a 30GB monthly limit, but the speeds are being double and the limit is comming down to 15GB. That would never last in my house, that works out at 125MB per person per day, between us we use about 2-3GB per day.

I’m glad I’m with a much better provider, 2Mbit and no cap

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:48:34 +0000

And caps are coming in and getting lower and lower all the time. You can have fast broadband, but you can’t actually download anything that needs high speed.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:28:55 +0000

Broadband in the uk – It sucks and thats all there is to it. At least I have an unmetered connection – unlike most providers in the Uk (checkout freedom2surf.com – The 512Kbps is about the best value you can get outside of london)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:04:53 +0000

I absolutely agree.

I have a 2Mbps line in my apartment but i still NEED MORE!!

I read somewhere that the BT lines in the UK can handle up to 8Mbps before they would have to rip them out and replace them with faster line. 8 Meg lines would be awseome but as you said the problem is the upload speed. At 256kbps its still not enough. I try to use online storage for backing up my files as much as i can but if a large file takes an age to upload whats the point.

8 Meg lines are available in london but thats all. why not in other cities like Glasgow. Is the infrastructure that different?