24mb Broadband for me

yoda · 18 Mar 2008 at 12:13

My phone provider has sent me out a info notice saying that in 2-4 weeks they are providing 24MB Broadband subject to avaliability.
I phoned to enquire and was told that my town was enabled and I would be able to get it but they could not do a speed check yet.

It's £34.99/month and it's completely UNLIMITED... and the best thing is, it's 1.3mb upload.

I have not seen ANY ISP offer 24mb... I believe they are the first....
I know of a few ISP's offering 16mb, but thats it...

I'm with them for phone and calls, and they sent info to me coz i'm a customer, not sure if they will only allow BB accounts though...
I must admit, they not the cheepest provider around, but you get what you pay for... if you want cheep crap go to the chepo wherehouse.

I'm not sure if i'm allowed to say who they are on here though????

I allready got my name down, as soon as it's avaliable their going to contact me...

Blue Cypher · 18 Mar 2008 at 12:16

im sticking to cable myself as i may only get 4mb at the moment at a lot less than yours, but it is 4mb none of this "20mb but really is 5mb" lark so good luck to you getting what you pay for, but dont get too excited just yet at 24mb

gurusan · 18 Mar 2008 at 12:16

erm. BeThere.co.uk is 18 quid/month. 24down, 1.3 up unlimited.

Trifid · 18 Mar 2008 at 12:20

gurusan said:
erm. BeThere.co.uk is 18 quid/month. 24down, 1.3 up unlimited.

Or even better, £22 for 24down 2.5up.

Blue Cypher said:
im sticking to cable myself as i may only get 4mb at the moment at a lot less than yours, but it is 4mb none of this "20mb but really is 5mb" lark so good luck to you getting what you pay for, but dont get too excited just yet at 24mb

It is not the providers fault that you live too far away from the exchange to get the advertised speed, they are still offering 24meg even if you are unable to sync at it. 99% of the ISP's make it very clear what factors will result in a slower speed.

.Griff. · 18 Mar 2008 at 12:54

A, Be* have been offering "24mbps" broadband for a couple of years now.
B, £35 a month is ridiculously expensive.
C, It obviously has to be a LLU supplier so I'm guessing your phone provider is TalkTalk (CPW)

yoda · 18 Mar 2008 at 12:56

TT / CPW are crap.... it's not with them....

wesley · 18 Mar 2008 at 12:57

up to 24meg broadband is old news. sorry

Blue Cypher · 18 Mar 2008 at 12:58

Trifid said:
Or even better, £22 for 24down 2.5up.

It is not the providers fault that you live too far away from the exchange to get the advertised speed, they are still offering 24meg even if you are unable to sync at it. 99% of the ISP's make it very clear what factors will result in a slower speed.

I wasnt having ago at the ISP's for not giving the speed they advertise, they just dont make it clear enough sometimes to your average joe home user. Sometimes they do but i have seen it many times where they let people buy it witout really explaining that they wont definately get that speed.
Also why dont they just up everything to optical fibre under ground like the rest of europe.....oh wait i forgot were in britain where they milk us for every penny we have!!

.Griff. · 18 Mar 2008 at 13:06

yoda said:
TT / CPW are crap.... it's not with them....

You might as well tell us. I wouldn't worry about them receiving a sudden influx of calls as the deal you've described is pretty pants (to use a technical term)

Daegan · 18 Mar 2008 at 13:17

Blue Cypher said:
Also why dont they just up everything to optical fibre under ground like the rest of europe.

The rest of Europe? Fibre accounts for less than 1% of consumer connections across Europe.

Blue Cypher · 18 Mar 2008 at 13:19

Daegan said:
The rest of Europe? Fibre accounts for less than 1% of consumer connections across Europe.

my apologises then, "why dont they do what other countries do to get very fast stable broadband"

Trifid · 18 Mar 2008 at 13:34

It's not cost effective so will not happen without a government grant.

yoda · 18 Mar 2008 at 13:40

The company is eze-talk aparently a lot of customers have been unsatisfied with talk talk and moving to them

TheVoice · 18 Mar 2008 at 13:42

Hopelessly expensive considering, as mentioned already, ISPs like Be are already doing the same thing for far cheaper.

oldbag · 18 Mar 2008 at 13:47

By the way, what is an LLU and does it link to capping?

yoda · 18 Mar 2008 at 13:51

LLU, Local Loop Unbundled.... IE none BT
Except, it's created by carphone wherehouse and a couple of other companies....

.Griff. · 18 Mar 2008 at 13:53

yoda said:
LLU, Local Loop Unbundled.... IE none BT
Except, it's created by carphone wherehouse and a couple of other companies....

What?!?! Have you any idea what you're talking about?

yoda · 18 Mar 2008 at 14:14

yep, i know too much about LLU...
BT have been forced to open their exchanges... carephone wherehouse / Talk Talk created a company called The Carephone Warehouse Networks ( www.cpwnetworks.com ) and they created and installed the equiptment now known as LLU.... it's what allows you to geth the 'free' broadband bundled onto your calls....

.Griff. · 18 Mar 2008 at 14:23

mdjmcnally · 18 Mar 2008 at 14:52

Blue Cypher said:
my apologises then, "why dont they do what other countries do to get very fast stable broadband"

BT Offered to do Fibre to the Home back when they were first sold off, however they said that to recoup the cost then they would have to be able to offer other services such as TV/Video Serving over the fibre cable to recoup the cost.

As the Cable licensese were just starting to be sold then the Goverment refused to grant them the ability to offer non-Voice services to the home. Sunsequently BT said not worth doing then. Cable would not have been able to compete with the coverage that BT had.

We could have started this 20 odd years ago if BT had been allowed to get on with it!

They certainly aren't going to go to the expense of digging up the copper and replacing with fibre if someone else such as Be or Sky can come along and say under LLU we want that cable. It just isn't cost effective to BT to do so.