anyone here not got broadband?

cm1179 · 15 Jul 2010 at 13:32

just seen an item on BBC news about a farmer in a town north of swansea and i heard a dial up tone for the first time in probably 8 years. felt for the bloke, saying how his business is getting left behind because bt wont install the required equipment to supply broadband. they showed a couple 20 minutes down the road in swansea enjoying 20 meg speed with an option for 50 meg :eek:

what really peeved me, is that a bt spokesman at the end of the feature said that they (bt) would need atleast 1 billion, possibly 2 billion of public funding to get everyone onto a minimum of 2 meg broadband. why should this come from public funding, when bt have raked in billions from equipment installed decades ago?
as a side note, the chap from swansea who had 20 meg capability, explained how easy it was to 'pull a film down or music' is talking of this kind of activity not such a no no these days?

FTM · 15 Jul 2010 at 13:33

me, I post by telepathy!

LiamC · 15 Jul 2010 at 13:34

abit OT but i remember years ago when i first tryed to Download a movie. It was not far off 100MB and took me ~15hours to download

antijoke · 15 Jul 2010 at 13:37

cm1179 said:
as a side note, the chap from swansea who had 20 meg capability, explained how easy it was to 'pull a film down or music' is talking of this kind of activity not such a no no these days?

Well no, he could be downloading films/music from a legal source.

a1ex2001 · 15 Jul 2010 at 13:38

The simple reason it should be public funded is that BT have no compelling business reason to install the equipment, they will never recoup the costs so why would a private business install the lines?

shadow_boxer · 15 Jul 2010 at 13:44

No broadband here, posting from my phone.

MickeyFinns · 15 Jul 2010 at 13:45

Not even a landline here,

Live in the centre of Hove.

Sone · 15 Jul 2010 at 13:45

shadow_boxer said:
No broadband here, posting from my phone.

still on GPRS, i feel for you

Repta · 15 Jul 2010 at 13:58

I basically dont, supposed to but im lucky if i get over 100kb/s. Got battlefield bc2 downloading an update at 1.7kb/s. fun times

Sp00n · 15 Jul 2010 at 14:04

I heard a dial-up tone this morning on one of this link cashpoint machines, I was reminiscing whilst withdrawing.

Westyfield2 · 15 Jul 2010 at 14:19

13MB is all I get

.

Well I guess my iPhone is never broadband..... <3 O2 :mad:

apatia77 · 15 Jul 2010 at 14:21

At lest you can get mobile broadband nowadays if you live in an area that is covered.

Duke · 15 Jul 2010 at 14:24

Get one or two customers a year on dial up still. They just don't want to either pay for broadband or just don't realise the difference. I've managed to get each one on there though

When I speak to them a few months later, they are using it much more and enjoy it more.

bledd · 15 Jul 2010 at 14:24

On 512kb here, it fluctuates up to about 890kb

Ping is stable though, that's all I really care about now..

It was a big shock going back to 512 after having 50mb virgin for 3 years

apatia77 · 15 Jul 2010 at 14:28

Still though 512kb is heaven compared to dial up.

When I was on dial up temporary for 6 months about 5 years ago and only visited OcUK forums as anything else would just take too long to load up. Any posts with pictures or youtube etc were a no go though.

eddiemcgarrigle · 15 Jul 2010 at 15:18

Blooming broadband disappears between peak times in my house. BT are throttling the line and Sky claim they can't do anything to help.

hux · 15 Jul 2010 at 15:21

Should have gone for the max package.

You're using easynet then.

Nikumba · 15 Jul 2010 at 15:37

BT have said it needs to come from public funding because the government has stated they want 2mb broadband rolled out to the country within the next few years.

So why should BT pay for something the government has set out to do?

Kimbie

Fr0dders · 15 Jul 2010 at 15:41

cm1179 said:
as a side note, the chap from swansea who had 20 meg capability, explained how easy it was to 'pull a film down or music' is talking of this kind of activity not such a no no these days?

depends

I have 50mb virgin media cable, downloading legal music from itunes is instantaneous and is brilliant. You dont even have to download it. just double click, into your library it goes, your 99p worse off and its completely legal.

Likewise you can do the same from itunes and other sournces to legally download movies incredibly quickly.

Its great for downloading legal games from steam too. I recently changed from PC to Mac and re-donwloaded all the Halflife games i have in Mac format. Didnt take long because they all downloaded at 5.5 MB (thats Megabyte not Bit) per second.

It used to be the case that downloading movies and music could only be done illegally, hence talk of it was frowned upon. However there are numerous legal methods so unless you start specificly referring to file sharing methods, or referring to films that arent available yet, you can assume that person is referring to legal methods.