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Also, is he very lucky to have a connection like that. I.e. is it experimental like that woman over here with BT ftth, or is it pretty common over there?
Would do bad things for a connection of that speed!
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Go back, read the thread, there are ample explanation by now as to why this is the case. Are you prepared to pay £75+ a month for that sort of connection speed here? (and only if you live in a city) No? - then shut the hell up.
For the third/fourth/fifth time, it isn't that nobody can be bothered making broadband faster, it's that it would be massively expensive to do so. The government isn't going to hand out the money to pay for it and consumers aren't prepared to pay for it. ISPs aren't charities. What do you want to happen? The magical broadband fairy to fix it all?
It's the sort of thing that the government should be prepared to invest in. Other countries having high penetration of fibre connections is going to result in applications that can make use of them. This is not exactly a new concept in computing. It's inevitable that there will be the demand for FTTH connections, the problem is that, when left to the market, by the time the capability arrives we will be way behind the curve.
On the scale of national infrastructure investments it's not even that expensive. IIRC the figure was around £20Billion ... so around £1000 per household. Considering that once in place it needs very little maintenance and aught to last at least 25 years It's the equivalent of £3.33 per household per month.
Compared to other national infrastructure investments, like High Speed Rail or motorways, FTTH is pocket change.
On the scale of national infrastructure investments it's not even that expensive. IIRC the figure was around £20Billion ... so around £1000 per household. Considering that once in place it needs very little maintenance and aught to last at least 25 years It's the equivalent of £3.33 per household per month.
Compared to other national infrastructure investments, like High Speed Rail or motorways, FTTH is pocket change.
It is threads like this that remind me why i get so fed up trying to do anything at home. My BT ADSL line (no VM coverage) peaks at 6Mbps.
Within the Cambridge network speed varies quite a bit depending where you are on the network.
Tonight from my room:
But i have had tests reach 200Mbps d/l 100Mbps upload
Most universities have speeds of this order of magnitude as part of JANET as I understand it.
Within the Cambridge network speed varies quite a bit depending where you are on the network.
Tonight from my room:
But i have had tests reach 200Mbps d/l 100Mbps upload
Most universities have speeds of this order of magnitude as part of JANET as I understand it.
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I dont think there is a need to be telling me to shut the hell up, who do you think you are,my mother? and yes I would pay for that connection.
My Estonian friend has come back with something truly amazing.
Not his line, but a friend of his who has this. The latest in Estonia. O.M.G.
His friends equipment in his flat cannot cope, as the connection should be '1Gbit'.
True gigabit speeds over the internet are pretty hard to achieve and often limited by the storage speed, etc. I had an uncontended gigabit server with a good UK host for awhile and never really managed to hit more than 400MBit/s throughput max.
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Update. Still no word from the 1Gbit line but my friend in my first post who gets this -
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I pay 23.7 EUR/month (£ 20,4), it is actually special offer for 2 years. After that I will pay 30 EUR (£ 25.8). For this I get internet 100Mbit/down; 20Mbit/up, 70 TV channels via IP-TV, phone.
8.5GB full HD movie will take about 15 min to download.
Pays - (quoted)
I pay 23.7 EUR/month (£ 20,4), it is actually special offer for 2 years. After that I will pay 30 EUR (£ 25.8). For this I get internet 100Mbit/down; 20Mbit/up, 70 TV channels via IP-TV, phone.
8.5GB full HD movie will take about 15 min to download.
Update. Still no word from the 1Gbit line but my friend in my first post who gets this -
Pays - (quoted)
I pay 23.7 EUR/month (£ 20,4), it is actually special offer for 2 years. After that I will pay 30 EUR (£ 25.8). For this I get internet 100Mbit/down; 20Mbit/up, 70 TV channels via IP-TV, phone.
8.5GB full HD movie will take about 15 min to download.
How is it possible (no offence) that Estonia's internet connection absolutley wipes our connections to the floor and back.... and for such a cheap price.
Really is rip of Britain, its a joke.
Grass is always greener...
Because we paid for it, well maybe more Germany than us.
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Actually not as much as I thought. Although it was probably higher when it first joined.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8036097.stm#start
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Your host sucks.
Who do you use?
Rapidswitch, they've been pretty decent - always had full 10.9MByte/s up/down available any time I've tested on my 100Mbit boxes, aside from internal transfers tho never got more than 400Mbit/s (with multiple users connected).
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Is wireless not more likely to provide a long-term solution than re-wiring the entire UK?
Surely they can eventually come up with something that will allow ultra fast wireless broadband nationally?
Surely they can eventually come up with something that will allow ultra fast wireless broadband nationally?
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Does anyone remember being on dial up?, and having access to the 0800 numbers leaked out with user/passes. Free Dial up lol
lol yeah. On rare occasions I'd connect @ 128k with both my isdn lines. Dodgy as heck.....and having to reconnect every hour or two or whatever...awful!