Fastest internet connection?

You guys think you have it bad, try living in Hull.

It's the only area in the UK that never joined BT and as such there is 1 ISP and it is a monopoly. They don't upgrade anything.

Between 3-5am I get between 12-15Mbps, and for every other time in the day I get this:


Which is actually better than usual! Usually I get 0.4Mbps download speed. Google actually takes time to load, as do most websites. It's absolutely ridiculous.

From wikipedia:
On 22 August 1902, Hull Corporation (which later became Hull City Council) was granted a licence under the Telegraph Act 1899 to operate a municipal telephone system in the Kingston upon Hull area, opening its first telephone exchange in 1904 at the former Trippett Street Baths.[4]
At the time, there were a number of such municipal telephone companies around the UK, all of which – with the exception of the one in Hull – were gradually absorbed into the Post Office Telephone department, which was subsequently to become British Telecom (BT).
Hull's bid to renew its licence in 1914 was made conditional on the £192,000 purchase of National Telephone Company infrastructure in the city. The council gave its approval, securing the future of the country's only remaining municipally owned telephone corporation.[4]
Hull has therefore remained an exception within the UK telephone network, being the only place in the UK not served by BT and is noted for its distinctive cream coloured telephone boxes and innovative services, for example becoming the UK's first fully digital network in 1989[4] using Marconi System X telephone switches (Central Offices or Class 5 switches).
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As residents and most businesses in Hull are served only with telecoms services by KC, some service users are unhappy with the monopoly position KC has in the Hull area.
The main concern is that of Internet service provision; KC's Karoo service is the only residential broadband operator in the Hull area. According to a decision from the European Commission in 2004, KCOM Group PLC (“Kingston”) have a 100% market share in the wholesale market of broadband services in the Hull area.[10] Considerations include concerns over KC's acceptable use policy, the cost of the service and the inability to use other providers.
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Mason- said:
You guys think you have it bad, try living in Hull.

It's the only area in the UK that never joined BT and as such there is 1 ISP and it is a monopoly. They don't upgrade anything.

Between 3-5am I get between 12-15Mbps, and for every other time in the day I get this:


Which is actually better than usual! Usually I get 0.4Mbps download speed. Google actually takes time to load, as do most websites. It's absolutely ridiculous.

From wikipedia:
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Back when I was a student there it was actually not too bad and it was one of the first to roll out broadband if i recall correctly.

It seems that things haven't moved on since then though :(
 
OP is asking about corporate backbones rather than consumer stuff.

Mbit values are nothing really, consumer stuff is now in the Gbit values, Jersey is rolling out 1Gbit down 100Mbit Up home connections so the huge corporate/data center stuff will be in the 10s if not 100s of Gbit/s. As for what the fastest single connection out to the open Web is... Probably someone like Google.
 
Sin_Chase said:
OP is asking about corporate backbones rather than consumer stuff.

Mbit values are nothing really, consumer stuff is now in the Gbit values, Jersey is rolling out 1Gbit down 100Mbit Up home connections so the huge corporate/data center stuff will be in the 10s if not 100s of Gbit/s. As for what the fastest single connection out to the open Web is... Probably someone like Google.
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You probably asked the question way better than me! That was exactly my point. If Joe Bloggs can sign up to 1Gbps today then the internet connections that the likes of Google, Apple and Microsoft have in their HQ must be insane! :eek:

My limited Google skills are revealing very little information on the subject though. :(

Here's an example of consumer internet available now a days.

http://youtu.be/vXj55wNpWpM
 
Tunney said:
There's a company in the UK called Hyper Optic offering 1Gbps. I've had quite a few leaflets for them through the door. They're offering to run fibre to everyone in out block if enough people sign up.
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Persuade everyone after they've signed not to change, then change yourself and have the line to yourself instead of sharing it with 50 people :)
 
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