2Mbps Broadband in every home by 2012

housesitter

Perhaps they should try asking:

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F23%2F1516247&from=rss

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/03/1738223


If this the way the govt are going to create a whole load of new jobs? Bringing call centres back to the UK and hiring "installation engineers" to staple cables to your skirting board ?

Snooze

purch wrote: »

I would have thought that most people would have been able to get at least 2meg.

There are only a few exchanges left in the country that are not ADSL enabled.

I live in the middle of nowhere up on Exmoor and I connect at 6.5/7 meg !!!!

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/regions.php

WADR, you're either

1. not getting "6.5/7 meg", or
2. you're not "in the middle of nowhere"

The 2 just don't go together. As 'Conflict' says, you must be within around 1.5 mile of the exchange if you're truly getting those speeds, which, as exchanges are usually in a town centre, means you can't be in the middle of nowhere.

--

Where I am in Huddersfield at the moment I can't even get broadband at all and this is very large estate. When I first moved here BT line checker thingy says 4 miles from exchange and max I could expect was 0.5 meg. I gave it a whirl as NTL had a very bad rep back then, but the connection was horrendous and there was that much noise on the line that it would've been quieter in a night club on a Saturday night :rolleyes: . I think the most I saw from it was 128 kb :rolleyes: . Thankfully NTL started to get their act together a bit and offered us the 'up to 20 meg' service round here and having now been on it for over 2 years I have no complaints at all; it's always well into double figures on the speed test sites. :j

Rob

SingleSue

"We know that every aspect of our lives in local communities - every school, every hospital, every workplace and even every home - will be dependent on the services that the digital network provides."

Gawd knows how my brother will cope then, he hasn't even got a television or land line telephone let alone broadband!

He does have a laptop though (got it second hand for £25) but uses it only to play DVD's.

ShimSham

I was hoping that by 2012 I would be able to get 24Mb. I suppose I will just have to continue to cope on my current 15Mb.

PasturesNew

I have Virgin Media ADSL and every time I have tested it it is ridiculously slow.

Just tested it again and I've got the fastest speed right now that I have ever ever had from them:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/123325406180942832483.html
I'm getting 2.5MBps out of an "up to 8MB" connection.

Every other time I've tested it over the last 18 months it's been about 1/10th of that. Must be a miracle.

mewbie_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm getting 2.5MBps out of an "up to 8MB" connection.

4.91 - pwned.

Pobby

Just hope we have a society/ economy by then ..... !!!!

Snooze

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have Virgin Media ADSL and every time I have tested it it is ridiculously slow.

Just tested it again and I've got the fastest speed right now that I have ever ever had from them:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/123325406180942832483.html
I'm getting 2.5MBps out of an "up to 8MB" connection.

Every other time I've tested it over the last 18 months it's been about 1/10th of that. Must be a miracle.

Trying using http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/. Speedtest.net has a bad reputation.

Rob

bo_drinker

My mother and many of her age will not want it nor interested in it. So it can't be everybody can it.

PasturesNew

bo_drinker wrote: »

My mother and many of her age will not want it nor interested in it. So it can't be everybody can it.

They don't mean everybody will have it, just everybody can have it if they want it.

Although there are still places in the UK not connected to mains electricity even!