Maybe, but not much, see article here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/12/broadband_britain_slowly_getti.html)
About what you'd expect, John. Unless someone spends some serious money, it's not going to get a lot faster, and that someone is unlikely to be BT at this time. :(
So true, Rik. :shake:
I think it's time some ISPs were told to remove the 'up to 8Mb' line from their advertising, particularly the ones who throttle speeds, as, to my mind, that's blatant deception.
I think it's only the ones that throttle that need to remove it, Simon, because it's factually correct otherwise.
I disagree, Sebby. When you factor in the profile, its only up to 7.15mb! (And even then there will be some overheads on top!)
I posted this before, but it must have been lost in the outage.
If you buy a pint of milk, you expect a pint, not what the cow might be able to deliver! ;D
:hehe:
Don't be silly, everyone knows that milk comes from bottles, not cows :D
That could have been a lot worse, John! ;D
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Quote from: Simon on Dec 15, 2008, 23:55:00
That could have been a lot worse, John! ;D
Udder rubbish.. ;D
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The other issue which is coming fast is capacity and bandwidth. With the BBC attempting to share the iPlayer with the other broadcasters, I can see bandwidth usage increasing quite sharply. That's going to show up a lot of ISPs, and it's also going to bring the 'unlimited' providers into the spotlight as they start putting the brakes on people.
Indeed - capacity is becoming a major issue.
A couple megabits down is frankly enough for me. What I *would* like is a couple megabits up though. There's SDSL of course, but I think that's a dying and somewhat awkwardly priced sector of the market, a bit like ISDN in the mid-90's.
I'm pretty sure the distribution system for popular P2P systems like iPlayer will have to be fundamentally altered to bias connections towards local sources to avoid a lot of expensive cross-network capacity issues.
ADSL2+, when BT deign to give it to us, will improve u/s speeds.
Do you know how it's going to work, Rik? I know that Be uploads syncs as high as it can, i.e. the upstream sync has a target SNRM too.
I'm not sure, Seb, but I know it's faster than IPStream, so it's likely to be similar (I wonder if you can trade upstream and downstream?).
On LLU, you can't. I wondered the same thing - why can't download use unused upstream frequencies? Maybe it can, but it's just not something that's done.
I suspect it's not 'convenient'. :(
Ah, the old convenience issue. I suspect you're right. ;)