24 meg broadband

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August 31st, 2005, 01:59 PM
jinxy

24 meg broadband

For £20.00 a month. Unbelieveable.

Quote:

from here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/31/be_broadband/

Londoners are being offered the chance to hook up to superfast broadband for just £20 a month as part of a trial for local loop unbundling (LLU) by operator Be.

The ISP wants "as many people as possible" to sign up to the trial ahead of a commercial launch later in the month. The service - based on ADSL2+ technology - is able to deliver speeds of up to 24 meg.

In the last 12 months my ISP (Tiscali) has upped my speed from 512 kbps to 1 meg and now 2 meg and the price has come down. :cool:

Would be interesting to see what everyone elses net link is like.
August 31st, 2005, 02:04 PM
Aspman

I'm on PAYG broadband 1Mb with Metronet. The exchange has 2Mb max at the moment.
August 31st, 2005, 05:10 PM
UAnimosity

Unless im mistaken london is home to the largest ipx in the world, makes sense that they can up their speeds dramatically. especailly with all the people in the rural areas, they can have a lot of happy customers.
August 31st, 2005, 05:38 PM
foxyloxley

Although they do not advertise it .........
the cable companies that have been covering the UK for quite some time now, with cable TV / phone / web access, are all massively under used.

the set speed of 512kB was what the market had been told to expect, so that's what they got.

Cable COULD go to 10MB across the country any time

ME:
I'm using BT as the carrier, stuck at the 'basic' broadband speed of 512kB, and, for me at this location, the free upgrade to 1MB is NOT an option yet :(
August 31st, 2005, 05:47 PM
jinxy

I thought IPX was a protocal.............................As opposed to some tangeable thing?

I'm not flaming you but do I detect a little envy of us Europeans advancing in this field, whilst the USA lags behind?
August 31st, 2005, 06:33 PM
hesperus

I use a small local reseller and get 3MB for about $25 Cdn (prepaid for six month, more month to month) along with exceptional service. 4MB is available from the same company, but at almost twice the price. From Bell Sympatico, the major Telco, the same service is ten dollars more per month (for the first twelve months -- in other words, it will go up . . .). Their max is 5MB. I have yet to find a better deal around here.
August 31st, 2005, 06:51 PM
Agent_Steal

What reseller would that be hesperus ? Sounds like a good deal ....

P.S. My current provider is Netscape and I pay [ I mean my older brother ] about $21 for a stinking dial-up. But since were going to be purchasing a new comp were looking forward to upgrading to a faster connection ... Jeesh I feel like a tortoise compare to you guys ... Slow down and let me catch up ....
August 31st, 2005, 07:17 PM
UAnimosity

Forgive the typo i, ment London INX For internet Exchange not ipx the protocol. Im also not american, im canadian. And cable speeds where im at are around 5-6mbps Using shaw, and i believe roadrunner in the states can go anywhere from 4-8.

So North America isnt lagging behind by much, and i really dont need any more then my 2.5mbps dsl.
August 31st, 2005, 07:31 PM
Aspman

We're all behind South Korea. 100Mb to your house on offer there.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GH30Dg01.html
August 31st, 2005, 07:31 PM
hesperus

Quote:

What reseller would that be hesperus ?

csolve.net. Well recommended.
August 31st, 2005, 07:35 PM
jinxy

Quote:

So North America isnt lagging behind by much, and i really dont need any more then my 2.5mbps dsl.

You have my apolagies.........................I actualy looked and saw Calgary, which I new to be in Canada. But still jumped to the conclusion you were from USA. Some times the speed my brain works at amazes me :rolleyes:

My sister uses cable and it realy sux compared to my DSL. She has a 1 Meg package but suffers from awfull lag when playing on line games at high usage times.
August 31st, 2005, 08:22 PM
UAnimosity

im on some studtent chepo dsl, so it actually ranges from1.4-2.3mbps, depending on how well the company is doing that day. i prefer dsl over cable, just because i like consistancy with my connection, and that i dont have to depend on downloading late at night to get the files i need.
August 31st, 2005, 08:39 PM
The Grunt

I have 1/2000th of a T3 connection :P

It's free and much faster than my dial up at home. Sucks when everyone gets on though...
September 1st, 2005, 12:38 AM
Lv4

hrm, my cable connection was recently upgraded to 6mb and I thought that was impressive :)

/can't wait until gigabit to the home becomes a standard
September 1st, 2005, 08:27 AM
Noia

I can not see gigabit-to-your-home being a standard anytime soon, a gb is still ALOT of data. Then again, a man once said 64k would be enough for any one.

Hey, hey 16k, what does that get you today? you need more than that for a letter, old school ram-packs are much better... :D