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Geek Culture / 100mb Broadband to UK

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MSon
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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 15:40
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BT will be updating the network from around August to fiber as it says in the link below, all new premesis from that date will hopefully also be installed via fiber.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/10/btgroupbusiness.internet?gusrc=rss&feed=technology

The prices sound reasonable, Lucky Kent will be one of the first to be updated as it was last time, although hopfully Manchester won't be too far behind

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 15:48
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oooooooh, that's good, hopefully they'll do it to rural locations like this one - we're on BT, so perhaps an upgrade would be cool.

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GatorHex
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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 15:52 Edited at: 10th Jan 2008 16:16
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Finally maybe they have woken up to the threat of Britain being DDOS attacked to death. I did write to the PM about it last year

I would move to Kent if 100mb was available

Knowing BT though it won't be unlimited and they'll probably stick Elcoya on it and limit your bandwidth to 20Gbpm

I was surprised the average speed in the UK was just 4.2mbps

By the way Virgin Media already have cable plummed into Manchester homes they are just not letting us use it at sensible speed/prices so I went with Be Unlimited for half the price



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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 18:52
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We've had 100 Mb/s broadband in Sweden for years. I got it in my flat (well, it only goes up to 76 Mb/s IIRC) right now. Once I downloaded a file at over 3 MB/s (24 Mb/s) thanks to the wonders of Bit Torrent.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 19:24
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I've always found BitTorrent to be horrendously slow, rarely giving speeds above 3kb/s. Probably living in a rural area, though, with 2mbps.


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Benjamin
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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 19:32
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Quote: "I've always found BitTorrent to be horrendously slow, rarely giving speeds above 3kb/s."

You probably haven't set up your router for it then. I get similar speeds when the necessary port isn't forwarded.

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Blood Of The Prophets
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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 19:34 Edited at: 10th Jan 2008 19:35
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@Nex: It still shouldn't be that slow your router or firewall probably wasn't forwarded properly. When downloading America's Army patches I normally get 70kb/s +

Edit: Dam Benjamin you beat me
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lagmaster
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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 19:39
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it will take BT till 2012 to fibre the entire country.

before that happens virgin media will beat them to it.

they announced end of this year 50mbits will come.

BT has a lot of catching up to do, considering some customers cant even get 1mbits or even a connection.

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Samoz83
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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 20:29
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kent first how silly they should of done surrey much better idea

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 20:40
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I've tried forwarding ports with the two router setup I have, and it's a nightmare.

BT Voyager 220V -> TP-Link £12 Wifi Router -> My PC


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Chenak
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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 22:55
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BT are aweful, took them 4 months for them to upgrade our connection to 8MB. In the end we threatened to disconnect our connection and refuse the pay them further because they started charging for the 8mb connection on the word go.

They immediately blamed our distance from the exchange, saying we were too far away from the exchange to get the full advantage of the 8mb service. We kindly informed them that we were literally across the road from the exchange and informed them where to stick it if they dont give us nice compensation. We now have 8mb connection with unlimited usage, go us Turned out they didn't plug it in on there end -.-

Still trying to find a better ISP though O.o Fibrewire should have been installed in this country ages ago, what the hell took them so long? o.o Isn't fibrewire about 8 years old now? I know was being used mainstream in Hong Kong for their insane internet speeds, now they have something nicer I think, will be 20years before we get to see something that nice *shakes fist at BT*
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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 23:57
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Quote: "I've always found BitTorrent to be horrendously slow, rarely giving speeds above 3kb/s. Probably living in a rural area, though, with 2mbps."


If you try a program like Azureus (best bit torrent client) it can check your firewall. Bit torrent is always faster then direct download unless you can download from somewhere/someone with a lot of bandwidth available to only you. With bit torrent you can download from many others who are also downloading the same file, simultaneously. As long as there are others to download from, otherwise it might get slow.

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