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Geek Culture / 24 Meg Broadband in the UK within weeks

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BatVink
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Posted: 21st Jul 2005 21:38 Edited at: 21st Jul 2005 21:39
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I was reading that ADSL2 is imminent, with speeds of up to 24Mbs. This will be for those very close to an exchange, but anyone with ADSL2 should get at least 10Mbs.

I found one related article here - http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/broadband/0,39020342,39207115,00.htm.

I have benefitted from "real" broadband for a few years, via fibre-optic cable. Like for like it's faster, due to less noise and errors, and it has always been one step ahead. Now it looks like I will either be way behind, or my ISP will uncap the service and reveal that we could have had massive speed boosts all along

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2005 00:11 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2005 00:12
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At last, a decent speed-up...
But only in London

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spooky
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2005 01:13
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Also, according to http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/21/be_broadband/ it will be under £30. What is annoying is that I'm moving house out of London next month back to my home town in Essex and will be stuck with boring old 2MB ADSL like now.


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BatVink
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2005 01:23
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You will still get good speed increases outside of London, at least 10 meg.

The capital is used as an example, simply because the density of exchanges means it will cover most of the city.

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2005 02:37
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Lol, broadband only became available to me yesterday, and that's a maximum of 1 meg.

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BatVink
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2005 19:16
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You live in Yorkshire though like me, Soapy. A village a few miles from me refused to let Telewest in to lay down their cables. They met tham at the village border, no doubt with Pitch Forks in hand.

I'm a forward looking guy in backward looking county.

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2005 20:23
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I've just gotten 2 meg broadband upgrade from BT and I'm not complaining.

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2005 21:58
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And I have got brand new ISDN line with 128kb/s(really about 14kbs)Anyone whants to change
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Neofish
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2005 22:02
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I still have 512Kb/s, which is good enough but I would love so much faster doubt i'll get it though

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geecee3
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2005 22:26
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demon just informed me, that I'll be getting a free 2Mb upgrade before september. YEAH!! however there may be a 4 minute down time on my connection when the UG takes place. I can live with that LOL.

cheers demon, grant.

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2005 22:43
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Well NTL kindly upgraded all their customers a month or so back..
128kb > 1Mb
600kb > 2Mb
1Mb > 3Mb

I assume they're preparing their network for phase two... double those values

I cant wait for the world to be on a LAN Although the problem is, the faster the internet goes, the more poeple use P2P software and then the slower the internet goes. I can honestly see a future of us having 100Mb connections but only being able to download at 10kb/s because the switches and routers around the world are being overloaded!

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BatVink
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2005 22:44
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Everyone using ADSL should have 2Mb broadband, it's the standard wholesale offering from BT. If your ISP isn't giving it to you, you are being duped!

I'm at 1.5 Mb via cable, no signs of any free upgrades at the moment

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2005 22:48
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Quote: "Well NTL kindly upgraded all their customers a month or so back.."


Did you know that part of the upgrade was a change in the contract? They have now capped the monthly download capability. Not very well publicised.

Quote: "the more poeple use P2P software"


Apparently P2P is one reason for capping the download quota. It helps the ISPs protect themselves against the big offenders using their network. There's also rumours that governments and other parties with a vested interest in anti-piracy are trying to push limited download quotas for the same reason.

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Dot Merix
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2005 16:33
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Yeah, the speed here got bumped up aswell from 5.0mbps, to 7.0mbps...

http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Internet/ShawHighSpeedXtremeI/



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Posted: 25th Jul 2005 04:07
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I've had 2Mb ADSL for over two years now - quite a bit before most people I would like 4 or 8 Mb at least now though...

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