4MB Broadband

[Danial]

Bulldog, part of Cable & Wireless is doing 4MB Broadband for around £20. Has anyone here tried it? I am thinking of switching(2MB from BT) but they dont have it in my area yet. Just thought i will ask if anyone else heard about it.

Thanks.

[MrPolite]

Bulldog, part of Cable & Wireless is doing 4MB Broadband for around £20. Has anyone here tried it? I am thinking of switching(2MB from BT) but they dont have it in my area yet. Just thought i will ask if anyone else heard about it.

Thanks.

aah you guys in europe is that 4 mega BYTES? cuz I have a 5M bit connection and it doesnt seem fast

[Danial]

aah you guys in europe is that 4 mega BYTES? cuz I have a 5M bit connection and it doesnt seem fast

Yes you are right its Mbps rather then MB. Well until very recently the fastest Broadband connection you could get for personal use was 1Mbps. Within the past few months the speed has gone up from 512Kbps to 2Mbps, and I didnt have to pay anything extra! Shows what competition does for customer.

[MrPolite]

Yes you are right its Mbps rather then MB. Well until very recently the fastest Broadband connection you could get for personal use was 1Mbps. Within the past few months the speed has gone up from 512Kbps to 2Mbps, and I didnt have to pay anything extra! Shows what competition does for customer.

haha thats good. Competition is good. I'm in the U.S., mine was 3Mbps recently and it jumped to 5Mbps without extra costs not bad, but the upload is really slow only 45kBps

[Juan Carlos Rey]

Do you guys in Europe, use metric megabits or imperial megabits?
How big are they compared to metrics?

[MrPolite]

Do you guys in Europe, use metric megabits or imperial megabits?
How big are they compared to metrics?

ROFL actually those guys in europe were wise enough to switch to metric. Dumb americans still want to stick with imperial

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Yes you are right its Mbps rather then MB. Well until very recently the fastest Broadband connection you could get for personal use was 1Mbps. Within the past few months the speed has gone up from 512Kbps to 2Mbps, and I didnt have to pay anything extra! Shows what competition does for customer.

They told us a few years back that our 100 year old copper phone cables wouldn't be able to take anything about 512Kbps. I smell a conspiricy.

[wossname]

They told us a few years back that our 100 year old copper phone cables wouldn't be able to take anything about 512Kbps. I smell a conspiricy.

Alexander Graham Bell was obviously in financial collusion with AT&T.

[Dillinger4]

Yeah America better get with it. I don't see why i have to be forced to do conversions. If they don't want to switch then let them do the conversions.

[dglienna]

All the car mfg's have been forced to put both speeds on the speedometers for the past 20 years or so, and I have only seen 2 k/ph signs in my life, and they are outside the international airports. Just what we need, someone seeing 80 k/ph and trying to do 80 mph !

[Ecniv]

Cable doubled their speeds last year... or was it 1.5 times ...? It was only on the download part though.

Read somewhere :
8mbps were available (prolly only in london though).
4mbps on available exchanges (which I don't get access to) for bt adsl (i'm with pipex atm and the most they reckoned I could have was 1 mbps and that would be struggling.)


Question:
If the 4/8mbps is available would you switch and if the price was still 30-40 ukp per month??
What are you going to download (legally I mean)?
Are they going like certain ISPs and disable P2P or impose maximum download limits?

I'm almost wondering if the 512kps connection I am using is worth the money I'm paying :/
Example:
Wake up and use for 30 mins in the morning before going to work.
Work + travel takes up hmmm 10hrs ish
Eat, clean up and poss watch tv for a while 2hrs
Use net for surfing, playing games for 2hrs
Sleep

So thats like 2.5 hrs per day when I'm paying for 24hrs per day (assuming no breakdowns at bt or anything )
Pay as you go broadband on its way but prices are crap.

Sigh

Sorry to waffle

[wossname]

The internet access should be free. Councils don't charge you to use libraries!

I can barely afford my PAYG dial up

Phone companies have us all over a barrel and they are laughing their arses off.

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The internet access should be free. Councils don't charge you to use libraries!

I can barely afford my PAYG dial up

Phone companies have us all over a barrel and they are laughing their arses off.

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