- UK broadband is slow and costly: slowest and most expensive broadband connections in the world.
- Posted by PhilT on July 18th, 2007
On 17 Jul, 10:56, Billy <geo...@dragonsheed.ac.uk> wrote:
there are some flaws in the report, not least that the reported US
price is very low - your local cable monopoly would want $29.95 for
RoadRunner high speed internet, on top of the cable TV charge, and
that's just the introductory price for the first few months after
which is would be $39.95. So many consumers would not recognise the
$15.93 quoted for the USA.
The OECD prices are not the average as the Telegraph says but are
"entry level products" for example the Swedish one is 256k.
In the UK our DSL services are without doubt faster than those in the
USA, more widely available and with more choice (some choice !) of
service provider.
Sure, we don't have the fibre services available in parts of the US
and parts of Japan, so we can't claim any 100M services, but 10M cable
is available to 45% of the population and a similar proportion if not
more have ADSL2+ services available at over 8M.
Depends how you want to spin it really. Wallowing in self pity seems
to be a national trait. Doing something about it doesn't.
Phil
- Posted by Bob Eager on July 18th, 2007
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:56:16 UTC, PhilT <newsnet@gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed. I have a friend in Los Angeles who has had dreadful trouble
getting DSL up and running. He had little choice of supplier (one
alternative that wasn't really viable). The 'phone company' was the only
real choice.
He's had problems getting it set up, then further problems with the
service. It is quite clear that tech support is lacking (he is a tech
person himself, having been involved in quite a few Internet RFCs, etc.
including the 'real' RFC666!). The problems are the usual ones of trying
to brush the customer off with gobbledegook (didn't work!) and a just
plain unreliable service.
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- Posted by Eeyore on July 18th, 2007
PhilT wrote:
You hit the nail on the head.
I sync @ 8128 kbps on a BT line and last night's speed test at
thinkbroadband.com gave a result of 6800kbps ( 95% of the maximum theoretically
possible ).
Graham
- Posted by TrentSC on July 18th, 2007
83%, but it's still a very good figure when compared to what a lot of other
countries offer.
- Posted by Eeyore on July 18th, 2007
TrentSC wrote:
No, it's 95%.
You can sync @ 8128 but the max possible connection speed is 7150 kbps. I'd say
it's misleading to describe AdslMax as an 8 meg service since it can never
deliver an actual 8 meg download.
Graham
