drunkenfool
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/broadband/0,39020342,39146642,00.htm
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Icy
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bet thatl cost shit loads a month
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willay
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Gavin
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yeah would image that would cost 
but say if thre are four ppl in the house hold who have a few computers link to a home network....then it could be easily affordable 
pew pew pew pewwwww
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Demo
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i will wait til it comes down to about £15 per month cos i am such a cheapskate
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Nismo
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work now has a 100mb, had to download a 25mb last night and it took less than 2sec
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groom
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I have bulldg 512 :$
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Dan B
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They're having enough problems getting their 2Mbps products anywhere remotely near top-speed, I dread to think how they'll cope with a 20Mbps product! 
Although there's no way, if I was buying a product that fast, that I'd consider anything other than a Leased Line......SDSL is too much of a new product, and Leased Lines have a superb SLA (usually 2-4 hours fix-time, before you start getting compensation) if anything goes wrong.
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Dan B
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It'd also be nice if we had prices similar to Sweden, or even Japan (who late last year released a 100Mbps SDSL/LL service for round about £30 a month).
Nice one, BT!  You're crap!
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Pablo
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I want lol
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Dan B
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Don't we all!
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drunkenfool
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yeah why is broadband so expensive here? I would be more than satisfied with a 20mb SDSL line at home, as the uptime and 100% trasnfer speed isnt the imperative to me!
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Nismo
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Its because of the quality of the copper lines , they were never designed to transmit digital data down , hence the reason for Leased Lines (LLu) specific lines put in (optical fibre) that have no tel number associated just a CBuk Line code and can then transmit data upto 1Gb (cost dependent)m and also distance from exchange , japs can produce fibre optic lines far chaeper than we can and uin the uk its all about cost thats why 
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Dan B
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In other words, blame BT for keeping us in the Dark Ages, internet-wise! 
I remember an "Introduction to ADSL" lecture at my old work-place, that showed that out of 47 countries rated for ADSL-rollout (ie. the speed at which ADSL was introduced country-wide), the UK was rated 46th......marginally ahead of Slovenia.
In the same lecture, it was noted that in some European countries, rather than go through the lengthy process of ordering and testing lines for ADSL (which normally can take up to 2 weeks) that we do here, you just ring up your corresponding Telecomms company and ask, they make a slight-adjustment to your bill and pretty-much flick a switch to enable broadband. Makes you think, doesn't it, why exactly are we so far behind in terms of technology!
In my opinion, despite any rulings to say the contrary, it's because we've only had ONE telecomms company (BT) for so long that's hampered the UK. If we had six or seven, they'd all be racing each other to roll out new products in order to grab new customers from the competition. New companies are starting up now, providing base-line telephone services, but we're way WAY behind the majority of other countries.
[Edited on 28/02/2004 by Dan B]
[Edited on 28/02/2004 by Dan B]
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Nismo
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well 70% of the blame can be put on them as all other Telcops have to use most of BT's POP's but even who i work for we own the same ammount of Network as BT do but in firbe optic underground but its just to expensive to offer to consumer ,
each optic tuber has 150 fibre's and we use upto 100 customers on each fibre so we have more than enough from to run 70% of the UK on fibre but its just not cheap enough hence why its soley for buisness.
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drunkenfool
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I thought the max limit for the copper lines was VDSL @ 54mbps, but that is very distance limited. Ive had broadband for over 3 years now
[Edited on 28-02-2004 by drunkenfool]
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Bonzai
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who would ever actually maximise 20mbps thats stupid
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Nismo
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you would be supprised , we have 80+ machines on the 100Mb line and we hammer that allot
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Bonzai
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but it aint suitable for residential use is it
im on 600kbps and i rarely make full use of its potential, and even when i do, it aint always running optimum due to limitations from the source of downloads
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dj_mikey_k
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currently i am downloading @ 2059kbps i have a 2mb line
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