Mislead for speed
Blog OK, so we all know that paying for an "8Mbps" broadband connection will not, in all likelihood, get you 8Mbps (due to a variety of reasons, not all the ISPs' fault). But it is a point worth driving home, just in case we get desensitised to the idea...
[June 22, 2007, 12:03]
Broadband Customers Overpaying By 70%
Blog UK customers are paying 70% more than they need to for their broadband connections despite the credit crunch. Masses of broadband customers (70,000 in fact) on 8Mbps broadband packages have been interrogated by Broadband Expert to find out how much...
[September 26, 2008, 14:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thursday 2/3/2006 Tada! says BT. Look! DSL Max! Vrrooooom! We can make DSL go as fast as 8Mbps! Rupert thinks about this. How does that differ from the DSL you put into my flat in 1998 during the trials?
[March 3, 2006, 17:00]
Bye bye ISDN
Blog So BT is to stop selling ISDN to home workers. I have to say it's been a long time coming, with broadband take-up now at over 10million homes. Let's think: ADSL 8Mbps (or pretending to be). ISDN 64Kbps.
[April 10, 2007, 17:48]
Brits Are Broadband Speed Junkies
Blog Back in February I blogged that UK-based broadband users are being fobbed off with vastly under-performing services - the average speed in the UK at that time was a pitiful 2.95Mbps. A few months on and things haven’t got any better, and there are...
[April 28, 2008, 12:03]
BT, broadband and electromagnetic noise
Blog Just been to a BT Wholesale showcase down near Gatwick, where they've been showing off some of the new tools for their ISP clients that will come along with 21CN. The basic gist of it is that it'll supposedly be much easier for ISPs to be able to...
[March 12, 2008, 15:51]
How to check up on your ISP
Blog I’m sure most of us here in the UK have worked out that 5pm in Britain is the same as 9am in Silicon Valley and that’s why the web sometimes just seems to plod along at that chosen hour. Millions of British school kids have started to play online...
[September 23, 2007, 14:39]
