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Story: 100Mbps broadband a reality by 2007

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Well, I've been waiting for my upgrade for months now. My Uncle who lives just 5 miles away in Bristol has alreayd been upgraded, yet 2 months after he was, I'm still waiting.

100mb. It's possible. Might be a bit slow to roll out and there will almost certinaly be problems, but once they get the technology out and everyone becomes familiar with it (like we have with Broadband) I think it's going to be fine.

In responce to the person who can't get more than 500kb/s, it's not always possible to get more than that. Some web servers restrict the amount they send to one person at any one time, but that is easily overcome by using a download accelerator which connects several times to the same web server when downloading a file. I'd reccommend Xi Net Transport. Using that, I'd say you'd easily get 1MB/s. If not, then there's something wrong.

Blueyonder's upload speed sadly isn't great. You do need a certain amount of up speed in order to get the down speed. When opening a web page it's not just all downloading, your computer has to comunicate with the server, and this is where the upload speed comes into play. Blueyonder's is barely enough to support 10MB, and I'd say this is where things are going wrong.

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