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Story: BT pushes broadband up to 8Mbps

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Posted by: Chris Rankin (Monday 6 March 2006, 1:55 PM)

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How close are you to an exchange? If you're beyond a certain distance then I don't think you could ever get 2 Mbps using existing ADSL. Your options would therefore be:

a) Switch to cable, or
b) Downgrade to a 1 Mbps service and save yourself some money.

(I suppose you have already checked for sneaky spyware applications that could be stealing the "missing" 1 Mbps? Or perhaps you have a USB v1.1 ADSL modem, and lots of other USB toys sharing the bandwidth on the USB bus? BT couldn't do anything about those things either.)

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