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Story: UK vents spleen at broadband frustrations

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Posted by: JamesMichell (Monday 28 January 2008, 1:24 PM)

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PlusNet is one of the best.....

.....even though its now owned by BT. But concentrating on pure download speed is probabaly misleading. Your enjoyment of just surfing the web is going to be just as dependent on the the speed of your own computer, the speed at which the server you are trying to contact replies and the routing that the request and reply takes. In other words thaere is a lot of potential latency built into the system which is more frustrating than simply a slow download speed. Its only when you actually download a file of any size that the difference betwen 512Kb and, say 2Mb becomes really obvious.

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