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"Freeola Broadband Price Cuts & New 2 Mb Home Services"

New Prices For Freeola Broadband Effective 1st March 2005

Price Cuts:

Freeola Broadband 512K Uncapped - £24.99 (-£2)
Freeola Broadband 1 Mb 10 GB Cap - £25.99 (-£1)
Freeola Broadband 1 Mb Uncapped - £29.99 (-£5)

New Products:

Freeola Broadband 2 Mb* 3 GB Cap - £26.99
Freeola Broadband 2 Mb* 10 GB Cap - £29.99
Freeola Broadband 2 Mb* Uncapped - £34.99
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* This is a new 'HOME' grade service. Existing 2 Mb customers are on 'OFFICE' grade connections which are charged at a higher rate. However, it is possible to change tariffs for a nominal fee - see Your Freeola Settings for more details.

The tariff change scripts do a basic check and stop some lines but the only real way to test is to put through the order. If it fails, you'll be put back to the old service at no cost to you.

Thanks Danny - I look forward to April, when I think we should be flying through the web at 2mb (hopefully!) unless my bank balance (or the phone line) disagrees, in which case we'll just be cruising at the same speed as we are now :-)

Bonnie,

Just clarification regarding tariff change charges - if you change cap levels it's free, but if you change speed, it is chargeable at £19.99 (a one-off cost that includes VAT).

Regards,
Danny

Yes, I realised that - why do you think I'm chatting up the boss ;-)

Well of course, that's perfectly acceptable.

Bonnie wrote:
> Yes, I realised that - why do you think I'm chatting up the boss ;-)

Ok this may or may not seem a cazy question? but am going to ask it anyway! because I do not care if am mocked :-) Is there a limit as to how much information your computer can take in at a time? i.e to clarify what am trying to say, on dial up we were waiting for pages to load up, now on Broadband 1mb they are loaded really quick (like changing channel on the telly) at what point would a PC struggle to take on all the info that say a 4mb connection would throw at it?

Kev

Depends on a few things. In simple terms, if you are just downloading a file, then you are limited pretty well by the speed of the write speed to the hard drive, and the speed of the connection - obviously the connection speed is nearly always the bottleneck - certainly for any consumer hardware.

In terms of web browsing though, the HTML code is parsed by the web browser on the client machine. To this extent, it is possible, in theory, that the computer could be the bottleneck. However, in reality, it would require a fairly slow computer by modern standards, and a very fast internet connection, and a reasonably complex page.

For general purpose browsing though, it's the connection speed which will limit it, and not the PC, though obviously the PC will cause a delay, just very small in comparison.

Thats what a was trying to say and what a grand explanation so I could go up to 2 MB and would still see pages still load faster, I was thinking about the old days when I added RAM to my pc the first upgrade made a BIG differance but the second time I did it it was sort of well I know I have upgraded you but was it worth the investment? your not much faster! not a huge change this time sort of thing do you get my drift?


Nimco wrote:
>
> To this extent, it is possible, in
> theory, that the computer could be the bottleneck. However, in
> reality, it would require a fairly slow computer by modern standards,
> and a very fast internet connection, and a reasonably complex page.
>
> For general purpose browsing though, it's the connection speed which
> will limit it, and not the PC, though obviously the PC will cause a
> delay, just very small in comparison.