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I hate BT, but with the midband services ready to go I was prepred to give them a little more slack. Then you read something like this...
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"ADSL is available to 95% of Japanese homes, and FTTH available to
("only") 64%! Many if not most ADSL homes enjoy 12 Mbps service, and
24 Mbps service will become a reality in 2003. And 100 Mbps FTTH
service currently costs JPY5400 per month (USD$45) and friends tell me
that will drop by almost 20% next month. It's very cool to see
billboards on Tokyo's fashionable Aoyama-Dori advertising NTT's 100
Mbps broadband service next to ads for cosmetics and couture. By the
way, this survey piece implies that cable modem service has been left
in the dust by both Fiber and DSL."
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Yes, that is 100 Mbps. For $45/£29 a month. For £2 a month less BT will provide a fraction of the population with a service hundereds of times slower. And while they'll happily install a fiber optic line, there isn't any boradband service they can provide via it (i.e. UK FTTH availability is 0%, not even in trial stage).
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"ADSL is available to 95% of Japanese homes, and FTTH available to
("only") 64%! Many if not most ADSL homes enjoy 12 Mbps service, and
24 Mbps service will become a reality in 2003. And 100 Mbps FTTH
service currently costs JPY5400 per month (USD$45) and friends tell me
that will drop by almost 20% next month. It's very cool to see
billboards on Tokyo's fashionable Aoyama-Dori advertising NTT's 100
Mbps broadband service next to ads for cosmetics and couture. By the
way, this survey piece implies that cable modem service has been left
in the dust by both Fiber and DSL."
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Yes, that is 100 Mbps. For $45/£29 a month. For £2 a month less BT will provide a fraction of the population with a service hundereds of times slower. And while they'll happily install a fiber optic line, there isn't any boradband service they can provide via it (i.e. UK FTTH availability is 0%, not even in trial stage).
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bah i want anything better than my "somtimes works" conection. Want broadband so i can dl (im downloading 412 megs on 56k atm FFS) gah im jealous of the damn japenese.
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> I do't understand 100mbps? and 512k?
1024kbps = 1 mbps (kilobits per second vs megabits per second)
The other question is about the different between bits and bytes. 8 bits equals one byte i.e. 1MB (one Mega Byte)is 8mb (eight mega bits).
Don't take any of that as gospel though, I'm open to corrections though sure it's roughly there.
> I do't understand 100mbps? and 512k?
1024kbps = 1 mbps (kilobits per second vs megabits per second)
The other question is about the different between bits and bytes. 8 bits equals one byte i.e. 1MB (one Mega Byte)is 8mb (eight mega bits).
Don't take any of that as gospel though, I'm open to corrections though sure it's roughly there.
Not really. They actually load in a flash.
I have broadband, its overated.
So I can download stuff quickly, web pages still load at the same speed and such.
So I can download stuff quickly, web pages still load at the same speed and such.
hmm so what is 1mb? 1mbps?
I do't understand 100mbps? and 512k?
One.
Hundred.
Mbps?
I. Want. It. NOW.
But of course, BT would never introduce that here, as you say, and offer us a service which is loads slower for almost the same price. Bah.
Hundred.
Mbps?
I. Want. It. NOW.
But of course, BT would never introduce that here, as you say, and offer us a service which is loads slower for almost the same price. Bah.
The Great British way.
Look at On Digital/ITV Digital, Rover car group, and so on. Don't be surprised if certain area's of the UK never get any type of broadband. It's the digital divide. Area's which once had the same service as other area's don't get the new technology. So business/industry think twice before starting up in those area's. So eventually you are left with area's without tech services which then lack I.T business's, so people are less likely to find work, so people move away.
Look at On Digital/ITV Digital, Rover car group, and so on. Don't be surprised if certain area's of the UK never get any type of broadband. It's the digital divide. Area's which once had the same service as other area's don't get the new technology. So business/industry think twice before starting up in those area's. So eventually you are left with area's without tech services which then lack I.T business's, so people are less likely to find work, so people move away.
Im really not impressed with BT's attitude to Broadband, the fact that so much of the UK is still unconnected is pathetic.
If the contract gets cancelled it's kind of irrelevant how long you were originally tied to it for though. AFAIR it's been running since last July anyway and even if forced to pay for the whole year they've more than got their monies worth... asw have I...
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