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"Fed up with 1meg"

My internet connection at home is depressing. It was nice when I first upgraded from a 128kb connection on ISDN to Broadband, but now I use the work connection and other people's connections when I am fixing their PCs, it just reminds me of how slow a 1mb connection really is.

Surely other countries have far longer reaches for their internet speeds than us? My brother-in-law lives in a small town in Spain and can get faster speeds than I can living in a larger town in the UK.

Damn BT and their crap technology holding everyone up!

How do you upgrade your line? Do you have to have it physically taken out and a new one put in?

Not unless it's really old technology.

You do with Telewest but all of the others run on your regular phone line I think. The just put a limit on the line to only allow whatever speed you have paid for.

I went from 56k dialup --> 6mb broadband... Man that was a happy day...

Wonder how fast Internet speeds will develop over the next few years?

When I started college in 1996 I bought a new PC with a 150mb processor which was the top of the range at the time and 10 years later we're up to 3.4GB ish.

Can instant downloads of movies etc be that far away?

Smedlos wrote:
> Wonder how fast Internet speeds will develop over the next few
> years?
>
> When I started college in 1996 I bought a new PC with a 150mb
> processor

That's quite a processor