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On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, tom wrote:
On 05/12/10 16:36, Gordon Henderson wrote:Namesco. I'm getting 150kbps consistently. Which is just under 3* what I got before. I just doesn't make a useful difference for general use. Pages load fractionally faster - but there's still all that latency with various metric sites and I cant read the top bit of a page fast enough to worry about the rest not having loaded yet.On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, David Bell wrote:On Sunday 05 December 2010 12:51:53 tom wrote:Woke up this morning to find my BB have been upgrade from 512k to (?) 1.5MMy BB (same excellent ISP) has also been upgraded, free of charge from 2Mb tomax 8Mb. Result is about 6.8Mb download speed.Your ISP has moved you from a fixed-speed package to a rate adaptive package - very probably because it costs them less to run. It's still the same ISP behind the BT wholesale network handling the data - that's where the real bottleneck is.Who's the ISP? Gordon
Not sure I get what you're on about here! Metric sites?
I dont do a lot of downloads and most of what I do do is managed so the fact it only takes 20minutes overnight rather that an hour is neither here nor there. Videos from the Beeb suffer from the beeb bottleneck still - I've seen this on pipes.
Use get_iplayer... And if they give you uncapped bandwidth overnight, then use 'at' or run a cronjob to get them for you...
Its nice to have but I wouldnt pay more for it!
That's the biggest issue - no-one wants to pay what it really costs ... ISP margins are *really* tight and they get screwed tighter all the time by BT. I think it's cirtually impossible for a new ISP to get started these days - not without a wodge of funding from somewhere - who'll want their investment back at some point! My fear is that like what happened to the cable co's, we'll end up with one or 2 mega ISPs with > 90% of the coverage giving 10% of the service )-:
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