I received an email from my broadband supplier telling me that my line has been upgraded and I can now get up to a 24M connect. When I was first upgraded to an 8M line I actually got 8M. I checked today and I am struggling to hit 2M. I live in the center of a big city and I am *really* close to an exchange. Of course I’ve not alone. It seems 68% of US broadband connections don’t meet the recent minimum definition of broadband (read). Do they really think I’m going to pay more cash to get a 24M connection that serves content at 2M? I think not.
Cheers
Tim…
I could not update to 50M at home because I live in a small village, I am stuck to 20M while some colleagues have 100M down 7M up.
Apparently more than enough to meet the current broadband definition 😉
I have 3Mb and it’s the most I can get as I live in the country. FiOS is not coming to a neighbourhood near me, alas…
One of my friends (also in Birmingham city centre) has fibre and a 20M line. His connection is slow also. 🙁
I think the UK providers are conning us bigtime. It’s all contention ratio. Obviously, with copper wire it can be distance from the exchange etc, but I was under the impression fibre was the business until he told me this. 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
speedtest shows 19.57/2.48 for my DSL over phone line
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1105613481.png
HAPPY NEW YEAR
So much better than mine 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
You guys are lucky. Here in Canada I am stuck with 5m up and now they are planning on sticking a 25gb limit on most DSL. Talk about a con.