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Post by Patrick on Jun 2, 2009 2:02:30 GMT
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jun 2, 2009 8:20:15 GMT
This article is half true, I am on BT 8MB broadband, I get around 3GB at peak time (which is more than enough), and they are very lax about the 10GB download limit per month...sometimes I don't DL much at all, other month's, I can go way beyond 10GB DL limit...I DL'd the Star Trek Original series last week (27GB), I am currently DLing another series that is around 60GB...so, I'll probably hit around 100GB this month.
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Post by Patrick on Jun 2, 2009 9:04:25 GMT
I wonder if they don't have a choice? Because of archaic telephone system (copper wires etc) - for which they are partly to blame - we are left with this system where too many people just overloads it!
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jun 2, 2009 9:19:12 GMT
I wonder if they don't have a choice? Because of archaic telephone system (copper wires etc) - for which they are partly to blame - we are left with this system where too many people just overloads it! Fair point...I think the throttling is fair, it would be shitty if I was getting a full 8MB while just cruising the web and some poor sap was getting 100kbs (they would be unable to even watch a youtube vid proberly)...so BT are trying to make sure everybody gets a slice of the tasty interwebs pie. I can live with this, I can happily surf around and watch streams during peak-time with 2-4GB speeds, and leave my downloads on at night so as to take advantage of the 6-8MB that I usually get off-peak. I think BT (and most other ISPs) will be fibre-optic in a few years, we will all be sucking down 20GB as a basic standard.  AH |
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Post by Patrick on Jun 2, 2009 9:27:17 GMT
we will all be sucking down 20GB as a basic standard. We'll have no talk of such interweb pornography here young man! Uncle Harvey will have to fetch The Toads if we hear anymore of that! ;D |
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Post by Patrick on Jun 2, 2009 9:31:32 GMT
The irony is - is that France has been enjoying higher speeds for years - thanks to the concept of the old Prestel system of theirs (forget what it's called), I read an article last year where £20 a month bought your phone/high speed net/Telly etc at a time when most of our companies were double that.
The Irony being that France Telecom is still a Publicly Owned Utility.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jun 2, 2009 9:32:13 GMT
"You may give a toad a wart but a toad may not give a wart to you..."
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