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[grumpy_Bastard]

Good to see both the UK & US lie about the quality of our respective broadband providers compared to Asia and some other countries. I pay $35 USD a month for 6 megabit down, 768 up with one dynamic IP. Some areas near me now have Verizon's FIOS fiber to the premises service that's 15 megabit down, 2 me

No ones lieing, just quoting whats avalible to them.

http://www.oecd.org/document/39/0,2340, ... _1,00.html

United States
DSL 6.5%
Cable 9.0%
Other 1.3%
Total 16.8%
Rank 12

United Kingdom
DSL 11.5
Cable 4.4
Other 0.0
Total 15.9
Rank 13

Out of all of the countries in the world, the USA Ranks 12th place, with the UK just behind in 13th, or a mere 1.1% less "subscribers per 100 inhabitants". If you take out the "other" and just consider DSL and cable, the UK actually beats out the USA for avalibility.

Though all of this is useless information, broadband is avalible in both countries, what is of interest, is the cost and speed.

[iamacup]

UK speeds are terrible in some areas though, like within an 5 mile radius of my house you cant get faster than 2 MBPS even though its a major city....

phail or what.

[AF]

UK broadband availability has only really arisen in the last 3-4 years and when it did come it literally exploded onto the scene. One month nobody was bothered about soem ADSL thing some tech saavy people had seen on the news, the next month you had to have broadband or you were in the stoneage, combined with broadband prices plummeting very fast, to the point where it only cost £1 extra from dialup to get 512kbps broadband, and some isps stopped providing dialup.

Now BT's 21st century network should give offices in London ethernet speeds to other offices in London, using ethernet style equipment versus DSL style, and IPs rather than phone numbers. *according to google news*

[Cabbage]

Broadband is pretty cheap in the UK, you can expect to pay £25 a month for 16meg (if you actualy live in a supported area) usualy with the first 3 months hlaf price, free modem etc aswell. I myself pay £25 a month for 1.5mbit from demon (although it would be 8 meg if i didnt live in the middle of a field)

[grumpy_Bastard]

The bottom line, it doesnt matter if your in africa or in china, There are always going to be quite a number people that only have dialup or satellite as a avalible option. Its not worth it for an ISP to spend a fortune on bringing high speed "download a movie in 5 minutes" internet service to every home.

If your living in a city with several hundred thousand residents, and the *only* option in that city is dialup, then theres a need to get upset. If your a 10-20 minute drive out of town, living on a farm, and your angry that you cant download files at speeds that fiber optic internet provides... saying the countries networks and ISPs suck really doesnt make sense.

UK speeds are terrible in some areas though, like within an 5 mile radius of my house you cant get faster than 2 MBPS even though its a major city....

phail or what.

Like ive said before, the population here is 1/2 million, and I my ISP couldnt even get a signal strong enough to get *any* kind of DSL up to the property. DSL is fairly distance-limited, even more so considering wires arnt run in a perfect straight line radiating out from the ISP's POP. I hope your not saying speeds in the USA are blazingly fast everywhere. Im sure the UK shares the same problems that happen here. Monopolies/duopolies with no competition, crappy phone wires that can barely carry a comprehendible telephone converstation, companies that think 384kbps is plenty fast, people living too far out to make it worth an ISPs time/money. Its the same technology, just different people in charge.

It could be worse, just look at the networks in australia.

[LordMatt]

NEED MOAR CABLE!

[10053r]

Grumpy Bastard wrote:

If your living in a city with several hundred thousand residents, and the *only* option in that city is dialup, then theres a need to get upset. If your a 10-20 minute drive out of town, living on a farm, and your angry that you cant download files at speeds that fiber optic internet provides... saying the countries networks and ISPs suck really doesnt make sense.

Actually, if you live in the US at least, you have a lot of right to be very unhappy over that. The telecoms took about US$200 billlion (with a b) from the government in the nineties, and were required in exchange to provide universal access to broadband in the 20 Mbit range. The Bush administration, however, has not held them to that promise and has instead forgiven them the liability. The US was supposed to be competitive with South Korea, Sweden, etc. Instead, I'm paying US$80 (half of which is for a land-line telephone I don't use) for 6 Mbit down and .5Mbit up. And I have the fastest residential service money can buy in my area. Yeah I'm pissed.

P.s. Sorry for the offtopic rant.