Broadband industry leaders are to meet ministers to discuss how to stop the UK dropping into the internet "slow lane".
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Traffic shaping is the true Killer of the UK Broadband... that and tiscali ;).
....p.s Will Work For Bandwidth ;)
Bad, I'm stuck on a slow BT connection for a year min now and it'll take me 2 hours on the phone to speak to someone in India who will patch me to someone in Scotland who will transfer me to someone in India who says he can't do anything without a proper autorization number. Bah humbug.
get Cable.... unless you live in a non-cable area of course, then your screwed : )
Check out this site.
You can do speed tests and it gives you the results of all the tests that people have been getting so you know which company is getting the best speeds. (For UK)
http://www.dslzoneuk.net/
[Edit] - Oh yeah, there are also comments from users and members and ratings given. I just wish I knew about this site before before I joined Orange (they are second to last).
Virgin isn't rated too highly either.
The blame for this lies mainly with BT... they are desperate to wring the last ounce of bandwidth out of copper lines; so they can avoid spending out on fibre for as long as possible.
Another problem is the sluggish nature of the Government. It is their repsonsibility to ensure we are not left behind, but in typical fashion it'll be too little too late.
It will be a bit of kick in the nuts when places like India have faster, cheaper and more reliable connections than the UK.
By the way... there's very few decent providers in the UK for broadband. I can only guess that it's the saturation of the network in this country which means customer service suffers and line speeds are nowhere near what is advertised.
I've had most success with providers who use LLU (Local Loop Unbundled) - which generally means they have their own hardware installed in the exchanges. They provide better speeds, lower contention ratios and usually go to BT on your behalf if there's a problem (as they have the agreements over the hardware).
It also holds true that you often get what you pay for. I previously used Seriously Internet (non-LLU though), which charge per GB. It can be a bloody expensive service if you download a lot... but is pretty quick, has excellent customer service (based in the UK, and very knowledgeable and don't appear to rely on scripts) and rarely goes wrong.
I've also used Sky who do use LLU in a lot of exchanges, and found their service excellent (Up to 16Mb). However their Customer Service (if you need to use it) is very very poor, relying almost entirely on scripts.. which leaves you stuffed more often than not!