Broadband quality improves around the world despite economic downturn

[Pondus]

Global Broadband Quality Study Shows Progress, Highlights Broadband Quality Gap

http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/news/media/Press+Releases/Cisco+BQS+2009.htm

[YoKenny]

President Obama should read this and focus on lagging US Internet acceptance now that the US 2016 Olympics bid is lost.

[bob3160]

President Obama should read this and focus on lagging US Internet acceptance now that the US 2016 Olympics bid is lost.

He probably doesn't have any more money available for this. It was already spent on trying to obtain the Olympics for Chicago. 

[DavidR]

Ironic, this report from Oxford University as Oxfordshire being a very rural English County has abysmal broadband coverage. So outside of large cities the UK broadband coverage needs a giant kick up the a**e as the quality (speed) is pants. Where they talk of 20Mbps, when the reality is much lower.

[YoKenny]

Ironic, this report from Oxford University as Oxfordshire being a very rural English County has abysmal broadband coverage. So outside of large cities the UK broadband coverage needs a giant kick up the a**e as the quality (speed) is pants. Where they talk of 20Mbps, when the reality is much lower.

Didn't they just get hit with Conficker?
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=49187.0

[spg SCOTT]

So outside of large cities the UK broadband coverage needs a giant kick up the a**e as the quality (speed) is pants. Where they talk of 20Mbps, when the reality is much lower.

Hmmm...Living in London, I don't experience this, but I know what you mean. My Broadband is roughly what we pay for, but that wasn't before some new lines were put in, among other things...

And the key words that they so subtly mention are: 'up to 20Mbps'
With those two words, they can pretty much give you what ever speed they want...which is usually less than you pay for...

[bob3160]

And the key words that they so subtly mention are: 'up to 20Mbps'

Gee David, that even includes you and your Dial-up connection. You certainly fall under that category. 

[DavidR]

Almost certainly (NOT), because that is a physical impossibility on a dial-up modem which has physical maximum of 56,000 kbps, so it can't get beyond that

[Pondus]

Why dial-up David, do you live far out in the bush where BRITISH TELECOM never comes to visit?

[bob3160]

Almost certainly (NOT), because that is a physical impossibility on a dial-up modem which has physical maximum of 56,000 kbps, so it can't get beyond that

Don't you have to pass 56K in order to get to 20MBS

[mkis]

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7583_102-0.html?threadID=359850&tag=forum-w;forums06

My provider says I have up to 7.2mbps. I am usually lucky to get 1mpbs in the real world. Other wireless users in my area with same type accounts - whether with my provider or rivals - have the same browser connect speeds or worse.

To put things in perspective, you usually need about 1mbps to run a video clip through without any momentary timeouts.

Sometimes my connect falls back to 2G which is dial-up speed 53.3kbps. I can still work on dial-up if I want and I would put this down to the bandwidth not being saturated. But Im only guessing. When fallen back to dial-up speed I usually find something else to do. One of my friends says his broadband is so slow, he hardly notices the difference between the two - his connection falls back to dial-up speed once he reaches the limit for his monthly GB allocation.

[DavidR]

Why dial-up David, do you live far out in the bush where BRITISH TELECOM never comes to visit?

Considering as previously stated Oxfordshire, hardly out in the sticks, the heart of England, but over 9KM from the exchange, so broadband is unreliable/unobtainable and if you can get it they say, 'up to 25Kbps' (yes that wasn't 25Mbps but Kbps )

[DavidR]

Almost certainly (NOT), because that is a physical impossibility on a dial-up modem which has physical maximum of 56,000 kbps, so it can't get beyond that

Don't you have to pass 56K in order to get to 20MBS

As I said a physical impossibility when connected by dial-up modem, so no passing 56Kbps, no passing go, just jail with your dial-up locked up at a max of 56Kbps, which isn't even attainable in my case.

[Pondus]

What about 3G Mobile Broadband?

[mkis]

sorry Mbps and Kbps.
Thanks DavidR.    Tend to take what I get without remembering what I got served up.