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Download speed of 656 kbps.
FFS.
Quote: Lazzard @ October 1 2013, 11:04 AM BSTDownload speed of 656 kbps.
FFS.
? Wot's wrong with that?
I remember when 'tinterner was 3oo bps... Not 300 Kbps, just 300 !
656kbps is twice the national average..
Quote: billwill @ October 1 2013, 1:02 PM BST? Wot's wrong with that?
I remember when 'tinterner was 3oo bps... Not 300 Kbps, just 300 !
656kbps is twice the national average..I remember when each byte had to be delivered by hand by a small boy on a bicycle. I once sent an amusing e-card of Santa Clause flashing his bum to a dear friend. It took 234,890,123 boys on bikes. Half of them died, it was like the Somme all over. And it got dropped straight into the spam folder and deleted.
Bill Will you is well old!
Quote: billwill @ October 1 2013, 1:02 PM BST?
656kbps is twice the national average..
Seeing as the national average hit 9Mbps a year ago I don't quite see how that can be true...
Anyway, it's not fast enough for the iPlayer, so it can f**k off.
Quote: Lazzard @ October 1 2013, 1:46 PM BSTthe iPlayer
It doesn't work outside the UK (At least the TV programmes). That pisses me off.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ October 1 2013, 1:48 PM BSTIt doesn't work outside the UK (At least the TV programmes). That pisses me off.
Google 
Quote: Lazzard @ October 1 2013, 11:04 AM BSTDownload speed of 656 kbps.
FFS.
Unfortunately, Mr Lazzard, the results of your test mean that you'll never be able to father children again.
However, we do have a private option, in association with BT...
Quote: Lazzard @ October 1 2013, 1:46 PM BSTSeeing as the national average hit 9Mbps a year ago I don't quite see how that can be true...
Anyway, it's not fast enough for the iPlayer, so it can f**k off.
Is that the actual connection speed or what you can download files at? I believe my connection speed (or whatever) is 30mbps, but I only download files at a maximum of 2mbps (on a good day). Either way, I have no problem with iPlayer. 4 FUCKING OD on the other hand...
Quote: Lazzard @ October 1 2013, 1:46 PM BSTSeeing as the national average hit 9Mbps a year ago I don't quite see how that can be true...
Anyway, it's not fast enough for the iPlayer, so it can f**k off.
Huh, where did you find that figure?
Oh.. Ofcom
http://media.ofcom.org.uk/2013/08/07/average-uk-broadband-speed-continues-to-rise/
Trouble is there are now two distinct speedbands, the ADSL2+ and the fibreoptic bands and it really really really doesn't make statistical sense to take the average of all broadband. It needs to be quoted as average ADSL2+ and separately as average fibreoptic speed before yyou can compare your own to the national average.
However it seems that even ADSL2+ has risen fairly dramatically from what I remembered.
Clear as mud, as you say.
The fact of the matter is, there is a bit a crisis brewing up on this.
The disparity between urban speeds and rural ones will only get worse, yet all the development is done slap bang in the middle of London, with the presumption that everyone is travelling the super-fast highway.
We're on the wrong end of 5km of BT administered wire - the cost of getting cable to our lane would be about £100,000 per house - so that ain't going to happen.
The other option is satellite - possibly organised on a village by village basis - but that comes with 'lag' problems that makes things like voice etc unworkable.
Increasingly the world will become reliant on web-based technology - and increasingly, non-urban areas will be disadvantaged.
I've had a mini-rant on facebook, so thought I'd echo it here but these just need to stop.
"Hilarious" fake Breaking Bad finale spoilers.
I chuckled mildly at the first couple *tips hat to David Schneider* then the deluge started.
Basically...
I loved that bit where *insert reference to the finale of a different show* happened.
or
I loved the bit where *insert something wacky or zany which clearly wouldn't happen* happened.
Just stop it...
Would anyone like some electrical work done with very easy payment terms. You don't have to pay for 6 months and then just a little bit of the bill if you fancy doing that. And then only if I hassle your accounts department. There is no interest charged from the free bank of Goodlad. A great offer - pay something or nothing, you decide. Many of my customers have taken me up on this unadvertised offer. Get in quick before I am bankrupted.
Quote: Lazzard @ October 2 2013, 10:06 AM BSTClear as mud, as you say.
The fact of the matter is, there is a bit a crisis brewing up on this.
The disparity between urban speeds and rural ones will only get worse, yet all the development is done slap bang in the middle of London, with the presumption that everyone is travelling the super-fast highway.
We're on the wrong end of 5km of BT administered wire - the cost of getting cable to our lane would be about £100,000 per house - so that ain't going to happen.
The other option is satellite - possibly organised on a village by village basis - but that comes with 'lag' problems that makes things like voice etc unworkable.
Increasingly the world will become reliant on web-based technology - and increasingly, non-urban areas will be disadvantaged.
No point in laying CABLE, for the same effort a bundle of fibreoptic threads could be laid, future proofing your location. But perhaps that was what you meant anyway.
Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ October 2 2013, 10:43 AM BSTWould anyone like some electrical work done with very easy payment terms. You don't have to pay for 6 months and then just a little bit of the bill if you fancy doing that. And then only if I hassle your accounts department. There is no interest charged from the free bank of Goodlad. A great offer - pay something or nothing, you decide. Many of my customers have taken me up on this unadvertised offer. Get in quick before I am bankrupted.
Try this trick that I used to use. Buy some bright pink/red florescent paper and print out COPY-INVOICES on them with a big diagonal overlay "OVERDUE".
It hurts their eyes peeking out of their In-basket and also gets attention from the boss. You can also try posting it to the MD instead of the accounts department where possible.
People who crowd you. You're minding your own business and suddenly someone's looming behind you. Ushering you. Herding you. Sheepdogging you. What are they doing? F**k off out of it!