What part of 'way out in the sticks' are you from Darren?
The 'status quo' connection across most of the UK is the 'up to 8mb' connection (with many areas, especially the cities - the Birmingham area has C21N 'up to 24mb' - now doing way better than that).
I have WildBlue (only internet service offered where I live), and I pay $89 a month for 1.5mbs up and 256kb down. I would love to have 2mb down and 1mb up with a reasonable latency speed of 300-400ms, and pay 60 a month.
Lets be realistic about the situation. Like our Cell phone services here in the USA, Broadband internet is way overpriced and lacks speed in comparison to other services around the globe.
We need higher speeds for more affordable prices here in the states.
Is Darren in the UK? I thought he was here in the US (this is a US site,), which would mean by "our" he really did mean ours and not yours. Believe it or not, the whole world isn't on the same level of internet speed.
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"maybe our status quo 2mbps connections"?!
What part of 'way out in the sticks' are you from Darren?
The 'status quo' connection across most of the UK is the 'up to 8mb' connection
(with many areas, especially the cities - the Birmingham area has C21N 'up to 24mb' - now doing way better than that).
You're a tad out of date.
Have a look around this site here - http://www.dslzoneuk.net/isp_ratings.php
I have WildBlue (only internet service offered where I live), and I pay $89 a month for 1.5mbs up and 256kb down. I would love to have 2mb down and 1mb up with a reasonable latency speed of 300-400ms, and pay 60 a month.
Lets be realistic about the situation. Like our Cell phone services here in the USA, Broadband internet is way overpriced and lacks speed in comparison to other services around the globe.
We need higher speeds for more affordable prices here in the states.
Is Darren in the UK? I thought he was here in the US (this is a US site,), which would mean by "our" he really did mean ours and not yours. Believe it or not, the whole world isn't on the same level of internet speed.