The Swedes are now getting 26mb/s broadband for £30/month

[Wasabi]

Lucky them eh!

The minimum speed they can get is 2.5mb/s, while it is getting normal to have 8-16mb/s, but now 26mb/s for £30/month is reality and my friend said that there is no limit how fast broadband can be because of the fiber optic infrastructure they have.

He thought UK should be sued for allowing Tiscali calling a speed of 150k/s as broadband ;p

I guess theoretically they can download a high quality movie in 4 minutes or so.

Wasabi

[cskates]

If you really want to be sickened, Yahoo-BB in Japan do a 45Mbit ADSL connection for 1560yen (£8.46)! http://bbpromo.yahoo.co.jp/promotion...45m/index.html

[Wasabi]

wasabi!!!

That is quick! and look at that price.

Don't play online games against the Japanese or Swedes.

[Steve Bate]

56k dial-up and no hope of broadband

Steve

[Wasabi]

Ive noticed on the Jap Yahoo chart, that it is really only people extremely close to the exchange that will get 40-45mbps, the further away from the exchange the slower speed. The majority will get much lower, if there are scarce with exchanges.

I believe that everyhousehold that are reached by the exchange will get 26mbps, the speed is not decreasing the further away you live (I'm gonna try and get confirmation on that).

Still a darn cheap offers, really cost nothing!

[Gary Lightfoot]

BT were going to install fibre in the UK, but then the government sold them off into privatisation, so the cost then could not be justified by the company.

And there's the governments telling us privatisation is a good thing.

Gary

[Kramer]

You could stream DVDs at 45mb/s

[hornydragon]

well thats what ADSL was designed for streaming PPV TV but other than hull it never got off the ground cause sky have a monopoly so big hardware investment is to much!

[GRees]

According to BT everyone in the UK will be able to get broadband by the end of 2005.

That means I've only got to put up with 56K for another 2 years

I love BT I do.

[Wasabi]

Ok, but what does broadband mean according to BT?
150k speed to everyone? or even up to 512k? and charging a whooping £18/month!

Well, some good and bad auto news, strangely Mazda RX-8 231bhp is actually only around £1500 dearer than US (usually US is 40-50% cheaper) and £6000 cheaper than Sweden or 21.4%! On the other hand Peugeot 206Gti in Sweden is £2750 ( cheaper than in UK) or 20%.

Oh, Pioneer DV-360 (dvd player) cost £60 if bought from richers with price beat by £10 against amazon, and that my friends is nearly 44% cheaper than best price in Sweden! Not bad ;p

Wasabi

[andy572]

Originally posted by GRees
According to BT everyone in the UK will be able to get broadband by the end of 2005.

That means I've only got to put up with 56K for another 2 years

I love BT I do.

I'd like to see this.

My friend can't even get v90 speeds on dial-up. It seems his one phone line is the exchange for every house in the area! Oh, and BT won't do anything about it

[JohnG]

Looks like BT are investigating radio waves
BBC Technology story

[Gary Lightfoot]

I believe BT only advertises 512k or higher as broadband, it's other companies that are calling lower speeds BB, and BT isn't too happy about that, though I think Oftel may be looking into it.

Gary.

[Line_Man]

Originally posted by Kramer
You could stream DVDs at 45mb/s

Or two HDTV channels

AOL which i'm on at the moment gave me a special offer of 512k broadband for £19.99 a month for first 12, theyre trying to charge £35 for 1 megabyte a sec Broadband, wow those swedes are sooooo lucky.