[access-uk] Re: BROADBAND ENQUIRY
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:41:43 +0100
Yes well, tristram, that's the way I tend to see it now! The phone line is
increasingly simply a conduit for the broadband connection, with phone calls an
added extra for me. Sometimes I think I would like to rationalise on using my
mobile for phone calls and cut out the landline phone altogether, but cost of
calls wise, that isn't economic at the moment. I say roll on a flat rate
connection with a lot of call time included which is meant for data comms as
much, if not more than telephony.
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tris-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 4:34 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: BROADBAND ENQUIRY
| Ray wrote:
|
| "That said, when we are all adicted to watching TV any time we like up to a
| week or so after transmission, I wonder if 2Mbs will still be enough?"
|
| It won't, 8mb is pushing the limits of ADSL down analogue copper wire (at
| street level). For that kind of stuff you are probably going to be looking
| at 15mb for starters, that's probably going to need optical fiber up to your
| house/flat. That's not very, very far away but a few years yet. I have
| read a fair amount of guff on this in recent past. Telcoms are likely to
| mvoe to a situation of providing all of us data packages with conventional
| telephone voice services thrown in as afterthough. In other words the
| priorities will be the other way around with data being most valuable
| traffic to them rather than voice calls as it is in the domestic market
| today.
|
| Regards.
|
| Tristram Llewellyn
| Sight and Sound Technology
| Technical Support
| www.sightandsound.co.uk
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 4:25 PM
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: BROADBAND ENQUIRY
|
|
| I tend to think that Tristram is right in saying 2Mbs is plenty for the vast
| majority of us. That said, when we are all adicted to watching TV any time
| we like up to a week or so after transmission, I wonder if 2Mbs will still
| be enough?
|
| Anyway, I had a leaflet through the door about Bulldog Communications and
| they appear to be very agressively cmpetitive. Take a look at:
|
| http://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/provider.asp?ProviderID=4&kt=105
|
| Just for starters. Wonder if anyone uses them or has investigated further.
| Ray
|
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| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Tristram Llewellyn"
|
|| Plusnet major on consistency and reliability I think more than raw speed.
|| You'll have to bear in mind 2mb rollout has only recently got started and
|| not everywhere has that at the moment and sometimes not even broadband.
| The
|| availability of 4 and 8mb will be limited somewhat by geographical
| proximity
|| or lack of it to an exchange. Therefore a number of providers have sat on
|| the sidelines to see how the customer experiences go with those provders
|| that do, for example Bulldog do this in the South, but some customers have
|| had major gaps in service. Take a look at somewhere like
|| www.theregister.co.uk for more info.
||
|| Personally for most of what you come accross today 2mb is fast enough for
|| any one person.
||
|| Regards.
||
|| Tristram Llewellyn
|| Sight and Sound Technology
|| Technical Support
|| www.sightandsound.co.uk
||
|| ----- Original Message -----
|| From: "Amro Bilal" <amro_bilal@xxxxxxx>
|| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|| Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 4:03 PM
|| Subject: [access-uk] Re: BROADBAND ENQUIRY
||
||
|| BROADBAND ENQUIRYVirgin.net is good as well. I've been with them for
| around
|| two years and haven't had any problems and there help line is good too.
|| Though I might migrate to PlussNet when they start offering 4/8MB speed
|| broadband if Virgin doesn't offer a matching service.
||
|| Cheers,
||
|| AmroB
|| ----- Original Message -----
|| From: Ian Macrae
|| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 9:33 AM
|| Subject: [access-uk] BROADBAND ENQUIRY
||
||
|| Hi all,
||
|| Having put up with their terrible customer service and lack of
| proactivity
|| for too long we're at last in the process of ditching NTL at home.
|| Consequently we're looking at alternative broadband providers and I
| wondered
|| whether there were any which people would highly recommend from a VI point
|| of view? Alternatively, are there any which should be avoided at all
| costs?
|| I remember, for example, that AOL was set to be not very good in terms of
|| usability/accessibility.
||
|| Cheers now.
||
|| Ian
||
||
|| http://www.bbc.co.uk/
||
||
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