Cameron pledges to make fast broadband a legal right for all

[abaxas]

So we've moved from 'nobody needs Fast Broadband' to 'Fast Broadband isn't fast enough'?

My point is that it doesnt matter how fast something is, it has to be right for the job.

It's like buying a fezza to deliver furnature. Fast but no good for the job at hand.

[peterb]

We should be look at satalite

Very high latency.

[g8ina]

I must say, I agree with mojothejester - Priorities completely wrong.

Yes, we all need the net to fill informs these days, but SURELY a home, food, health and education are WAYYYYYY more important !

[shaithis]

I must say, I agree with mojothejester - Priorities completely wrong.

Yes, we all need the net to fill informs these days, but SURELY a home, food, health and education are WAYYYYYY more important !

The proposal isn't to make shelter, food, health and education secondary to fast internet though........

[outwar6010]

God this boils my urine

No-one need 'fast' internet for anything other than watching movies or piracy. There is no difference for people if their webpages take 2 seconds of 2.1 seconds to load.

What about the sheer myriad of legit online streaming users that use youtube, netflix, iplayer and so on? Also I've noticed in your previous comments that you've complained about downloading games on your 2 meg connection.....That's not a complaint I've had on my 40 meg connection.

[jimbouk]

Just as our forebears effectively brought gas, electricity and water to all, we're going to bring fast broadband to every home and business that wants it.

So, just like all the remote properties that don't have a mains gas supply, you're going to not supply them with fast broadband as well? 10 points for that statement.

[Corky34]

The proposal isn't to make shelter, food, health and education secondary to fast internet though........

Indeed it's not, it's a proposal to give people the legal right to request a broadband connection of at least 10Mbps, just like i have a legal right to request pink fluffy elephants.

[shaithis]

Indeed it's not, it's a proposal to give people the legal right to request a broadband connection of at least 10Mbps, just like i have a legal right to request pink fluffy elephants.

The world does need more pink fluffy elephants.

[peterb]

Indeed it's not, it's a proposal to give people the legal right to request a broadband connection of at least 10Mbps, just like i have a legal right to request pink fluffy elephants.

Not quite, it's a proposal to make it a legal obligation for BT to provide a broadband connection of at least 10Mb/s to anyone who wants it.

http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-news/3...ml#post3560627

[Corky34]

Misleading title to this thread then.

EDIT: I should have said misleading story and not thread title, or i think i should've as the first sentence mentions the "legal right to request"

[MickyTek]

Great this is all coming from a PM who is totally full of BS, Not a word can be trusted from this man, Not a word

[peterb]

Misleading title to this thread then.

EDIT: I should have said misleading story and not thread title, or i think i should've as the first sentence mentions the "legal right to request"

Or "BT to have a legal obligation to provide...."

But hey, journalistic licence!

[me-yeah]

So come on.... what do people 'need' fast internet for.....

downloading games off of steam, id software rage is 50gb, and still takes a good 15 hours on 20mbs connection if the connection is download at full speed

blu-rays are now quad layer, and go upto 150gb

[Goobley]

France (where I live a fair amount of the time), said a similar thing about fiber with a date of 2013 IIRC. Well my parent's don't have access to fiber yet or in the foreseeable future. I'm quite surprised at 10 Mbps being set as the threshold though, I'd have thought we'd at least want to match the US setting the broadband threshold to 25 Mbps (is that so unacheivable?)

[imshimaru]

I'm footling along on a whopping 400kB/s download max atm... That 10Mb/s will almost triple my bandwidth. I'm just outside Coventry...hardly remote, 3G is non-existant, let alone 4G. I'm not expecting to be blessed with anything faster currently.

[Smudger]

The world does need more pink fluffy elephants.

May I suggest you take one of these a day, every day. Won't be long then...