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    UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    Did anyone see the bit on the news the other evening about broadband speeds? I can't believe that Korea and France have 43Mb/s and Japan a staggering 94Mb/s.

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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    It's old news. Everyones had better broadband than us since I got my "Broadband". What's annoying is that nothing really gets done about it. Or if it does/planned to do it's gonna be ages yet.

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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    BT had a monopoly for far too long, never really developed the infrastructure to handle high speed internet. Even now a huge area only receive under 8Mbps ADSL.

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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    Quote Originally Posted by LuckyNV View Post
    BT had a monopoly for far too long, never really developed the infrastructure to handle high speed internet. Even now a huge area only receive under 8Mbps ADSL.
    I'd be happy with somewhere near the the 8Mbps that i'm supposed to recieve rather than the 1.6mbps connection due to the ****ty exchange I'mon and the distance I am from it.

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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    VM will be rolling out 50mb soon so it's not all that bad. the Swedes have had 100mbps up/down streams for years now

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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    UK ISPs are a joke to be honest and the cost of leased lines is just really over the top.
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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    This is what happens when you take a state-run monopoly (which can be directed to provide services) sell it to people who are solely profit-driven who then invest as little as possible into infrastructure and then tell us they can't possibly upgrade anything as there's no money it it.

    But at least it's better than Australia and NZ!

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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    stop moaning, uk will always be behind

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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    BT bad.

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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    Quote Originally Posted by Marenghi View Post
    VM will be rolling out 50mb soon so it's not all that bad. the Swedes have had 100mbps up/down streams for years now
    VM and 50mb really doesn't count

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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    I can get 512 kpbs maximum where I am in the sticks. A lot better than the 64 kpbs with ISDN that I used to have (ah, memories of back when I was a low ping barsteward for online Quake II.) However, in this day and age that's really not very good at all.

    We're in a pretty rubbish state and yes, I blame B.T. in the most part (followed by Ofcom and successive Governments too.) I think we'll see improvements eventually but - as noted above - it could well be very eventually, alas.

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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    I think it gets put into context when we're behind some countries that are rated "3rd world" by westerners like Brazil and so on. But, what can we do. I won't say VM will be anyones saviour, whats the point in a 50Mbit connection when you're only allowed to use 5% of it without being told off.
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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    Headline speeds on some countries in one thing, but what are the speeds you are liekly to get in your home?

    ADSL2+ which is fairly common in the UK maxes out at 24MB. This is the figure that should be quoted as a top speed for the UK, or in fact 50MB from VM. Yes I know not many can get it, but isn't that the case for the 43MB in France?

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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    but isn't that the case for the 43MB in France?
    That's a good point. Most of us don't even question when we see those "high" speeds. But when you check the statistics on sites like speedtest.net you see they really are ahead of us in their average speeds.

    Stats are here if anyone wants to take a look.

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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    Thanks moogle.

    That makes the complaint about the UK justified then. I'm just getting tired of people critisising the UK when they only include half the facts, or use flawed logic.

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    Re: UK broadband seems to lag behind the developed world

    Quote Originally Posted by moogle View Post
    VM and 50mb really doesn't count
    what'dya mean? that only certain areas can get it where they've bothered to dig up the street?

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