ADSL for Britain

[old.Cromwell]

Here is the site for the Labour Party.

http://www.labour.org.uk/

Go there, either send an Email or Ring them up, I rang them they are very nice, tell them how disgruntled you are with BT's handling of the ADSL Situation, ask them to find out why it has been delayed again and again.

This is the only way we are going to get ADSL this year, make the effort, it will benefit us all.

 

[Sar]

Lol

Oh dear.



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Dave

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[old.Necro]

If the Labour gov't is going to let the Member for Blackburn introduce legislation that is highly damaging for the UK internet industry, why do you think they'll think about the problem of bandwidth cost for end users..?

I'm not even sure if BT are going to pay attention to the existing European Commission directive on LLU anyway.

 

[old.Comatosed]

Why on earth do you want adsl anyway?
BT just bumped the consumer contention ratio up to 80-1.

 

[Sar]

I've got a cable modem already and have had since early June.

Broadband does indeedy rock. Tis a pity most people think ADSL is the only domestic broadband solution, including the media.

/me notes .net magazine and their bias towards ADSL over cable. ADSL gets a mention nearly every other page, whereas Cable gets one or two mentions per issue...

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Dave

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[old.Necro]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Comatosed:
Why on earth do you want adsl anyway?
BT just bumped the consumer contention ratio up to 80-1.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Because ADSL is flatrate and has a much larger capacity than ISDN. Now guess why BT don't want to roll it out (and are persistantly making the ADSL deal, if it can be called that, a raw deal)..

 

[Embattle]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Sar:
Tis a pity most people think ADSL is the only domestic broadband solution, including the media.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Not the only, but it is going to be the most accessible.
http://msgstore.barrysworld.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000338.html

 

[old.Delboy]

Yup, me will get isdn end of year. ADSL should be out by then....no?

Stable digital conn is more important than large bandwith for myself. Dont see myself d/l large amounts of pr0n,mp3's movies and the like.

Gad, I first read info on ADSL in the US 3 years ago. And it's taken this long for it to come here, guess it doesn't surprise some people.

 

[old.Zazel]

bt suck espcially in scotland.
adsl wont be out up here untill months after engands is and when it does ull probablly have to live in glasgow to get it.
ive got an isdn but its still slow compared to everything else, waste of money (isdn) i heard that the adsl was gona cost the same as an isdn?

i think im gona add i hate bt to my sig.


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-Zazel

 

[old.Necro]

I gave up on ADSL at the end of last June.

Cable Modems were promisied in the UK since 1982.

 

[Sar]

How were cable modems promised in the UK years before BT was made a private company (IE before other telecomms operators were permitted to operate within the UK, with the notable exception of Kingston Comms in Hull)?

And yeah Embattle, I appreciate that cable isn't available everywhere, but the same is said for ADSL. It will only be able to reach 70% of the UK population by the end of 2002.

Not much better than cable, who can virtually pick and choose where they operate.

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Dave

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Exterminate your progenitors, and call them heathens.
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[old.Comatosed]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>
Because ADSL is flatrate and has a much larger capacity than ISDN.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

What good is more bandwidth (to a gamer)compared to a consistent, low ping?

There are numerous flat rate options available to modem/isdn users.

All these people not upgrading to ISDN/HH in the hope that ADSL will reach them 'soon' (before they lag one to many times and smash up the PC) are wasting their time.



[This message has been edited by Comatosed (edited 17 August 2000).]

 

[old.Delboy]

Couldnt have put it better meself Coma.

 

[old.Necro]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Comatosed:
What good is more bandwidth (to a gamer)compared to a consistent, low ping?
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

What makes you think gaming is the only thing i do on the net..