On 06/12/2010 17:27, Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,
"Nightjar \"cpb\"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote:

On 06/12/2010 15:48, Wesley wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11922424

Can't see how the government spending almost �1 Bn on this is going to
generate too many jobs. Most call centres etc seem to be located abroad
anyway. It will be great for on-line gamers and people who download
massive
files. I can't understand why the Government is so keen to promote
it. Am
I missing something here??

Have you ever tried to run an internet based business from a rural
area where it can be a struggle to get 255kbps, even when you are
paying for a 5:1 contention ratio?

Have you got any ancient phones in your house? If not, have you tried
disconnecting the bell-wire at your BT master socket? We're some 2 miles
from the exchange, and speed went from 3.5-4 Mbps to 7.6Mbps (raw line
speed) when I had that done.

It was on an industrial estate, using a dedicated line installed for the
purpose and the BT engineer even by-passed the plug-in bit of the BT
master socket to try to improve the speed, without much effect.

Colin Bignell