Who has got broadband?

[Guest paulmottley]

Just a little survey to see who has and who hasn't, as I've just got on myself

[Guest Vector]

We've had it for over a year now :)

[Guest spacecowboy6982]

Same here. Just recently upgraded to AOL 1MB. The speed :!: Love it :)

[Guest jackofall]

Blueyonder 2MB here

also a speed fan ;)

[Guest MECX]

NTL 1MB here mmmmm speed

[Guest spacecowboy6982]

2MB must be kick ass - come on AOL - get a move on. Im crawling in comparison to 2mb :) :!:

[Guest midnight]

2mb bulldogdsl, 25 quid a month, it runs at 1/2meg 8am-6pm then 2mb all other times+weekend (was a special offer and so is more expensive now i believe

[Guest Gorskar]

Bulldog have some great packages, shame their coverage is quite limited.

I got 512k ADSL, provided free from my work :)

At my Mum's though (where I'm going for Christmas) its back down to horrible 56k.

[Guest midnight]

hehe, bulldogs coverage aint that bad now, i live in a pretty small town in the mifddle of nowhere and can get it :)

i'm within 1/2 mile of my exchange which helps

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

NTL 600k does me fine :)

I could never go back to 56k though.

[Guest stevewright]

I've got the Tiscali 150K package. Sounds (and is) so much slower than you people's 2MB connection, but compared to 56K, web surfing is SOOOO much better!

[Guest paulmottley]

I'm on Tiscali's 256k for £19.99/month- can't fault it!

[Guest Isa]

It's not fair, I can't get it :cry:

[Guest Brody]

150k at home (stuck with that whilst i'm home for Christmas!) and 600k at uni :) (ntl)

[Guest kevlar]

I have NTL 1MB, but I'm going to drop back to 600k, the difference just isn't worth it unless you are downloading lots of movies etc ( which I'm now bored of, and not happy with the movie quality most of the time, get a DVD writer and a Blockbuster membership! :) ). 600k should be fast enough for most people.

Kevlar

[Guest spacecowboy6982]

get a DVD writer and a Blockbuster membership! :D  )

I hear that one lol :)

Thinking of dropping 1mb connection for Blueyonder 2mb as with AOL there is a 10 day trial period before you start paying extra for the 1mb service and my 12month contract for broadband is almost up so maybe it makes sense.

[Guest superkingdave]

i have only one friend in the 'not yet' category :D

oh well getting broadband and wifi at the end of jan :)

[Guest sponge]

I've been on Blueyonder 2mb for a while now and absolutely love it. £50 a month isn't cheap, but it is good vfm and I do have 3 PCs and an XBox using it. :D (Plus I download lots of stuff :) ) But if all you do is surf the net and play the odd game, there isn't much point going over 1mb.

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Got ntl 512k back in October 2001, can't fault it. When i moved out in Sept 2002 i had 2meg adsl from Pipex, now i'm back on 600k at home and dialup at uni :)

[Guest [email protected]]

Jeez, what do you guys consider broadband? :) I've got ADSL at 8 Mbit downstream and 1 Mbit upstream.

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Ah but where do you live? Bet you didnt have BT dragging their heels and trying to convince the entire country and the government that no-one wanted high-speed internet. ;p It takes 150 people to say "we'll buy adsl" before BT even consider upgrading their exchange...

[Guest paulmottley]

Monolithix,

Does that mean your exchange isn't triggered yet?

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Nope, so we got cable from NTL instead :)

The exchange my girlfriend uses was only activated at the end of November though.

[Guest paulmottley]

We live just off the road, so when they came to put in the cable they just went right by and missed out the 5 houses where we are.

Gits!

[Guest [email protected]]

I live in Sweden and here ADSL at 8 Mbit down and 1 Mbit up is average bandwidth in cities. In cities 26 Mbit VDSL (both ways) is being rolled out by a few ISP's. However VDSL is very sensitive to cable length, 0-300 mtrs 26 Mbit, 300-1000 mtrs 13 Mbit and so on... In other words, if you get 26 Mbits you're next door to the phoneline hub.