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Originally Posted by scastle
Ironically, AFAIK a large part (possibly all) of the JANET (.ac.uk) is actually provided by NTL networks (not NTL Home). I work for a Uni, so am also on a 100 Mbit network, and while it is nice to able to download things like Mandrake Linux (all CDS) in 12 minutes, you really don't notice the extra speed in normal use. Especially since they started checking the network for unauthorised servers and P2P use. Having said that, I don't use streaming media much, unless I am testing a stream for work.
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Some will use ntl's fibre for sure (nothing else, that's UKERNA's job!), you'd be surprised at the companies who do use ntl's fibre network, it's quite extensive!