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Originally Posted by kronas
you know its funny that yahoo can deal with 20mbit lines in japan (not aware of limits there) yet over here they struggle with 512k 
i am aware that yahoo are in partnership with two diffarent companys on two diffarent networks.....still does not make sense |
I suppose over here, we have corporate monolith, BT who abuse their position as a dominant telco to peddle slow speed ADSL and try and milk as much money out of customers as possible. And even then, they still want to push capped or low speed (150k) services and obsolete technology - not everybody can get 1Mb due to the condition of the lines and the length; so whilst the world steams ahead we get left behind with our 150k "broadband" connections. In an ideal world it would be great to have fibre to the door and 100Mbit download speeds but as BT being the main telco in this country, it seems imposssible, if not a dream.
There is also a common misconception amongst the "man in the street" that you can only get broadband from BT - this is NOT true; you only need to have a phoneline with them and you do not need to go with their rip-off ISP. There are loads of other better deals out there which are cheaper and can offer better service.
BT are extremely aggressive in the way that they push their own ADSL services - but most people get locked into 12 month contracts and can feel regret in signing up to their services when they see other ISP's offerings.