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Originally Posted by Hom3r
Don't forget you will only get this speed if your processor can handle it.
My old laptop could just about scrape 90meg, my new one got 121meg.
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flash based speedtests are heavy on cpu, but if you eg. download with a ftp client or notmal http download then anything made remotely recently should handle it.
chrome is especially bad, chrome on dual core amd which runs at over 3ghz on my spare rig cant get more than about 40mbit/sec, but IE on the same machine can. (flash speedtest).
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Originally Posted by bubblegun
Isn't it stupid that BT line rental has been reduced at a wholesale level by OFCOM over the last few years but all the providers have increased the cost to consumers for the same service?
Virgin who do not even use BT have also been profiteering by using the same "stealth" price rise each year.
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yeah whats going on in DSL world currently with line rental is a scandal in my opinion. I have been raising my voice about it on other sites.
Typically dsl prices stay static or even drop, but line rental goes up annually and in most adverts line rental is not shown as part of the price, yet line rental is compulsory for dsl. Even worse is in latest BT price rises traditionally free services such as caller display are now having fee's applied. The runmour mill is all this is to pay for the football rights BT have obtained, as its now not just EPL football but they also now have overpaid for the champions league, bidding more than double of itv and sky. So BT retail have chose to spread the cost of BT sport across all customers, and for all xDSL isp's line rental is their new cash cow (As well as calls), even isp's like zen have jumped on the line rental bandwagon.