Home News Forum Articles
  Welcome back Join CF
You are here You are here: Home | Forum | Bt

You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most of the discussions, articles and other free features. By joining our Virgin Media community you will have full access to all discussions, be able to view and post threads, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload your own images/photos, and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please join our community today.


Welcome to Cable Forum
Go Back   Cable Forum > Alternatives to Virgin Media > Other ISPs Discussion

Bt
Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 11-02-2006, 16:55   #1
darkknight
Inactive
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: lincoln
Services: 20mb bb and vm phone
Posts: 11
darkknight is an unknown quantity at this point
Bt

Home users will be able to get much faster broadband from the end of March, once BT Wholesale ends its beta trial of its 8MB DSL Max service.
The move will mean that ISPs can pass on higher speeds to their customers, as BT has committed to upgrading all its 5,464 broadband enabled exchanges.
Some ISPs already offer speeds of up to 8Mbits/sec, if a user lives in an area where the exchange has been part of the trial.
Significantly, DSL Max improves upstream speeds to up to 832Kbits/sec, although many home users will only get up to 448Kbits/sec - still faster than the current 256KB offered with most packages.
This means sending very large emails, making video calls or uploading content to a website will all become much quicker.
Four products will be offered to ISPs, two more suited to businesses and two for home users, although they will be sold as Premium and Max packages. So if a customer wanted faster upstream speeds at home, this is possible.
For businesses there is Datastream Office Max and IP Stream Office Max, which offers upstream speeds of between 64Kbits/sec and up to 832Kbits/sec.
For home users, there is Datastream Home Max and IP Stream Home Max, with upstream speeds of between 64Kbits/sec and up to 448Kbits/sec. All offer up to 8Mbits/sec downstream speeds.
Faster speeds use more of BT Wholesaleââ‚ ¬â„¢s network capacity, so cost more for ISPs to buy. But many, such as Wanadoo with its 8MB broadband service, currently donââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t charge customers extra monthly fees.
Angus Flett, director of product management at BT Wholesale, believes this price freeze is unsustainable.
†˜What weââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢re seeing right now is a battle for speed so prices are tumbling. Consumers care about speed in so far as the application they use, but they also care about the quality [of service].â₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢
He believes in future more ISPs will sell packages tailored mainly for a specific application, such as video conferencing or Voice over IP, rather than the speed of service.
The industry is about two years from offering VDSL2 (Very High Speed DSL), which BT Wholesale has labs tested and hopes to begin trials of next year. This offers speeds of up to 50Mbits/sec downstream and 4Mbits/sec upstream, building on ADSL2 speeds of up to 24MB downstream and 1.5MB upstream.
Once available, this will open up the markets for many more bandwidth hungry services, such as high definition TV or big video conferencing facilities.
darkknight is offline   Reply With Quote
Advertisement
Old 11-02-2006, 23:58   #2
scrotnig
cf.mega poster
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 2,499
scrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appeal
scrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appealscrotnig has a bronzed appeal
Re: Bt

I can't even get 2mb ADSL here yet and I live in a big city.

Thankfully I'm on ntl so it doesn't matter.
__________________
BC FORUMS (established 2002)
scrotnig is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-02-2006, 00:04   #3
andygrif
Inactive
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 2,820
andygrif has a bronze arrayandygrif has a bronze arrayandygrif has a bronze array
andygrif has a bronze arrayandygrif has a bronze arrayandygrif has a bronze arrayandygrif has a bronze arrayandygrif has a bronze arrayandygrif has a bronze arrayandygrif has a bronze array
Re: Bt

Have you checked lately Scrotnig? Where do you live?
andygrif is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-02-2006, 08:55   #4
Chris W
cf.mega poster
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Reading
Age: 39
Services: Virgin Media Broadband Size M
Posts: 6,546
Chris W has a nice shiny star
Chris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny starChris W has a nice shiny star
Send a message via MSN to Chris W
Re: Bt

if you are going to copy entire articles from another source, please ensure you include a link to the original.
Chris W is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 09:53.


Server: osmium.zmnt.uk
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.