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Re: depressing article
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2008, 05:20:21 PM »

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The Cisco-backed research compiled data collected by popular online speed monitoring website Speedtest.net from a whopping 8 million measurements carried out by individual broadband users.

That must have been all my results of each time I tested it when being capped. :lol:
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Re: depressing article
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2008, 06:41:55 PM »

Comparisons like this are not to be taken too seriously, because they always gloss over important factors. Comparing us with Japan, for example, is grossly distorted by the fact that the majority of Japan's population lives in high-rise blocks in cities. Of course it's economic to give them high speed broadband connections. The small proportion of the population living in outlying country districts are unlikely to have any broadband at all.

In the UK the impetus has always been on coverage, not speed, and for most purposes very high speed is not needed. Video on demand is just entertainment, and is far less important than the many serious purposes which can be served very well on slower connections.

So I don't feel depressed by that survey. They've looked at one aspect of broadband provision where we don't seem to stack up very well when compared with other developed countries, but they haven't looked at the whole picture.
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Re: depressing article
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2008, 06:46:21 PM »

Just out of curiosity Eric, do you have any idea how the UK's broadband coverage compares with other major nations, i.e. the percentage of properties that are capable of getting broadband, regardless of whether they actually have it or not?
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Re: depressing article
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2008, 06:54:05 PM »

I did see an article a couple of months back, but I didn't keep a reference to it. When I get a moment I'll have a poke around.
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Re: depressing article
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2008, 08:02:51 PM »

Thanks :)
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Re: depressing article
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2008, 12:41:25 PM »

Floydy,
This may make interesting reading about broadband stats:
http://www.nationmaster.com/cat/int-internet

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Re: depressing article
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2008, 01:17:02 PM »

Very interesting indeed Dave, but it doesn't actually answer my query.
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Re: depressing article
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2008, 01:22:10 PM »

Eric will return forthwith.
dave  ;)
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Re: depressing article
« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2008, 01:27:04 PM »

Eric will return forthwith.

Is that a threat or a promise?
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Re: depressing article
« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2008, 03:57:53 PM »

I'm not sure it's either. I haven't had any success finding it yet. :(
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Re: depressing article
« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2008, 05:57:38 PM »

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