View Single Post
Old 05-01-2011, 04:51 AM   #43
GeoffC
Chocolate Grasshopper ...
GeoffC ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.GeoffC ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.GeoffC ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.GeoffC ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.GeoffC ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.GeoffC ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.GeoffC ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.GeoffC ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.GeoffC ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.GeoffC ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.GeoffC ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
GeoffC's Avatar
 
Posts: 27,599
Karma: 20821184
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Scotland
Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW
Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Which is a perfect illustration of what I was saying, Geoff. It's not the wire from your house to the telephone exchange that determines performance (unless you live a long way from the exchange), but what happens beyond that.

For us in the UK, 250GB/month sounds like an unbelievably generous allowance. Most UK ISPs cap at the level of 10-50GB/month, depending what package you buy.
I'm at about 2.5 km from the exchange, and on copper.

But it is crazy (no?) that BT has a slower speed than someone else - in fact BT come out at one of the slowest that are available.
GeoffC is offline   Reply With Quote