24 Mb Consumer Broadband Launched

twilight30 writes to tell us The Guardian is reporting that broadband provider "Be" is providing customers with the option of a 24 megabits per second download speed connection. These speeds are roughly three times the closest local competitor and also allow 1.3 megabits per second upstream, roughly five times quicker than any other service provider. The service is being offered at £24 (US $42.84) per month. Hopefully this will become a trend of radically increasing consumer internet speeds.

Comments

WAAAAA Haaaa HAaaaa SOB!! SOB!!

[JohnnyGTO]

I pay that much for the crap COX calls broadband! waaaaaaaaaa....

I mean what does it take to get an american company to do something progressive and customer oriented???

I guess I shouldn't bad mouth them to muc^%%%#*>23fFFFhgv%$#( carrier lost....

Re:I love bandwidth

[Lord Kano]

Limping along at 512kbps is not quite the exhilarating ride that it once was when I first switched from 56.6 dialup.

Quit yer bitchin'. In the US we never saw above 53K dialup.

8 Years ago I got ISDN and was paying over $120 per month for 128Kb connectivity.

LK

I W A N T S T A T I C I P

[3770]

All I want is a static IP

Still 100$ for 64kbps

[MrJones]

so, this topic is just killing me :(

Re:24 Mb not 24 MB

[FudRucker]

am i correct on this?

it takes 8 bits to make 1 byte.

so if this little detail is not made known, it can be used as marketers to make an ISP's offerings sound better than it really is (the spinzone)...

so a 24 Megabit per second connection is a 3 megabyte per second connection, not bad but can be misleading to some that are unfamilier with this fact...