The State of UK Broadband — Not So Fast

Barence writes "The deplorable speed of British broadband connections has been revealed in the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics, which show that 42.3% of broadband connections are slower than 2Mb/sec. More worryingly, the ONS statistics are based on the connection's headline speed, not actual throughput, which means that many more British broadband connections are effectively below the 2Mb/sec barrier. Better still, a separate report issued yesterday by Ofcom revealed that the majority of broadband users had no idea about the speed of their connection anyway."

Comments

Re:Before or after throttling?

[David Gerard]

But Virgin offers a new sixteen megabit DSL service! That's sixteen megabits total, of course.

I'm just picturing Virgin's 'thinking.' "We've heard that you can use things called 'computers' to send messages and even pictures. That'd be a good service to offer! We have this bloke in facilities who knows a bit about computers, we could get him to run it between refilling the coffee machines. If we tried, we could probably make it as reliable as our telly. Nobody really minds when the football drops out ten minutes before the end, do they."

Virgin: "We've Never Done It Before, And We Don't Really Know How To."

and in my Aussie accent, all I can say is...

[Anonymous Coward]

bloody pommie whingers

(that's a term of endearment)

How ?

[daveime]

How in God's name is the UK Government supposed to keep a record of everything you do online, if you are using these unholy fast speed internet connections ?