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arien617
Joined: Feb 01, 2006
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Adding more capacity would mean more fibres, meaning our already dug, covered and recently smoothly resurfaced roads would need to be dug up again.
I'm prepared to live with a 700mb cap, than to have the main road here (which over the past few years has become a major route) dug up again, with traffic queuing for miles 50m away from my house.
Anyway, water pipes break because they're iron, and probably 100 years old.
New plastic piping is being laid.
The Tube was bored in during the industrial revolution and is getting 150 years old.
Anyway, back to point 1, if they did lay new fibre, they'd charge us £10 more a month and blame the recession. It's good as it is.
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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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I'm than happy with Be* been on them for just under a year and i've yet to be capped, written to regarding my use (those of you that know me, know I use it a lot!)
Uptime: 5 days, 1:34:00
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [GB/GB]: 65.41 / 18.89
Then again being owned by O2 seems to help as they were crowned recently as the best ISP, I'm all for faster speeds (gutted I moved house as my old house had fibre installed today with 100mb at the front door) but restricting said speeds is silly, if you haven't got the hardware in place to support the speeds 24/7 you shouldn't be selling it...
Is a test I've just done, router says I'm getting 19mb down and 2mb up, but hey ho.
150mb is awesome if they can support it all the time, as someone said it's like having a Veyron and only being able to run at 20mph twixt the hours of 1900 and 0000.
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arien617
Joined: Feb 01, 2006
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Just got this:
Out of 10mb - not bad for 9pm.
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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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shocking upload though...
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blerk
Joined: Jun 12, 2008
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From: London, UK
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It would be VERY bad planning if they dug the roads to put only a few fibres and then put it all back together. Then again being in Britain for a few years nothing surprises me much any more. For a country claiming to invent everything and being at forefront of everything some stuff is still stuck in the 16th century  Especially parts of London.
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arien617
Joined: Feb 01, 2006
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I'd say about 90% of Central London consists of listed buildings. The city will stay as it is for a long, long time.
And it's all better for it.
And yeah, the upload is crap. But that isn't really that important. It's the downstream for me.
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blerk
Joined: Jun 12, 2008
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From: London, UK
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You need enough upload to send the ACKs for your downloads though
There's a ratio but I can't recall it right now. You need atleast x upload to fill x download just for the ACKs of packets you receive. Be is the best choice for us downloaders 
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Posted: 2009-03-26 18:37
