Cable vs. ADSL

[Phiebs]

Just a thought...

[Dukeh]

cable 0wns j00! :E

[KermitTheFrag]

..yeah and u dont have to put up with BT

[Cabe]

im sooooooooo gonna throttle some of those gimps at NTL: there not giving me a stright answer on when its gonna be availablre :(

[MONK]

I have to go with ADSL you can at least get it!

[Cabe]

Damned Right!, if BT woundnt tie me into a 12month contract i'd be OK with getting ADSL until cable came along, but BT will be getting some phone calles from me tommora anyhow.

[Zenith]

At least you guys can GET ADSL or cable... no such luck here for quite some time!
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[afty]

Look, it's really simple, you simply have to move to somewhere with more houses, and less sheep.

If that sounds too hard, you could always get counselling.

[Cabe]

this should ease Zenith's woes if he move's

http://members.nbci.com/vulkie/esheep.htm

[mattb]

Here's my 2p worth.

I've just moved back to the UK from the US.

I had ADSL and it was great, that is until everyone else in my area was attached to the same DSLAM (piece of ISP equipment that concerntrates DSL Lines to the ISP) and my bandwidth dropped through the floor and my pings rocketed through the ceiling.

So I moved to cable, same problem a few months later.

Its the age old story of contention, its been arround since dialup ISP access was publically available. If you have 1000 people sharing a 1MB connection then it doesn't matter if your cable or ADSL provider can give you 100MB to your house as soon as you hit the "outside world," you hit everyone elses traffic.

If you can, find out what the contention is like at the ISP, most of them probably wont tell you.

[Phiebs]

Yeah - interesting m8, but in my experience I have found that cable wh00ps ADSL's ass - but not VDSL - 6m/sec and 10:1 contention :p

Well I gotta go, speak later

[MONK]

BT are doing 50:1 on there home user which means from 10Kbps to 500Kbps.... thats @ £40 a month.

for a bussiness or home user wanting more.....

50:1 @ 500Kb it's £46
20:1 @ 500Kb it's £118
20:1 @ 1.0Mb it's £152
20:1 @ 2.0Mb it's £188

Of course the problem is if all 50 user are maxing it then you will drop to 10Kbps 5 times slower than on a 56K modem but then what are they going to be downlaoding for 24/7 at thoes types of speed!

Rollout areas

CURRENTLY WITHIN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:
Birmingham, Belfast, Cambridge, Cardiff, Coventry, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes and Newcastle.

In the following months BT plans to provide further exchanges in England, moving into the Home Counties (Oxford and Newbury), the South Coast (Brighton, Bournemouth and Hastings), the South West (Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Portsmouth and Taunton), and expanding coverage in the North, throughout Blackburn, Carlisle, Durham, Liverpool, Warrington and York.

Further rollout within the UK will extend into Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, including Aberdeen. We are on target to increase exchanges coverage to half of the UK's home and businesses by mid 2001 and to reach 70% coverage by the end of the next year.
There are a couple of factors that will affect whether or not broadband from BTopenworld is currently available on your line:



First of all, has your local exchange been set up to support broadband from BTopenworld (and you can check this from the bottom of this page).

Second, ADSL (which powers BTopenworld) is distance dependant which means that service degrades significantly where your premises are beyond 3.5 km (approx.) from the local exchange. We will check this to ensure that your line supports the full service before going ahead with providing service. Around 85% of the UK population live within this distance from their exchange.

[ziggy12345]

As I live in the sticks I would have to wait until 2010 before ADSL was available so I plumped for ISDN instead

The ping times a great but my bank is now empty!

Prblem I have now is that if I want to change from ISDN to ADSL i first have to pay for a conversion back to Anologue and then ADSL which is an extra £50.

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