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Mark wrote: > On Wednesday 28 June 2006 11:37, James Fidell wrote: > >>Julian Hall wrote: >> >>>FYI :) >>> >>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/5123118.stm >> >>Accuracy in journalism; gotta love it. >> >>It's 50 times faster than typical broadband at 100Mb/s, so presumably >>typical broadband is now 2Mb/s. (I wonder what proportion of Cornwall >>can get that?) >> >> >>James > > > I was just going to say the same thing.... > > Here, I get 512kb - so the Goonhilly connection is 200 times faster than me. > Perhaps instead of spouting about the technology they have, they need to roll > out a spot of realistic connectivity to the rest of rural Britain? > > Mark > I thought here in North Norfolk was pretty rural - we were certainly one of the later exchenges to get DSL enabled and I started at 512Kbs too. However, a few months back my ISP upgraded me to 2Mbps (and reduced my monthly subscription) and now, for the same money I have MAX ADSL which can achieve 'up to' 8Mbps depending on the cable conditions. I currently get anywhere between 3.9 and 5.2Mbps. Ian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html