Re: [LUG] frabjous day caloo calay

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, David Bell wrote:

> On Sunday 05 December 2010 12:51:53 tom wrote:
>
> > Woke up this morning to find my BB have been upgrade from 512k to (?) 1.5M
>
> My BB (same excellent ISP) has also been upgraded, free of charge from 2Mb to
> max 8Mb. Result is about 6.8Mb  download speed.

Your ISP has moved you from a fixed-speed package to a rate adaptive 
package - very probably because it costs them less to run. It's still the 
same ISP behind the BT wholesale network handling the data - that's where 
the real bottleneck is.

Who's the ISP?

Gordon

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