Category: Broadband

It is that time of year when the chances of a rate adaptive ADSL line showing problems due to noise is more likely due to those good old flashing Christmas lights.

Seems like a case of deja-vu, it happened with the roll-out of ADSL, then the upgrades from 0.5 to 1Mbps and 2Mbps. Why do we need higher speeds?

Even faster broadband may be on the horizons after all, just not in the format you might have expected.

The £70m government funded project to provide broadband to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland is running six months behind schedule and £1.6m over budget.

A joint on-demand service by the BBC, Channel4 and ITV may lead to wider usage of the on-demand video services in the UK.

A 760km fibre cable linking the Faroe Islands to the Scottish mainland is to be used as part of the 21CN upgrades.

Some industry insiders are having cold feet over BT's 21CN roll-out whilst LLU operators push ahead with combined voice/data services.

It seems people have been digging again and Cox, a cable provider in the US, is the latest one to be found manipulating peer to peer traffic.

The battle continues it seems, various places compare the UK with its ADSL and ADSL2+ services to other countries and we come off worst very often, but who actually knows what sort of speeds other countries really get?

The growth of broadband continues and is edging closer to the point where the only people still not using it are those who have made a decision not to or cannot get some form of broadband connection.