http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/broadband_britain_journeys_end.html en-gb 30 Thu 03 Dec 2009 18:32:53 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/broadband_britain_journeys_end.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/broadband_britain_journeys_end.html?page=15#comment3 Until basics are achieved on delivering all sorts of media in the largest town in the middle of England what hope is there for the rest of the UK?I live in a town due to grow from about 190,000 to 300,000 in the next decade, my local exchange is next to the major housing development area, yet the best BT can offer is 2.5Mbs and even virgin, who send "the occupier" post every other week because there is cable in the street are only offering 2Mbs. I get no freeview where I live now, and only BBC on DAB - no commercial transmissions- but who wants anything other than radio 4 anyway? I grew up in rural scotland and know that there can be difficulties in infrastructure.... but really? A Digital UK? Mon 09 Jun 2008 12:10:39 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/broadband_britain_journeys_end.html?page=10#comment2 There is a problem with the understanding of how connection speed affects your surfing habits.If you connect to BBC iPlayer (the main reason for the BBC's interest in this matter) then to a certain extent your connection speed could make a difference. However, what many people do not realise is that if you connect to a slow site your connection speed will make almost no difference at all.Most sites are on Virtual servers - that is they share a computer with several other sites. Could be a hundred or more other sites. That is a big overhead on the server and the cable that connects it to the router to the outside world - chances are it is running slower than your connection.You will also have problems when connecting to servers in other countries - distance and the amount of data going down the international cables make a difference here.And back to the BBC iPlayer - that server too has a limit to how much it can pump out.Recently, I have upped my connection speed from 6mbps to 20. I have noticed NO change in speed for most sites at all. Including iPlayer.So, what was the problem again? Sat 07 Jun 2008 00:57:47 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/broadband_britain_journeys_end.html?page=5#comment1 @touchipjohn #1Nice post.@RoryPerhaps a more appropriate Journey's end would have been Lands End. That place where all that UK's trans-Atlantic internet traffic goes to-and-fro. Oh yes living along the good old A30, so close and yet so far from all that internet bandwidth.Oh and why we're at WiMax and the BBC's 700MHz slice of the radio spectrum, my family who live down there are all fed up of paying a TV license when they live in a transmission dead-spot. Pretty stone age living down there - you should give it a go. Fri 06 Jun 2008 18:42:59 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/broadband_britain_journeys_end.html?page=0#comment0 Broadband in the UKThere is a major opportunity for UK plc to try to catch up with the rest of the world as far as supplying broadband to the citizens of the UK is concerned.The BBC (Licence Fee Payers) own the rights to the 700MHz spectrum and this is due to be released after the digital switch over in 2012This frequency is absolutely ideal for WiMAX due to its broadcast-attractive physics (like its ability to penetrate walls), this spectrum is desirable for both broadband communications in general and public-safety uses in particular.and if someone could overcome the "Vested Interests" and get this technology to the general public as well as the Licence Fee Payers, the UK would be leading in innovation.Intel Corp or Google I am sure would be absolutely delighted to roll-out across the UK their WiMAX systems and I for one would sign up immediately.The benefit to the UK would be enormous, not least in enabling those people who do not have acces to computers to get connected and join in the fun. Fri 06 Jun 2008 17:22:50 GMT+1