last100.com — With an ever greater amount of video being consumed online, many Internet users are in for a shock. There?s a dirty little secret in the broadband industry: Internet Service Providers (ISPs) don?t have the capacity to deliver the bandwidth that they claim to offer.
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bzkyleMay 28, 2007
Yay! Grammar Nazis!
slapthemonkeyMay 29, 2007
Yeah!
shankarganeshMay 29, 2007
IN INDIA, "YES". IT'S HAPPENING ALREADY :(
Closed AccountMay 29, 2007
There are a few others who offer LLU services in select areas only - Virgin and BT are the only companies with significant coverage footprints.
markdr123May 29, 2007
@fuzzycatYes, he was talking about IN THE UK, and he's right. Most other providers like AOL resell packages from BT and in some cases Virgin. There are other smaller providers for specific areas, but none others with nationwide coverage.Incidentally, putting it like that, they seem to have a monopoly (or actually oligopoly) which is never a good thing.Edit: Neil beat me to it.
error601May 29, 2007
Uh...BS. No secret to anyone in the industry that cheap home service is priced on burst type use. Didn't you ever wonder what that that 1.5Mbit T1 will run you a couple hundred while 5Mbit cable service is $40? Just assumed it was magic?
error601May 29, 2007
There's a big difference between your transfer speed and your throughput. My car can go 150MPH yet a 10 mile trip doesn't happen in 3.6 minutes.