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Faster pussycat kill! kill!
Posted by simonw on Mon 10 Apr 2006 at 17:55
Today is the day BT rolls out the nice upgrades to 8Mbps for those that live near their exchanges in the UK. Being a UK Free Software Network subscriber (who are an Entanet reseller) I get upgraded automatically.
This evening my router says;
"Downstream Rate: 8128 Kbps"
Not quite the rate some Scandinavian are getting, but 4 times the speed for the same price, can't be bad. Of course now I feel obliged to find a site that can do 8Mbps downloads to test it out ;)
I'm replacing the car this week as well - from old smelly diesel, back to petrol, so it is life in the fast lane all round.
This evening my router says;
"Downstream Rate: 8128 Kbps"
Not quite the rate some Scandinavian are getting, but 4 times the speed for the same price, can't be bad. Of course now I feel obliged to find a site that can do 8Mbps downloads to test it out ;)
I'm replacing the car this week as well - from old smelly diesel, back to petrol, so it is life in the fast lane all round.