יום חמישי, 3 במרץ 2011
UK regulator finds average broadband half advertised speeds (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Many a broadband customer has been excited to pay extra money and upgrade their service to new high-bandwidth technologies that promise they’ll be able to download movies and music in just seconds. However, a nearly equal number of broadband customers have also been dismayed when, once everything is hooked up, they rarely seem to get anywhere near the amount of bandwidth their ISPs claim to be selling them. Now the UK’s telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, has released research looking at nearly a dozen broadband packages that represent about 90 percent of broadband subscribers in the UK. The results? The average download speed available to broadband users is still less than half the “up to” speeds advertised by most providers.
