Comments on: UK Government considering broadband a ‘universal entitlement’ http://cloudofdata.com/2009/01/uk-government-considering-broadband-a-universal-entitlement/ Linked Data, Cloud Computing, Semantic Web, SaaS, PaaS, more Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Lee Hampton-Whitehead http://cloudofdata.com/2009/01/uk-government-considering-broadband-a-universal-entitlement/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Lee Hampton-Whitehead Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:16:23 +0000 http://2072674504#comment-169 re speed there are three separate issues here 1. what is technicaly possible 2. how the ISPs advertse it 3. how much connectivity the ISP has Until widley BT impliment Fibre to cab, distance from the exchange is always going to effect ADSL connections, that is a physics thing, the problem is that ISPs oversell the 8Mps feature then of coutse youi may get a 8Meg connect to the exchange and the ISP can't maintain the throughput, (easy to fix, get a better ISP) re. ‘universal service commitment’ two many assumptions are made about internet access, and broadband internet access to ‘universal service commitment’ will be of great benefit to society, but it kicks off a whole discssion about computers for deprived households, while prventing cyber criminals and the like abusing the system, re speed
there are three separate issues here
1. what is technicaly possible
2. how the ISPs advertse it
3. how much connectivity the ISP has

Until widley BT impliment Fibre to cab, distance from the exchange is always going to effect ADSL connections, that is a physics thing, the problem is that ISPs oversell the 8Mps feature

then of coutse youi may get a 8Meg connect to the exchange and the ISP can’t maintain the throughput, (easy to fix, get a better ISP)

re. ‘universal service commitment’
two many assumptions are made about internet access, and broadband internet access to ‘universal service commitment’ will be of great benefit to society, but it kicks off a whole discssion about computers for deprived households, while prventing cyber criminals and the like abusing the system,

]]> By: Tom Morris http://cloudofdata.com/2009/01/uk-government-considering-broadband-a-universal-entitlement/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Tom Morris Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:39:12 +0000 http://2072674504#comment-168 A cop out, I agree. If they gave a crap, they'd be pushing the ISPs to stop advertising all this 'up to Xmb' and 'fair use policy' crapola and provide us with what we really want: fat pipe, always on, get out of the way. A cop out, I agree. If they gave a crap, they’d be pushing the ISPs to stop advertising all this ‘up to Xmb’ and ‘fair use policy’ crapola and provide us with what we really want: fat pipe, always on, get out of the way.

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