So as you probably know, I recently built my own computer. It’s all going brilliantly. Except from one thing… Orange are a little bit annoying sometimes. In fact, they aren’t what you’d call an A* ISP. Their router is a little shabby (it can’t decide whether it prefers English or French, and it often forgets that …
Tag Archive: bandwidth
Dec
28
2009
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Sep
19
2009
ISPs should just tell us the bandwidth limit, and not claim “unlimited”
Following up from my investigation into which ISPs actually provide unlimited broadband, I am beginning to wonder why some ISPs advertise “unlimited” broadband when it clearly isn’t. It confuses me – why can’t ISPs just advertise the amount of bandwidth that you are actually allowed to use rather than advertising a service that isn’t correct? …
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Dec
23
2008
Executive of iPlayer suggests ISPs charge for high quality iPlayer
The executive in charge of the BBC iPlayer service has suggested that ISPs charge an extra flat rate charge of £10 per month to watch high quality streams of the iPlayer service. (Source) In my opinion, I think that this isn’t particularly fair. If we are paying for bandwidth and speeds to watch this, why …
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