24-megabit broadband launched at £24 a month

[dogmatique]

As far as I remember, BT's trials of their 8meg IP Stream finish in March, with it being offered to ISPs shortly after.

So most will be offering this service in a couple of months - and it seems to be very reliable.

Try that if you're not willing to risk 24meg. After all, downtime is nomeg.

 

[snadge]

could somebody please tell me what the point of a 24 meg line from BT is when they cap your bandwidth anyway?

 

[dogmatique]

BT don't provide 24 meg broadband yet, only Be* Unlimited do in the UK so far, and they don't cap your usage.

 

[polo]

Indeed that is 32 London based BE equipped exchanges out of 5591 nationally. Alright for some...

 

[Dask]

Wouldn't touch Be With a barge pole after all the shit that they've been putting their customers through.

The main thing I'm looking forward to with Adsl 2+ is the 1 Mbit upload speed.

 

[dogmatique]

That 1meg upload really makes a difference to your ratio when using bittorrent.

As I've said here and elsewhere, Be is fantastic when it works, a pain when it doesn't.

Depends whether you're willing to risk it...

 

[treelover]

Surely when this become the norm, the cultural industries: films, games, software, will be finished if you can dl a movie in 1 hr, or will they will bring in massive new laws to halt it....

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Surely when this become the norm, the cultural industries: films, games, software, will be finished if you can dl a movie in 1 hr, or will they will bring in massive new laws to halt it....

Depends on how it pans out, in theory they could just have the same control (and profiting making mechanism) by offering dl from better servers at a price. With the take up of "media centres" that could be one way for them to muscle in?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Thinking about more, maybe finished is the wrong word, perhaps they might just evolve? My hope would be to see a real rise of the indy creatives. Music, film etc makers being able to cut out the middle man (ie corporations) and deliver their wares directly to their audiences.

 

[jæd]

Thinking about more, maybe finished is the wrong word, perhaps they might just evolve? My hope would be to see a real rise of the indy creatives. Music, film etc makers being able to cut out the middle man (ie corporations) and deliver their wares directly to their audiences.

That will only happen when decent *upload* speeds are as cheap as chips...

 

[souljacker]

Surely when this become the norm, the cultural industries: films, games, software, will be finished if you can dl a movie in 1 hr, or will they will bring in massive new laws to halt it....

PCPro magazine has an article about 'why you need 24meg' in the latest issue. With that speed, you could recieve 2 channels of streaming HDTV whilst still surfing the web. So I'm guessing the media companies will offer content in this way and make a fair few quid from it.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

That will only happen when decent *upload* speeds are as cheap as chips...

Yep, I'd love nothing more than to see upload speeds speed up the way downloads speeds have.

 

[Dask]

if you can dl a movie in 1 hr....

I can already download xvid and divx films in under 20 minutes from giganews on my 10MB Blueyonder connection, I guess with 24 MB that would be under 8 minutes or so.

 

[dogmatique]

The fact is that at the moment, 24meg broadband doesn't have any kind of killer app to make it worthwhile to people apart from bare speed!

I don't see it as any kind of overkill, but merely a progression towards what the Internet could really be used for.

Spods like me downloading dvd rips from torrent sites is not a mass market.