BT & Virgin Media Mental Torture

By pobox112 | Wednesday, March 02, 2011, 23:39

With over 90 percent of the Devon County Council Area not

Planned for Devon - For Cornwall reverse the squares

being on any Fibre Optic Roll Out Plan. We have to put up with old worn out and

failing copper networks, well that seems to be the situation when there is so much variation in broadband speed.

There is a continual commercial bombardment from BT Total

Broadband and Virgin Media Broadband to get connected and enjoy superfast

broadband.

For the vast majority

of Devon these companies should be renamed ‘BT not really Total Broadband’ and ‘Virgin

Territory Media Broadband’.

Why are we without proper planning or push? There is enough over government and other

representation for Devon, can it all be so inept and disinterested?

I am beginning to believe the answer is a big Yes. This

opinion is formed from searching the internet, where you would expect information

to be. Organisations seem to be firmly

in bed with Devon County Council fast asleep.

Meanwhile the torture via every marketing medium you can think

of continues.

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I wanted to know what I was getting... so I did a quick test on here

http://tinyurl.com/lywc9

Just go to it and click on BEGIN TEST

But I got some friends to do it

Here are the results
They go Down load... up load.. Ping

Me Lamerton first 0.49 0.08 93
Me after eningeer 0.50 0.37 116
Me again after school 0.50 0.37 56
Isle of Mull 0.49 0.24 26
Exmouth 2.04 0.59 67
Plympton 4.56 0.73 125
Almeria Spain 0.85 0.20 163
Rye 2.44 0.38 33
Glasgow 50.28 1.62 16
Rugby 6.08 1.00 41
Tavistock 1.7 0.13 6
Tavistock 2 4.58 0.19 89
N. Virginia, USA 33.61 3.5 38
Bognor Regis 0.99 0.20 108
Maidenhead, 36.9 8.26 20
West Wales 0.83 0.35 108
Watchet, Somerset 3.03 0.36 59
Belfast 5.35 0.66 78
Kaiwaka, New Zealand 6.08 3.40 15
Norfolk 2.32 0.24 39
Manchester 9.86 0.98 28

So what are you getting???

Yorkie

By yorkiemalone at 17:39 on 04/03/11
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Don't be daft. While you are waiting for your music to download or whatever you are trying to do, why don't you just read a book. You used to do that before computers were invented!

By star2sparkle at 17:33 on 03/03/11
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In ignorance?

By pobox112 at 17:29 on 03/03/11
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All I can say is; how in the world did we live without broadband before? I know we did :-)

By star2sparkle at 15:30 on 03/03/11
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It is sad to read this when just a stone's throw away across the border, the situation is so different:

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are set to become one of the best connected locations in the world under an ambitious £132 million project announced by BT and Cornwall Council and supported by European funding. The project will benefit tens of thousands of local businesses, create 4,000 new local jobs and protect a further 2,000.

The area will benefit from faster broadband thanks to the creation of a high speed network that will be open to all communications providers on a wholesale basis. The aim is to give between 80 and 90 per cent of local businesses and homes access to super-fast fibre broadband by 2014.

http://tinyurl.com/4795wed

By WhitePig at 10:15 on 03/03/11
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