24 Mb Consumer Broadband Launched

Marc

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The US continues to fall behind... Now THIS is SPEED!

The Guardian is reporting that broadband provider "Be" is providing customers with the option of a 24 megabits per second download speed connection. These speeds are roughly three times the closest local competitor and also allow 1.3 megabits per second upstream, roughly five times quicker than any other service provider.
24-megabit broadband launched at £24 (US $42.84) a month

Hilary Osborne
Monday September 26, 2005

A new broadband service offering a connection up to 24 times faster than other providers at less than double the price began a national rollout today.

For £24 a month customers of broadband provider Be are being offered a download speed of up to 24 megabits a second, three times that available from closest rivals UK Online, Bulldog and Homechoice and 12 times that on offer from BT and Wannadoo.

The bandwidth offered by the new service will be enough to allow consumers to stream two high definition TV channels through their computer simultaneously, while they surf their internet or make voice calls.

The service will also allow customers to upload information onto the internet at a speed of up to 1.3 megabits a second - five times quicker than any other service on the market.

"This radically advanced capability will change the way people use their computers and opens up a world of opportunities as exciting as the advent of broadband itself," said Dana Pressman, managing director of Be.

The company has been trialling its service since the beginning of September and it is now available across much of London.

To subscribe customers must have a BT phone line and pay a connection fee of £24.

Paul Smyth, a spokesman for Be, said the national rollout would begin in major cities and would take up to a year to complete. Consumers can find out if the service is available on their line on the website www.bethere.co.uk. Mr Smyth said that while standard broadband connections allowed people to download music from services like iTunes at a rate of one track in four minutes, the Be connection would enable them to download seven albums in the same time.

He added that customers would be provided with a "Be Box", a wireless router including two phone ports, and that the company planned to later offer voice over internet protocol (VoIP) which would allow people to make calls using their computers.

"Be is relatively pioneering when you consider people are still announcing one meg unlimited broadband and we are making available up to 24meg connections at only just over twice the price," he said.

"What we're trying to be competitive on is not necessarily the price, though, but the technology."

Blair Wadman, broadband product manager at comparison website uSwitch, said the deal was competitive.

"It's £10 a month more expensive than the average broadband service but considering what you're getting it's a good price," he said.

"If you're just surfing the internet and sending emails though you will be fine with a £15 a month broadband connection."
 
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Wes Bucey

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What's the fastest speed most websites are providing content? For example, how fast does the Cove's hired server supply content?

I still recall the days of a 14.4 K modem!
 

Wes Bucey

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Marc said:
I think this server is on a 100 Mbps port (but the total monthly bandwidth is 'metered') which is directly connected to several optic backbones.

See: http://www.servermatrix.com/about_us.html for data center details.

Gee, you don't remember 300 baud???
Mercifully forgotten, along with fax transmission on curly paper with an image that made it seem like reading through a venetian blind!

In more recent memory, I recall paying about the equivalent of a car payment for an ISDN line every month!
 
J

JerryStem

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My Zoomtown connection (Hi speed from phone company, ADSL?) will THEORETICALLY spit out bits at very high speed too. But very often I'm still sitting & waiting for my DeviantArt site to ever show up...

Also, I remember a 110/300 baud acoustic coupler modem at my junior high school around 1983 or so. (I had 300 then 2400 at home. Then 33.6 when it FIRST came out. Woohoo, ahead of the curve for once...)

Jerry
 
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