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I wish. Is this rolling out to consumers over there?

Prohibitively expensive here - even for most businesses. It would be serious overkill for most people and SOHO businesses.

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I've had bt infinity for a couple of months and I am very pleased with it.

There is little discernable difference in speed but then it was pretty quick before.

The clincher for me was that the new package worked out cheaper than the old one so a no brainer really.

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Sheesh, that's less than I'm paying for my 4Mb line.

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Glad to hear it's not just Australia that has rubbish broadband. Our claimed 21 mbps is actually a shade under 5 but we still have to pay for the 21. They're painfully slowly rolling out the fibre-optic but I'll be dead before it gets here.

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I don't think it's the optical media that's letting us down. It's the bottle necks in between that slow it all up. If we had fibre optic cables throughout the networks then everything would be running fine. It's the copper cable in between that slows it up.

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Yes, UPC, fine thanks.

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Great for gaming.

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Originally posted by Sicilian Sausage
I don't think it's the optical media that's letting us down. It's the bottle necks in between that slow it all up. If we had fibre optic cables throughout the networks then everything would be running fine. It's the copper cable in between that slows it up.
Copper, yes, but also don't forget the ISPs shaping bandwidth as they see fit.