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As part of BT’s planned rollout of ADSL2+ technology, millions of its customers will find that their broadband connection has been speeded up, and in some cases this could mean speeds of up to 20 Mbps.
In many cases customers will experience only a slight improvement on the connection speed that they are currently getting through their up to 8 Mbps broadband service.
Those customers who are fortunate enough to find that their connection has increased will be pleased to hear that BT will not be charging them any extra, although the data download caps and the throttling of certain internet applications will of course remain in place.
The BT ADSL2+ service is planned to cover around forty per cent of the BT network by the end of the summer and around fifty five per cent by March 2010.
All very well and good but, what if you can only get 3Mbps due to poor quality copper links to the exchange?
They can have all the bandwidth they want but if they can’t deliver it to your door what is the point?
It’s not *free* – it’s paid for from my line rentals and the portion of my ISPs fees that go to BT for its wholesale ‘service’. BT are then graciously pleased to offer me 1Mbps (on a really good day) which is crammed onto a 50:1 contention trunk out of their exchange with up to 30% of my packets being thrown away in the process.
BT has a new business model – taxing rural users where there is no competition to subsidise services to urban users (where there is).
will wait and see, bt are very poor at delivering a good broadband service, and customer services/ india all read off scripts, im with bt and its a nightmare. over the last year my speed has got slower not faster starting at 3mbps now on 2mbps, not its not much but that just shows how bad there network is maneged, plus traffic shaping for bt vision, come peek time my speed is like dial up, well bt have upgrade there speeds to 20mbps and yep my exchange has not yet been upgraded (what a suprise) im going to vergin media after my contacts up, they has far bettter speeds on cabel, plus bt is expensive, and there new home hub 2.0 has loads of bugs,
RIP OFF B.T
bt have never been good at providing a broadband service, so still using the old copper line, im on a upto 8mbps only get 2mbps, only 2 months ago i got 3bmps, my ip profile has drop, yet again, phone india up, got no clues all read off scripts, why is my bt service geting slower over the months, phoned bt up about the new 20mbps and yep my exchange is not set up for it what a suprise, im changing isp as soon as my contracts up, plus they traffic shape with bt vision, so at peek times im dwn to dial up, infact how many of us have the new bt 20mbps ? i would advise everyone to stay away from b.t untill they inprove there poor network