Eddie Muir wrote:A
BIG thank you.
You're welcome, but there's no need to be so polite! You'll have Nigel in a bad mood at this rate.
Philip Mannering wrote:I think it's a bad cable, since everybody in the neighbourhood have got the same slow speed! nOt that they care about it very much, for reason best known to themselves.
Oh golly, this is the sort of thing that makes my blood boil. My first reaction is to STOP PAYING THEM for broadband services when you're getting nothing anywhere close. What can they do -- disconnect you? That might actually SPEED UP your internet.
I know you're too young to deal with this, Philip, and I feel for you, as well as everyone else on your street. But seriously, any company that acted like that here in the US, or in the UK, would be laughed out of business. "Normal" my foot.
If my math (sorry, Tony, I mean "maths" -- private joke) is correct, 0.18 mbps is 180 kbps, and the fastest basic dial-up you can have is 56 kbps, with the slowest around 23 kbps (which is what I had to suffer when I first moved here). So yes, your narrowband is faster than dial-up, but only about three times faster. Three times faster sounds like a lot until you consider that even the very slowest average broadband speed (1.9 mbps) is at least 33 times faster than dial-up, and about 10 times faster than yours. My own connection is, I know, quite a bit faster than other countries, but this is really how it
should be:
That's 163 times faster than dial-up, or 50 times faster than your connection, Philip. Seriously, Bharti actually charge for your narrowband?