Blueyonder users to get 10 meg

[Boomy]

Looks like us 4 meg users (and 2 meg) are shortly going to be getting a 10 meg service for the princely sum of...naff all

Read about it here.

[adhawkins]

NTL users are too. Top package users will get it first, everyone else by the end of next year apparently.

Andy

[Boomy]

Actually i just realised, it's £35 for the 10 meg service, so if you are on 4 meg at the moment you also save £15 a month!

Of course it depends what you use the good old intraweb for as to how much benefit you will get from such speed.It also depends what sites you visit and what you wish to download i guess.But, it sure makes that haunting dee dee doo doo beeeeeeeeeeeee beeeeee bung bung 56k dial up noise seem like some horrible nightmare from years gone by.

I remember getting a 100 meg demo once on 56k, it took us around 12 hours.It currently would take a few minutes!

How things change huh?

For years broadband seemed to be a thing of the future, something that maybe our kids would get to use when we were old, grey and not at all interested.Despite the fact our friends across the pond rubbed our noses in it in terms of internet speeds we just seemed to never really progress over here.

We were quite pleased to have a 56k upgrade from 33 or even 14.4 and sat with our mice hovvering over the little 'connected' icon to see just how well our hardware was coping and how fast it was running.

Oh the joy of maintaining a 5+kbs download!.In reality we all knew what was around the corner and that 56k was a joke if you ever wanted to download anything bigger than a meg or two.

Then as if by magic and after years of waiting, we went to bed one night, slipped our V90's under the pillow and awoke to realise the broadband fairy had visited and left us all cable modems!!

I can still just about stomach using old and slow PC's, i can also live without 178 speed cd writers (or whatever they are probably up to now) but the noise of a 56k modem when you want to help fix a mates PC and need a 20+ meg driver makes me want to strip the wires from the phone socket with my teeth, run naked into the garden screaming (contaminated clothes you see) and drown myself in the pond.

Bring on 10 meg and beyond for all i say, in fact, we are still years behind certain areas in Japan i hear, 100meg services cost less than our 10 meg services will over there.

Sorry for waffling..i was just remembering the doo doo dee dee bung bung days!  

[CrashBangWallop]

Lucky bu99ers!  Our ADSL connection has only been tested by BT to handle 1 meg because we're right at the end of the connection

[pistonbroke2]

Are they goin to upgrade our westys for free ?

[steve_m]

I remember when there was no publically available Internet !    I used to dial into BBS's using a 1200 baud modem (often connected at 300 ! ) and leave/read messages on a board.  

That was only about 16 or 17 years ago    

[SteveRST]

I'm still using 500k broadband.   Damn, getting left behind. LOL.

Yep, first modem that I used was 1200 baud. It was given to me around 1991.     Then I got a 9.6k modem and was on various 'Warez' boards and BBS systems. Before the interweb LOL.

To put that in perspective, 1200 baud is 1.2k or 0.0012 Meg. And now were talking about a 10 Megabit connection. LOL! To think that I am only 26 now, and had that first ancient modem about 15 yrs ago.  Makes me feel old  

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

I remember when there was no publically available Internet !    I used to dial into BBS's using a 1200 baud modem (often connected at 300 ! ) and leave/read messages on a board.  

That was only about 16 or 17 years ago    

dial into BBs's! By 'eck, when I were t'lad I had to talk to mates wi' a bit a string and two cocoa tins  

[Boomy]

Talking of how quickly things progress in the PC market, this thread reminded me that my first (x2 speed even though it only worked at x1) DVD writer cost me £350 second hand!!

But get this, my first 10 blanks cost me £150!!!.Yes, £15 a blank and there were more expensive ones than that too!

I also remember my first blank cd costing just over £10 and you could only purchase a certain small quantity of them at that time.

The cd writer to go with them was a traxdata x 4 iirc costing just under £300.

Then again, an orchid 3d accelerator card for £250, a P3 700 cpu for £560, a geforce 2 ultra for £400.....the list goes on and on as to how shocking prices were if you wanted to get the latest and greatest.

Spent fortunes on pc's in my time and i still find it hard to believe how cheap cpu's, ram, hard drives and dvd writers are today.

I guess one day they will be free in cereal packets