News South Yorkshire gets 25Mb/s fibre

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009/11/25/south-yorkshire-gets-25mb-s-fibre/1

A £90 million investment scheme is set to see homes and businesses across South Yorkshire offered 25Mb/s broadband connections by the end of 2012.

 

I suppose they had to find a way to unclog the backlog of sheep porn downloads.

 

pft the north, south yourkshire is south of me D:

Think you're thinking of Wales there

 

Greetings!

Am curious...
What is the best service available to UK consumers, bandwidth-wise?

 

50 Mbit Down / 1.5Mbit Up
Pretty pathetic compared to the rest of the world tbh.

 

On business line here, get 60mbit up, 60mbit down. Nothing wrong with that

andy

 

@andrew8200m who do you get that off? And for how much per month?

 

Not a clue who it's off in allhonesty, it's provided to us by the company so that we can use vmware to run server 2003 and then access the exact same server over at hq in real time. Not a clue who any of it works, I just do it and it runs. Never been one for networking.

Andy

 

Lease lines like your 60mbit down/60mbit up cost serious cash per month - many hundreds of pounds, if not thousands.

Good to see BB infrastructure improvements like these. Even with the rollout of BT's 21stC network the UK is embarrassingly behind the global leaders in internet speeds. I wish we could rip out the ageing copper network and get fibre to cabinet everywhere but the investment required would be frightening.

It's disgraceful that Virgin Media offers such a shoddy upload speed on its network though. I suppose it's designed for consumers, not producers but if you want to use online storage for example it's crap.

 

In my mind, until I see 100up/100down, I will consider britain to be lagging behind other developed nations.
Sadly The USA will be the dealbreaker in all of this. As long as they don't have next generation broadband, applications won't be developed to take advantage of the speeds, and everything will stagnate until they catch up, which will probably be around the time the UK catches up, which is to say, if it happened tomorrow, it would already be late.

 

Even if they do have to pay, its about time some sort of upgrade was made. Was it one this site or the news they where saying about using the old analogue transmitters to get broadband to all? Wonder how fast and how much it will cost

 

lol if thales are doing it, then i wouldn't get your hopes up. They recently lost all their contract's with our company for generally being crap and really slow to fix stuff. Could be amusing

 

It's one thing to say these places are getting this, what they don't mention yet is whats areas. I live in Doncaster but no where near the town center and you just know that it's only a radius of 1-2 miles from there that will get it. With any luck they'll target areas that are not able to get cable broadband so more people have access to faster speeds.

 

Except the USA, where they would give their left arm for speeds like that, and most European countries, where that is competitive, and South America, and most of Asia (excluding S. Korea and Japan), and Australasia. 50 meg down is perfectly adequate for pretty much any legitimate domestic use, up to and including streaming multiple 1080p HD streams, and 1.5 meg up is more than enough for most.

Our infrastructure isn't perfect by any means, but it is improving and we are keeping pace with most of the world. Yes there are the high profile fibre rollouts in S. Korea, Japan, Sweden and very limited city centre areas in France, but these are the exception, not the rule. Those places have a big advantage over the UK in that they aren't trying to upgrade a triumph of Victorian engineering to cope with uses for which it simply wasn't designed - while those countries were still mucking about with telegrams and carrier pigeons the UK had a fairly sophisticated (by early 20th Century engineering standards) and wide reaching public telephone network. As I'm sure many of us on bit-tech know all too well, one drawback of being an early adopter is you can get left with a big investment in obsolete kit, and that is where the UK is now.

BT is doing its bit, rolling out fibre to the cabinet at least, which should give wide access to 40 mb/s services. Virgin is already offering 50 mb/s in cabled areas. Fibre to the home is a bit of a pipedream at the moment, but to be honest if you need more than 40/50 meg you aren't within the normal envelope of domestic use and it is reasonable to expect you to pay for a business oriented solution.

 

Guess I'll be lucky living in Sweden. I have 100/100mbit fiber för 100skr a month, that is 8.88gbp with today's exchange rate. And I've had that for 5 years soon. Even had 2 100/100mbit lines for a while =D

 

Go on, rub it in, you smug Swede.

 

About £500/month for a leased 100Mbit Ethernet connection from Manchester to London. And then, it's only dark fibre from the office to data centre - still have to provide your own transit to the Internet when it gets there.

But for that money you do get some epic monitoring. Turn it off, within 5 minutes there's a personal e-mail, in another 5 there's a phone call. If only BT/VM cared quite so much...

Quote for truth. The amount of times I've had to explain to people what the "broadband tax" (uninformed, idiotic, daily-heil nomenclature that it is) was really for, has been ridiculous.

Virgin Media's service, whilst advertising nice-looking numbers, is incredibly over-sold and doesn't represent the same quality of service that you could obtain by paying the same amount of money to a service-orientated (as opposed to sales-orientated) ISP for an ADSL2+ service.

In reality though, unless I'm downloading ISO-sized files, I really don't notice a huge amount of difference between a symmetric 100Mbit connection and my 6Mbit/500Kbit ADSL at home, and there's even less difference when compared to the 11Mbit/1.5Mbit BeThere connection that I used to enjoy.

 

+1 god I miss my 100/100 line when was I was living downtown.

Now its 24/4 (upspeed may vary) and I can't convince my wife to let me pull in 100/100 for our house (would be the only one in the neighborhood) since the cost for the work is close to 40,000sek. now if I can convince my neighbors that it's necessary then we can all split that cost. . . .

 

noooo, they need to come and upgrade Leicestershire/Warwickshire rural broadband.

 

Yorkshire is north.

Booya! Finally a decent net connection for me!