The UK Broadband market could see another high speed shake up from UK Online. The company has just announced plans to launch an 8 megabit broadband service in the UK.
With a massive download speed of 8mb, the service comes with a somewhat limited upload speed of 400K yet has an impressive content ratio of 33:1. The service is capped at 500GB per month, and will cost only £39.99 per month. Cable rival Telewest offer a 4MB service for £50.00, which comes free of any caps on usage. UK Online will be offering new sign ups a free wireless ethernet router before the 21st February.
Chris Stening, manager of UK Online, said “We want to enable consumers to experience the benefits of Broadband 8000, anywhere in their home, with the freedom that WiFi provides. The 8Mb service is already proving extremely popular, and with this offer, we’re confident that even more customers will be tempted to try the UK’s fastest home Internet connection for themselves.”
UK Online are working with European ISP Easynet to 'un-bundle' the local loop, previously the bastion of ex-state telco BT. They claim that the service will be "available to over 4.4 million homes across the Britain by early 2005." UK Online claim to be the first company in the UK offering consumers 8mb broadband; how long before the rest start playing catch up?
View: Can I Get It? | UK Online Homepage
With a massive download speed of 8mb, the service comes with a somewhat limited upload speed of 400K yet has an impressive content ratio of 33:1. The service is capped at 500GB per month, and will cost only £39.99 per month. Cable rival Telewest offer a 4MB service for £50.00, which comes free of any caps on usage. UK Online will be offering new sign ups a free wireless ethernet router before the 21st February.
Chris Stening, manager of UK Online, said “We want to enable consumers to experience the benefits of Broadband 8000, anywhere in their home, with the freedom that WiFi provides. The 8Mb service is already proving extremely popular, and with this offer, we’re confident that even more customers will be tempted to try the UK’s fastest home Internet connection for themselves.”
UK Online are working with European ISP Easynet to 'un-bundle' the local loop, previously the bastion of ex-state telco BT. They claim that the service will be "available to over 4.4 million homes across the Britain by early 2005." UK Online claim to be the first company in the UK offering consumers 8mb broadband; how long before the rest start playing catch up?
View: Can I Get It? | UK Online Homepage
Features:
- Support DivX, Xvid, Mpeg4, Mov, AVI, WMV video format and much more
- Support AC3, DTS, PCM, OGG, MP3 and much more audio format
- NTSC / PAL format or auto
- Widescreen, full screen or auto
- Automatic chapter creation
- Preview mode to check if the source is not damaged
- Quality mpeg2 encoder
- Fast mpeg2 encoder ( up to 60fps )
- Save dvd structure on hard drive or burn to a blank dvd
- Compatible with CopyToDVD
- Multilingual support
And jezuz.... that's ~AU$100. I know we're getting speed upgrades soon... but a quota of 500GB?!?!?! Holy crap.
$70/month CAD (so $23 each)
That doesnt make sense
slighty???? they capped more than 50% of the upload... they call that slighty????
8 megabyte? You mean 8 megabit.
Oh and the correct jaggen is 8Mb, not 8mb
2. The correct units are actually 'megabits per second' ('Mb/s' or 'Mbps').
3. 'Jaggen' is not a word.
4. The author of the article is highly unlikely ever to read your comment, so what purpose does it serve?
5. Placing a wink smiley after your comment makes you look even more stupid, as it indicates your attitude is that you are doing us all a favour by providing us with such a treasure of a post.
Last edited by 33167 on 27 Jan 2005 - 14:58
1) that's an assumption
2) the units are correct, what you just wrote (Mbps) is called a DERIVED unit
4) if the dumbass author does not know the significance of proper casing for SI prefixes, i dont want to hear of any other garbage he has to say
5) youre ASSUMING the smiley is winking, it could be that the smiley's eyes are fuct up.
waste delivery, i just dont think you have the smarts to be the badass posting cop that you think you are.
You sir are an idiot.
1. I was correcting his mistakes, shouldn't mistakes be corrected?
2. Yes thoughs are the correct units, but 1. Everybody knows what they meant.
3. Sorry, made a spelling mistake. Jargon. Look it up: Google.
4. He read my comment and many others, did you see some of his mistakes corrected? I suggest you try reading more often.
5. You have a wild imagination. My attitude is polite, is yours?
6. And lastly, You Suck. Gfed.
im sure this is old news read about it last year and have seen adverts in various mags for the last few months
Was gonna post the same thing, even though I hate old news posts.
www.adslguide.org.uk < good place for keeping up with UK Broadband news.
Still nowhere near Japan's 100Mbit VDSL at cheap prices though.
In France we can have 20Mb (2000Ko/s)and 1Mb upload (120Ko/s) for 30 euros/month (with unlimited download of course)
This UK thing is so godamn expensive
http://www.free.fr
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Sweden sounds awesome, poor copyright laws (well good for the customers
Uk sucks, yeah good one. Bork off.
It's common knowledge within the UK that the prices suck. You've surely heard of "Rip-off Britain".
What does suck is the price for high-speed internet in the UK, though.
I expected as much as i live near the coast, but at the moment i have 1.1MB/s for £33 a month (no cap). The upload is only 256k though... we need services with BETTER UPLOAD RATES!
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Everything except the last mile is going to be digital, newly built houses may have the last mile done in fibre which could mean really really fast and relativly cheap broadband.
The UK is behind now but just wait a few years, no other country is commiting to such a scheme.
Agreed, I believe that my tinpot exchange (only 3 miles from biggest south coast PoP BTW) will be upgraded by 2009 just as much as I believe my tinpot TV transmitter (4 poxy channels) will be upgraded to digital before they turn off the analogue signal in 2008.
As opposed to what? Anything we have now? This is such a likely scenario: Having gouged customers for the last n years, the providers suddenly have a fit of philanthropy and drop prices. Yeah right. Pass the bong when you're done with it.
I want fast internet with insane caps, but that's not gonna happen for a while in Canada, Vancouver. We're paying $40 CAD a month for 1.5Mb/512Kb, with caps of 10Gigabytes within a few months (perhaps... it's unlimited now).
My ISP is upgrading its services from 5mb to 8mb later this year, cant wait for that
The fiber optic internet is here in the US, Verizon is now offering starter packages from 10-15Mb up/1-5 down speeds for $40.00, which is cheaper than most DSL packages now at $60.00. The only thing we'd be getting at this point for buying such high speed access, is nothing but bragging rights. I use 1.5, as I suspect alot of people do...but my average d/l speed for the past 6 months hasn't been anywhere near my peak...somewhere around 40-70k/s at best...and I consider myself lucky if I am connected to someone which lets me d/l at 170-220k/s as I should be getting.
The true benefits of a fast connection, putting your money to work for you, is if the majority of servers/computers out there share similar connections.....and until that time, the only thing you're truly paying for, is bragging rights.
and the majority of decent download servers use up 100mbit+ lines. also i can imagine using this if hosting a game. and when you mention connected to one person, thats one person i dont mean if your just using aim or msn but if your using bittorrent you can easily use that bandwidth up on popular torrents
The benefit of large bandwidth internet will be most felt when the majority of the lines we use, switch over to fiber optic. Very similar to the Internet 2 that colleges use, they benefit because the entire system is designed from the ground up, using large b/w equipment and computers. It will take time, but soon even the slowest of speeds we seen d/ling, are going to be around 1.5mb/s.
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I know people on 3mb and only download at 30kb so it's not going to make a difference if I got to 1mb since the upload speeds stay the same so if I download from someone with BB, I'm only going to get the same even if they have a fast connection.
high prices, caps all the way up your as*es, not as bad as aussies tho
good thing there's been a competition war over here (france), since late 2003 we can enjoy uncapped and unlimited ADSL (up to 8Mbit/1Mbit) and ADSL2+ (up to 20Mbit/1Mbit) for prices around 30€ a month, sometimes including free phone (unlimited calls to fixed lines), free TV over DSL etc... basic ADSL packages starting at 14.99 a month (full speed ADSL that is)
It was on small scale trials before. and you had to pre-order everywhere
It is now "live" in many major cities.
Well, I think I'll still rather have 860kbps up rather then 400kbps up as that will likely effect game play on on-line games.
8mbps sounds really optomistic to me. Who's going to provide you with a 8mbps download stream out there on cyberspace? Well, I guess it is all comming...
(and then everything will be in place for my doomsday device....
They have Reading central, and Reading South, but nor Reading North
This is a Big move for the UK and hopefully it will start the Battle of the ISP's
Woohoo!
check out Australian ADSL prices/options @ whirlpool.net.au
Alot of us pay equal around 20-30 quid for usually 512/256 ADSL with caps or "shaping" - either by means of usage caps (over 10/20gig and be locked down to 6kb/sec) or peaking areas - 20gig total dl in off peak, 10gig in peak etc.
I have lived in the UK and was uber impressed by Virgin.net's 24.99quid a month for unlimited 512/256 - coming from oz I was very happy indeed.
So for all those people complaining - let's keep it simple man - be grateful for what you have, cos there's always someone worse off.
You don't know what you got until it's gone (pave paradise).
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