Nothing, nothing.
bloody IT
No, bloody marketing.
Hard disk manufacturers are the same. They've historically used "millions of bytes" rather than "megabytes", so they sound larger than they are; now it's so entrenched that we're stuck with it. ADSL, which would you buy, a 512Kbps connection or a 128Kb/s connection? The latter is twice as fast as the former, but doesn't look as good (and it doesn't help when they advertise "speeds up to 8Mb" - that's downright fraudulent).
It's not "bloody IT," trust me, "IT" are royally cheesed off with the whole thing.
I used to get a wobbly to 2 to 3Mbps, then FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet) arrived 8)
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Interesting. On my mobile connection:
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It's not "bloody IT," trust me, "IT" are royally cheesed off with the whole thing.
I work in IT!.. and i hate marketing. I meant i get annoyed with IT sometimes
Bloody hell ... I need a LCD tv ...
Ha! I laugh at your 106.69 Mb/s, and I give you ...
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*snort*
One thing from this thread, it shows just what a disparity there is between connections across the country.
Here's my Speedtest.net result:
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Its true, the UK's telco situation sucks ass, Up in Scandinavia its common to have fiber to the home, they've had it for years.
