Simon

Cumbria

IT

"... new advances in broadband technology appear to be having an adverse effect ..."

No, it's not the advances in technology, it's the plain greed and incompetence of the vendors.

Simple facts are that most 'speed' problems are caused by the vendors being too tight ar**d to buy the bandwidth needed to service the customers - in other words, they are selling more than they've got and hoping that people won't notice.

Of course, that comes on top of all the stupid hype where all the products are sold on some theoretical but not achievable speed - very, very few get anything even remotely close to 8M on their 'up to 8M' lines.

So My Public gets his "8M line" and finds that he can't ever get better than 4M (ADSL limits), and most of the time when he wants to use it he can't get even 1M (cheapskate ISPs bandwidth problem) - is it any wonder that people are not happy ?

And of course, if this weren't enough, we get this clamour to be the cheapest - instead of the best. So anyone that goes with free and expects anything but nothing deserves all they get and the idiots selling them disappointment deserve to be put against the wall when the revolution comes ! Anyone with 2 brain cells knows that it costs money to provide a service, need I say more ?