Graham Coles

UK

Software Engineer

It sounds to me like the first move should be made to strengthen the advertising laws so that 'broadband' connections should provide the kind of bandwidth advertised rather than just being a theoretical value that you might hope to achieve sometime in the middle of the night.

Forcing them to provide figures for maximum, average peak and average off-peak times will allow us to figure out the sort of broadband speeds we have at the moment. My guess is about a quarter of the bandwidth that the providers suggest we have!

Once we actually get a way of measuring what exists, we will at least be able to see if and when the figures improve.