By Peter Cochrane
Published: Wednesday 03 September 2008
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Mike McNamara
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Reading
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XML/CMS Consultant
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Interesting figures, just shows how much more work many software vendors have got to do to keep up with ever increasing broadband speed (but sadly not in the UK for the time being).
Are you able to name the Antivirus software vendors that were used in this test?
I keep a track of my BB speed using a cross-section of online speed tests to get a good average figure. I think I'm lucky to stay around the 4MB mark, but of course nowhere near the 'up to 8MB' con that still gets promoted.
Obviously, the AV/Firewall software is executed on...
DWL
Hallo Peter,
As usual a very interesting and need...
Anonymous
While the points you make are valid, this still ig...
Simon
Interesting figures, just shows how much more work...
Mike McNamara
DWL = Yep there are solutions - but not out in the...
Peter Cochrane
Simon = My (perhaps to) oblique point was that the...
Peter Cochrane
Anonymous = I never do product comparisons - but I...
Peter Cochrane
A friend of mine pointed out to me, in the course ...
Alastair Macfadyen
Alastair = In truth I don't use much coding or enc...
Peter Cochrane
Fascinating stats - but does beg the question are ...
Chris Mead
Excellent! Those of us who don't run AV software ...
Craig
2 points need to be made here:
1. The variable ra...
Andrew Went
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