Broadband connections worse than dial up?

Some Broadband connections worse than dial up?

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UK Broadband Independent Assessment – Just adequate for now

UK has been ranked 25th in terms of its broadband quality and penetration of broadband network. This statistic emerged out of a study done globally on 66 countries on the current status of broadband coverage and efficiency.

This study conducted for Cisco also revealed that Latvia and Bulgaria had made significant improvements in their broadband network and were better placed as compared to UK to usher in the next wave of advanced broadband applications. UK was grouped with other countries whose broadband UK network and quality was just enough to meet current requirements.

The countries which continue to be leaders in this field are South Korea and Japan where there has been persistent commitment to upgrade networks and South Korea have made it their mission to provide speeds up to 1Gbps (gigabit per second) by the year 2012.

However, when it comes to meeting the challenges for today, UK seems well in control and in consonance with the expectations that its broadband penetration and quality is enough to cater to the needs of today. The heartening aspect is that this situation is poised to undergo a tremendous change by next year with more and more focus being laid on up gradation of cable networks and a conscious effort on the part of the government to provide high speed networks to its people.

The Said Business School of Oxford University and the University of Oviedo’s Department of Applied Economics jointly conducted this study and also discovered that the global download speed was just 4.75Mbps(megabits per second) with the mean upload speed being 1.3Mbps.

Planning for the future

An estimation of the broadband capability of various countries to cope with the increasing demands of users of today with regard to applications like viewing YouTube, using Skype to communicate, sharing photos and videos and using standard players to view content was made and the result revealed that only 44 countries out of 66 managed to meet the required criteria. Not only that, Japan, Sweden and Latvia were the only countries who seemed to be well prepared to offer services like high-definition video that are going to be much in demand in the near future. This was however considered an improvement over last year, when only Japan made the cut.

The researchers worked on the guideline that a country would need to provide mean download speeds of 11.25Mbps and mean upload speeds of 5Mbps to be able to meet future demands for more bandwidth.

What constitutes ‘Real Speeds?’

The study made use of the site speedtest.net to focus on the download and upload speeds along with any latency in each of the 66 countries to come out with this report. It made use of over 24 million speed tests to arrive at its conclusion and that is how UK was placed at the 31st position.

However, when they combined these results with the actual broadband penetration across countries, UK showed improvement and was ranked the 25th. The researchers felt that merely looking at either broadband penetration or advertised speeds in isolation would not present the correct picture and they needed to be considered together to come to a meaningful conclusion. They also laid special emphasis on the quality of broadband that was available in each country when presenting their final report.

Broadband to go? Three is your vehicle

As I hammer out this blog post on my laptop, connected to the Internet via 3 USB modem, mobile broadband, I could not help the felling of excitement that came over me, here I am sat in my car, parked on a motorway service station on the M4 surfing the net adding a new post to my blog.

It seemed a few short years a go when I had to keep ringing BT, asking when my local phone exchange will be upgraded so that I can have Broadband in my house, now, broadband customers do not have to chase BT to upgrade the exchange, on the contrary, BT and a multitude of broadband providers are chasing after customers bribing them with all sort of freebies to signup for a broadband service.

And 3 shall be called 1

I have had my mobile phone with T-mobile for years, when three join the UK high street with their mobile phones shops, I have very little reason to check them out. Perhaps because they are the last player to enter the mobile market or perhaps because they have management that actually listen to people and come up with what people wants, most mobile phone users I know do not like being tied to long contract, that is what made me go into my local 3 shop for the first time, they were selling Pay as you go mobile broadband, you just pay for the modem and then top up your broadband as you need to, this suites perfectly because I already have broadband at home, however occasionally, when I go on business trip, I do not like using the exorbitant priced hotel broadband, so 3 no contract mobile broadband did the trick for me. Instead of being called 3, I think they should be called 1st, they seem to be the first to come up with sensible price plan compared with the other players who are always trying shackle you with long contracts.

Dangle your Dongle or Flash your bits?

3 mobile broadband connection device comes in two flavours, the dongle that comes comes with USB connection at the end, with a reasonable length of cable between the dongle and the USB plug, the SIM slots info the dongle. The second version is a slim sexy looking USB flash drive look-alike, this version come with an optional USB cable that can connect the USB stick to a computer if you do not want to plug the USB directly info your computer. The USB stick version if far neater to use than the dongle version, but either device will get you online almost anywhere in the UK (Three currently have 95% coverage in UK).

One thing I love about installing 3 broadband is the fact that there is no need for install CD, just plug your dongle or USB stick into you computer and Windows will recognise and install the required drivers, Mac users are not so lucky, they need to use an Install CD.

The only thing I find mildly annoying about the install is the language option, or shall I say lack of options. When installing the device, you are asked if you want to install in US English, this seem to imply that there is a British English version option, but alas, its like Henry Ford proposition about the colour you can have you first Ford production car in ‘you can have it in any colour, as long as its black’ You can install you 3 mobile broadband in any version of the English language you like as long as its US English.