Archive: broadband
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May 08, 2012
No CommentsPoll Results: Broadband Universal Service Commitment
Our recent poll featured a question we had originally asked back in 2009, giving us an opportunity to see how the public’s attitudes and expectations of the UK Broadband Universal Service Commitment has changed. We received over 2,400 responses to the poll, which closely matches the response level in 2009, allowing us to compare the...
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May 01, 2012
Comments OffPoll Results: Telephone and broadband slamming
The rise of the broadband and telephone bundles has highlighted the problems that can occur if a users telephone or broadband or even both services are slammed. The disruption this can cause is immense, particularly in cases where none of the parties involved appear keen to go out of their way to help the paying...
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May 01, 2012
No CommentsUK broadband speeds slide backwards – are we a failure?
Akamai who operate a massive Content Delivery Network (CDN) regularly publishes an update on the State of the Internet. The fourth quarter for 2011 report has recently been released, and it is getting a lot of coverage in the UK but looking at places like the US it seems to be barely covered. Is this...
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Apr 25, 2012
No CommentsPoll Results: Household Film/TV Viewing
Our latest poll was less concerned about technical aspects of broadband, but more about an area we are constantly reminded is a major area of growth for broadband, and may prove to be the most visible driver for improving broadband speeds across the UK. We ran the poll for seven days and attracted over 1,400...
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Apr 17, 2012
No CommentsPoll Results: Email Security poll reveals 17% have no idea if their email is encrypted?
Another of our regular polls has produced some interesting results, and attracted over 1,500 responses from the visitors to thinkbroadband. Of course not all visitors will be the average internet user, but even so, the results of this poll are very interesting. Looking at how many people use the provider-supplied email service, reveals that a...
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Apr 12, 2012
No CommentsBroadband Hardware Poll – The Results
We recently asked visitors about their broadband modem/router and whether they were using hardware supplied by their broadband service provider, or their own. We also asked how much they had spent on broadband hardware over the last 12 months. We had over 1,600 responses which reveal that some 42% of the respondents had elected to...
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Apr 11, 2012
2 CommentsAAISP concerns over rural broadband provision
Internet service provider AAISP have this morning hit out against BT Wholesale for what they have described as an ‘attitude problem’ in fixing some rural broadband issues. In a post on the AAISP website, they refer to the example of the village of Whitchurch as an example of BT Wholesale’s failure to deal with ‘hot VPs’, a congested...
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Mar 28, 2012
5 CommentsThe Broadband experiment: a week without Internet
How much time do you spend on the Internet? Mobile or fixed? Have you ever considered the amount of minutes or hours you spend surfing the web? These are all questions that came to me when someone asked me the other day what broadband was. I couldn’t understand how anyone could not know! My day...
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Mar 08, 2012
6 CommentsI wish my teacher had given me a Raspberry Pi…
Any conversation that starts off with food always grabs my attention (it’s the fat kid in me…) so when the guys in the office start talking about raspberry pies, I’m listening intently, already gearing up for someone to come with a desert. It never occurred to me that they were actually talking about the latest...
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Feb 02, 2012
No CommentsWhy you love Twitter, and only like Facebook as a friend.
Thanks to those of you that recently took part in our Twitter and Facebook polls. We first took these polls in early 2010, to see what impact social media had on our visitors. The results were quite staggering! Being a daily social media user, it becomes hard to imagine not having it. I know there...