Archive: broadband
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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...
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Aug 11, 2011
4 CommentsMobile Broadband Poll – the results
A few weeks ago, we asked users about how they used mobile broadband to access the Internet, with some interesting results. Out of over 1,000 responses, quite unsurprisingly when most users were accessing the Internet away from a fixed broadband connection, they were doing so on their mobile phone. However, 34% of users were still using a laptop/computer...
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Jul 28, 2011
4 CommentsBT ordered to block Newzbin2 – The dangerous precedent
This morning, the High Court has ruled that BT must block Newzbin2, a website which it claims assists in copyright infringement, following a request by the Motion Picture Association. To many, this decision may seem obvious as it seeks to protect intellectual property and the suggestion is that the site in question was set up...
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Jun 08, 2011
2 CommentsIPv6 Day: Why we need it
Today is World IPv6 day and many websites have been turning on IPv6 for a day to identify any problems that may arise out of a ‘dual stack’ IPv4-and-IPv6 configuration. There is a reported 0.05% of Internet users who may find that some websites including Facebook and Google will not be available to them today...
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Jun 02, 2011
7 CommentsUniversal Broadband: It’s not just about speed
Governments have talked for some years about a ‘universal service commitment’ to ensure virtually everyone in the country has access to a broadband service. Discussion has shifted from the previous 2Mbps figure to ‘super-fast’ broadband, but many rural communities remain concerned about the lack of coverage in the ‘final third’. With the recent announcement of...
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May 10, 2011
1 CommentIs TalkTalk’s filtering service the answer to parental controls?
TalkTalk yesterday launched a network-level security service which is designed in particular to help parents protect their children from harmful content on the Internet such as viruses. Unlike anti-virus or parental control software on individual machines, this tool protects anyone using the same Internet connection, and thus helps to block inappropriate content even if it’s...