even though it says you can have 8mb broadband the factors involved to acheive a true 8mb are many , u may have an 8mb package but your router-exchange distance is 1 factor,another is the speed of your line to that exchange,the type of wire and how old it is also plays a part in speeds,u may see an upstream of around 5-6000kbps for fetching pages to you but your download speeds may only be 4-800kbps which isnt even 1mb,now if u read the isp's terms etc ull notice it says UPTO 8mb thats a clause for them legaly so in theory they cud give u dialup speeds i.e 56kbps and get away with it as they say UPTO, a true 8mb broadband is only realy 8mb through cable not a foneline,the fone line depends on distance the data travells,the computer proformance u have,the local and national usage on there servers and a whole host of other things whereas with cable its a fibre optic (like the lights that change colour u can get) thats a fibre optic (light) not a pulse through a copper wire like bt etc, light travells faster than electricity through a wire so the data loss is very VERY minimal, if you want a true 8+mb connection go with virgin media or similar as they are doing upto 20mb speeds at the min,i use virgin media and my upstream is currently 19558kbps (19.5mb)and my download/downstream is currently 18023kbps ..(18mb just over), another factor in all this is the wlan card speeds u have , the ethernet port speeds ur pc has etc,
i used to be with an isp called bulldog and they said i could have 32mb!! 32mb in the uk is at this time impossable and the true speed i got with them was around 10mb on a good day....at worst it was around 3mb,
the uk is currently behind the whole planet on broadband but is updating as we speak
in france you can get 15-50mb broadband,in germany u cant get any lower than 30mb ,america has 20-50mb and japan is currently testing 200mb over a new technology due out in a few years
if u want to inprove your speed you can try various things from isps to simple download managers
mat alex
even though it says you can have 8mb broadband the factors involved to acheive a true 8mb are many , u may have an 8mb package but your router-exchange distance is 1 factor,another is the speed of your line to that exchange,the type of wire and how old it is also plays a part in speeds,u may see an upstream of around 5-6000kbps for fetching pages to you but your download speeds may only be 4-800kbps which isnt even 1mb,now if u read the isp's terms etc ull notice it says UPTO 8mb thats a clause for them legaly so in theory they cud give u dialup speeds i.e 56kbps and get away with it as they say UPTO, a true 8mb broadband is only realy 8mb through cable not a foneline,the fone line depends on distance the data travells,the computer proformance u have,the local and national usage on there servers and a whole host of other things whereas with cable its a fibre optic (like the lights that change colour u can get) thats a fibre optic (light) not a pulse through a copper wire like bt etc, light travells faster than electricity through a wire so the data loss is very VERY minimal, if you want a true 8+mb connection go with virgin media or similar as they are doing upto 20mb speeds at the min,i use virgin media and my upstream is currently 19558kbps (19.5mb)and my download/downstream is currently 18023kbps ..(18mb just over), another factor in all this is the wlan card speeds u have , the ethernet port speeds ur pc has etc,
i used to be with an isp called bulldog and they said i could have 32mb!! 32mb in the uk is at this time impossable and the true speed i got with them was around 10mb on a good day....at worst it was around 3mb,
the uk is currently behind the whole planet on broadband but is updating as we speak
in france you can get 15-50mb broadband,in germany u cant get any lower than 30mb ,america has 20-50mb and japan is currently testing 200mb over a new technology due out in a few years
if u want to inprove your speed you can try various things from isps to simple download managers