I can’t think of a more appropriate title; they just do. Let’s start off with me. My ISP charge £24.99 a month for an ADSL internet connection that is supposedly 8megabits per second. I only get about half of this, around 4megabits per second.

Yeah, that is fairly fast for an internet connection here. I actually find that other people can’t download at that speed in my area, even though i’ve personally seen their internet hardware setup, and seen that they don’t use crappy routers that were produced in 1999. The thing is, it isn’t fast at all compared to the speeds the majority of the world get.

The speed that data can travel down fibre optic telephone cables is the speed of light. So, why the fuck are we left with sub-standard internet speeds. I can’t see a reason. On my old ISP’s website they have diagrams of how the further away from your exchange you are, the slower your connection is. I think this is total bullshit. Yeah, just slow down the speed of light why don’t you for the purpose of explaining things? Granted there could perhaps be interference from stuff on the way, but what are these cables made of? Cardboard?

The very fact that the internet speeds of people around this area differ just proves the fact that the speed you get does depend on your ISP in my opinion, because what, everyone’s on a different grid or something? I think that British Telecom should get their act together on this one, and stop faffing around with things people don’t want, and actually focus on the internet and phone infrastructure of the entire UK. I know people that settle for less than 1megabit per second internet speeds, while they all pay a similar price to us for their internet.

Like it or not, BT should do something about it. It’s obvious that the entire internet system is ancient, while countries like China and America get much better speeds than we do in the UK.