
We’re delighted to bring you a guest post this week from none other than Matt Powell, Editor at BroadbandGenie.co.uk – the UK’s leading independent broadband, mobile broadband and smartphone comparison website. Matt gives some great advice on understanding broadband usage …

Traffic management has been given a bad reputation because it is wrongly believed that its sole purpose is to slow down users or certain types of traffic. While historically, this may have been true of some providers, it’s a bit of an unfair reputation because if used in the way Plusnet do, it can actually enhance the customer experience. Let me explain …

Yesterday America spoke and re-elected President Barack Obama. In an election that few would dare to predict the outcome, interest was high here in Blighty just as it was over the Pond.
Read on to find out what impact this had on the Plusnet broadband network …

How we use the internet has changed – and is changing – dramatically. Ten years ago, most of the UK was on dial-up – and if you had broadband you almost certainly had a 512kbps connection.
Today, 512kbps feels like a dial-up connection because the average webpage is well over 1MB. And while the average speed of broadband in the UK is now around 7-8Mbps, we’re trialling 80Mbps and even 330Mbps services. But how has this changed how we consume media – most importantly TV? Read on, for my take on it all …
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