Last year we published the distribution of our customers speeds in order to compare what our customers were starting to see on our 21CN network against what they previously had and also to see what speed distributions both 20CN and 21CN were giving. As we have over 800 customers on 21CN now we thought it would be useful to revisit the distribution of speeds as we have a much better sample size now. More…
Do we have a new tennis hero? I think we have a new British hero! More…
“The Stig” unmasked tonight on the first episode of the new series of Top Gear… only I don’t think it was the real Stig. Certainly though the potential reveal has caused people to tune in to Top Gear in droves and the convenience of iPlayer has meant that many can enjoy an extra hour or two out in the evening sun on the longest day of the year. So many in fact it’s set a new Plusnet iPlayer record with 1.31Gbps of iPlayer streaming traffic being hit between 10pm and 11pm this evening. More…
Been a while since I posted one of these blogs, so looking at the graphs for the past two weeks I thought I’d post a couple of observations of the traffic we’ve been seeing. More…
Computer Shopper magazine are conducting the UK’s biggest broadband survey and they need your feedback on the service we provide.
Click this link to cast your vote. You’ll also be able to test the speed of your connection at the voting page.
It’s the first major snow of the year and a lot of people have decided to stay home and work remotely rather than venture in to the office. And who can blame them to be honest? More…
Barack Obama was today inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America. Coverage of the ceremony was shown live on several channels in the UK including the BBC.
During the 2 hour broadcast between 4pm and 6pm UK time we saw a significant increase in streaming traffic, particularly from iPlayer (which includes streaming coverage from the BBC website as well as the catch up TV service as they use the same technology). More…
As a follow up to last year we thought we’d post a list of the top 10 websites viewed by our customers over Christmas this year. More…
The Chancellor Alistair Darling made his pre-budget speech this afternoon with a raft of changes. We won’t go into the implications of these changes as part of this blog but instead just post a few facts and figures about the actual “broadcast”. More…
The US has spoken and the world has been watching. After a campaign lasting nearly 2 years Barack Obama will be the 44th President of America next January. This has been a historical election for a number of reasons. We won’t go into the details, we’ll leave that to the various news media, instead we’ll focus on an aspect that we as a UK ISP can see. More…
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