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25-07-2015 8:42 AM
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This leads to the marketing speak explanation of improving services by cutting them.
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25-07-2015 9:00 AM
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An oddity in BT's current pricing is that 40/10 is £10 (or £12.50 depending on where you look), but that 80/20 is a £30, a huge £20 difference. Until recently the typical difference between 40/10 and 80/20 has been around £5 or a little more for most providers. For Plusnet, just £5 for the difference between 80/20 and 40/2.
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25-07-2015 10:25 AM
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Have I got a problem with an invalid redirect or is it broke
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25-07-2015 10:43 AM
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40/10 40GB limit £10
40/10 Unlimited £20
80/20 Unlimited £30 although this includes evening calls as well
Note there are no special offers
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25-07-2015 11:02 AM
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25-07-2015 11:10 AM
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so i can buy a cheap car and go just as fast as a more expensive one.
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25-07-2015 11:17 AM
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Plus if you were to drive to the speed limits, a cheaper, smaller engined car would consume more fuel to maintain that speed than a larger, slightly more expensive engined car would...
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25-07-2015 11:45 AM
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http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/affiliate-packages-broadband
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25-07-2015 11:48 AM
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25-07-2015 11:54 AM
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Quote from: twocvbloke I never mentioned speed limits...
Plus if you were to drive to the speed limits, a cheaper, smaller engined car would consume more fuel to maintain that speed than a larger, slightly more expensive engined car would...
limits are a major consideration though.
FTTC limits at 80, driving limits at 70.
smaller engined car would actually be more economical than a larger engined car.
so your analogy totally fails.
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25-07-2015 12:10 PM
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Quote from: chenks76 so your analogy totally fails.
Not thinking the way I am, if you have a 100 mile road, and you have two cars, one say a Fiat 500, the other a Honda NSX, both carrying a package that is the same size and weight, fuel is unlimited, and you then have them drive at full speed along the road, which will arrive first? It's the same as the comparison ISPs did (some still do) of how quickly you could download files, more bandwidth available, the faster you receive the data, just as with a faster car, the sooner you get from one end of the 100 mile road to the other...

So my analogy works, you're just incapable of seeing it logically...

But referring to the internet as roads is a good analogy anyway, as with more people accessing the web, the more traffic is travelling along the "roads" of the internet, yes you could have a Bugatti Veyron of internet technology to drive on them, but the rutted, washed out, muddy farm tracks this country has for "roads" to the information superhighway makes it difficult to get there, hence why the networks need serious investment to make sure we all have decent speeds to access the web without ending up with digital gridlock...
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25-07-2015 12:16 PM
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the NSX will have much poorer fuel economy too.
the bandwidth is the road in your analogy, not the car.
the road has a limit of 70. the speed capabilities of the car is irrelevant.
the router would be the car in your analogy.
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25-07-2015 12:23 PM
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25-07-2015 12:45 PM
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whether they are physically capable of getting that or not is not down to how much money the customer pays, but down to the infrastructure (ie the "road").
the "car" is what you use to drive on the "road".
the car is the router, the road is the telephone/cable line.
my line is close to the cab and can get close to 80Mbps, however if i use a [Censored] router than i may only get 60Mbps actual usage.
is problem caused by the router (car) or the line (road) ?
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25-07-2015 1:02 PM
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Dialup - depends on the ISP
ADSL - starts at a couple of quid with most ISPs
FTTC - between £10 and 30
FTTP - £100+
Dedicated backbone connection - £few thousand minimum
Whether it's available to people, I don't care, I was simply pointing out that to get faster access, you have to pay more, you started talking rubbish about the speed limits of british roads slowing down cars, all I did was liken the access technology to the speed of cars and the price changes the faster they go, a simple, basic, easy to understand and accept analogy, nothing to do the speed limits and fuel useage (after all, does your modem run on petrol or have to sit at traffic lights going nowhere?!?), only ill-understanding waterheads come up with that kind of stupid response...

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