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Majority of Brits have broadband connection
Author: Phil CogarPublished: 29th August 2007
Jenna knows what one of the main uses of your broadband connection is...
The survey was conducted on a random sampling of around 1,800 adults that are aged 16 or over and living in a private household.
Around 60 percent of all London households have a broadband connection while Northern Ireland has an attach rating of only 40 percent.
The same survey also reports that a total of 15.23 million (61 percent) households have Internet access with London and South-west England leading the pack at 69 percent. Northern Ireland, north-east England and Yorkshire in northern England trailed everyone with only 52 percent of all households having some form of internet access.
Men are more likely to be found on the Internet then women with a 71 percent to 62 percent ratio.
The results have also found that goods and services searching was the primary reason for Internet usage (86 percent) with sending and receiving emails closely behind at 85 percent. Travel and accommodation services were also popular with 63 percent of respondents logging in to using them. There was no information on how many people log in just to look at porn (my guess would be around 90 percent).
What type of connection are you on and what is your primary reason for searching the Internet? If your answers are "broadband" and "to look at bit-tech" then let us know in the comments section below or over in the forums. Don't worry though, even if those are you're answers, feel free to discuss the results as well.
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Although the connection speed is all over the place at the moment, dropping down to 1.5Mb some days.
Still no broadband at my dads house though - he's close enough to the exchange to get (at most) 1Mb, but the lines are absolute crap and BT refuse to replace them...think they gave him the old "if they're good enough to make phone calls they don't need replacing" excuse.
My BT broadband is far far slower than the implied 8mb and it's really frustrating.
however i do get pretty close to maxing out the download rate.
We can change it to 1Mb BEWARE!!!ONEELEVEN
The more money they spend on extending their coverage with phone and copper the more it'll cost them to upgrade the UK to optical fibre.
Plus, companies advertise relatively mouth watering speeds and provide something not so appealing. My Virgin Media/NTL 4MB service runs at just under 500kbps download - upload isn't worth mentioning tbh.
You're on a 4Megabit service, that works out to 500kilobytes per second.
4000/8 = 500.
You're fine.
I'm on their 20mb service (768 up) and get around 100kb/sec upload speeds, even higher than 768k (and 2.4MB/sec downloads as well)
I'm guessing it depends on where you live, as a friend of mine on the other side of town is also on the 20mb and gets around 1.8MB/sec down and 70kb/sec up
I get about the same as you Tad, except my upload hits 140k.
The difference in speeds will be down to how many people are on each connection at one time
I hate AOL with a vengeance. I would get rid of it but my dad finds it easy to use as he is getting older.
Anyone else disgruntled with AOL?
(the upload being the crippling part)
Can't even move to ADSL really, as our phone line is shockingly bad and can't stably go much faster than 2MB
Apparently as it "works" BT aren't too inclined to do anything.
Now that they throttle back some nights it's just awful to be on the internet.
71 percent of men compared to 62 percent of women.
and i thought my internet here in belfast would be slow... :(
poor guys in the countrysides.
I'm in the same situation as you two, they finally have gotten round to upgrading our area. i haven't really bee trying that hard but the max upload I've managed is about 90KB/s. I'm going to try channel hoping to see if any of the others are a little clearer and i can get the full speeds...although by the maths the max upload should be 96KB/s so i guess I'm not that far off....I'm almost tempted to use a *cough* legitimately modified *cough* config file just to increase the upload because that's what really annoys me about the connection now.
You get better internet in developing countries for a fraction of the price. I just ordered cable from Virgin media and im going to be leaving AOL im SOOOO happy.
Their tech people are sooooo god damn annoying, i ring them and ask them "Why do you keep disconnecting me and throttling my internet that im paying for for the last year"... their answers: "Try deleting your cache... have you tried restarting your pc?" O thats right... ive not restarted my pc in a year!