24 meg broadband by Newnet

[adam]

Newnet is to lauch its 24 meg broadband in Portsmouth by this August.

Newnet says its 24 Mb broadband will be initially available in Portsmouth and its ADSL+2 network will be later extended to other areas.

24 meg broadband is already a debatable issue. How many will get the promised speed and how many will get disillusioned?

[JenniP]

Bloody typical :-) I work across the road from NewNet and have just bought ADSL from another supplier (although its a one month contract so I can switch).

Wonder what Portsmouth exchanges they are doing though. Somehow doubt it will be mine.

Jen

[Smash]

Have they given any indication on upload speeds? Sounds a great development, but I'm sure it will be a good year or two until it's available all over the UK.

Great to hear these things are actually starting to be delivered though.

[JenniP]

According to their website its going to be 1meg, which considering I can have upto 860k isnt that good. BE offer 0.4meg on their lite service which is exactly the same as I already have with standard ADSL, 1.3meg on their Unlimited service and 2.4meg on their Pro service although to get that you have to sacrifice some of the download speed.

Jen

[scorpiox]

Im in Wales, this probably wont reach me for another 2 or 3 years
The speed sounds awesome though, but will it be a reality, or will they be overselling their own linespeed? I mean, if you have 100s of people running from one switch, how can you promise they will each get 24mbps?

[Smash]

'Just' one meg, kinda dissapointed. 'Be' it will be for me then, I want the upload speed to run a server from home so is important.

I'm getting a half meg with the 1mb I have now, Be offering the 2.4mb upload is by far the best I've seen.

Thanks.

[scorpiox]

That sounds pretty damned good, 2.4 up. Considering..
If you want to run a home server, try commercial companies that operate in the UK. I think Earthlink and Internap have UK arms, im not sure though

[Smash]

I'm gonna check these out.

When I first planned on doing it, I looked at the prices of a T1 line.....er...no.

Talking £800 a month minimum, an unmetered dedicated server costs less, even half.

[JenniP]

Do you know how much bandwidth you will use? When I outgrow my ADSL link which wont be for some time, I'll co-locate for around £50-100per month, comes with 10mbit unlimited transfer which will be more than enough for pretty much anything I can throw at it, or a dedicate server for around the same cost although I personally prefer my own hardware and software configuration.

Jen