[BNM] Sick of be broadband

[Richard Grimwood]

>> If you had a BT retail or BT wholesale provided service then the move to
>> 21CN will allow BT to share huge pipes into the exchange with their
>> voice traffic and thus make an instantaneous upgrade to broadband
>> capacity rather than adding dedicated links as they do now.
> 
> Would that suggest that a move to a BT based ISP would be a good idea
> after 21CN is installed?


Not really ... Most llu providers would claim to be running the 
equivalent of their own 21CN networks already. No ATM links. I think 
both sky/easynet and Tiscali wholesale describe their network with the 
words 21cn

If you do have a problem on the copper pair that provides your phone and 
hence your ADSL it matters little which provider you select. Until it is 
rectified it will still be unreliable.

It is hard to see how £19.00 is a premium if the service works normally 
at the speeds you expected. For most ISPs (not the LLUers) BT central 
pipes costs hundred of pound per Mbps of capacity per month. So the 
average usage at peak time per users needs to be less than 100Kbps for 
them not to lose money. ADSL2+ users eat bandwidth which is why not many 
ISPs are offering it yet. Also lower ADSL prices usually correspond to 
lower speeds and 12 or 18 month contracts with the advertised price 
being only  an introductory rate for the 1st 6-12 months + bonus of a 
call centre in India.