Clearer Broadband Information Please

Adverts often show broadband speeds as 'up to 8MB' which implies that customers will receive 8MB, however the speed depends on how far away you live from the exchange. In the majority of cases it would be almost impossible to receive such a speed.

Computeractive magazine asked over 3000 of it's readers to test the speed of their broadband online and compared it to what they expected it to achieve. A broadband checker toll was added to it developed by Broadband Choices to test the current speed of its reader's broadband service. The tool checked single connections an average of 19 times by downloading a 10MB file, this totaled around 100,000 checks overall.

The survey found that more than half of the broadband subscribers tested received less than half the bandwidth advertised by their ISP. 28% of readers received only a 1/4 of their advertised speed. Customers did not expect the results in some cases to be so low, even though they understood the advertised speed of 'up to 8MB' was not always achievable the results where still shocking. One Sky Broadband subscriber living nearby to the exchange was paying for a 16 Mbps service but only receiving 9 Mbps.

Computeractive have taken their results to Downing Street along with a petition to stop such unfair actions and misleading information. They would like Ofcom to force ISPs to provide clear information on actual speeds, instead of advertising the maximum speed they should advertise a 'typical' speed, much like the APR on credit cards.

A similar survey was carried out by Which? magazine last month, and found that the average speed of 300 customers tested was just 2.7Mbps. The lowest speed obtained was 0.09Mbps (practically dial-up speed) and the maximum speed came in at just 6.7Mbps.

Which? Informed Ofcom and Trading Standards of their findings and asked them to investigate Broadband based on their results. Ofcom made a statement at the time saying they would monitor the situation. The new survey carried out by it should hopefully prompt an official investigation, which will lead to more honest and clearer broadband advertising.

This and many other articles on mobile phones and the latest mobile phone deals was written by John Gray.

John Gray's writing can often be found at http://www.onecompare.com

Streamyx
Streamyx Business
Streamyx
Streamyx Combo 90
Streamyx
WIMax
Streamyx Online Registration
Streamyx Installation Guide
Streamyx
Streamyx
Streamyx Combo 160
Streamyx Combo 160
Streamyx Online Registration
Streamyx
Streamyx Tmpoint

How to Get Unlimited iPod Music Downloads

The Apple Ipod has been very successful release even thought it's been few years since Ipod was release and people still buying it like crazy. You probably think everyone who owns Ipod probably have it full of music but you know that isn't the case with most people.

In fact many people probably have limited music stored in it which vary from 50-60 songs in total. Even though at the time they bought it their intentions were to store a lot of music on it.

Those who own Ipod is not aware that there are many sites which let you download music to it. But the worse part is that there are very few web sites that in fact let you download music for free. Which means you can get more out of their Ipod by downloading a lot of music onto it without paying much.

I'll introduce you to a web site where most people go to download music but before I do that I also want to tell you what to look for in a web site before you start downloading music from it. There are two types of Ipod download web sites which I'll explain below.

First type of web site is where you pay per downloads fees, which means every time you download a song you have to pay certain fee. If you are a music lover imagine downloading 500 songs onto your Ipod which will cost you fortune that would add up and probably be even more than what you paid for your player.

Second type of website is where you download unlimited music for free but you have to pay one time small fee which is good for life time membership. As you can see once you have signed up and become member you don't have to pay any per download fees and you can download as much music you want.

They will also provide you with special software which will allow you to search and help you download music to your Ipod. Usually these types of web sites have latest music available to download even before it officially has been released.

I have provided you with information of two types of web sites to download music for your Ipod if you are a music lover i am sure you will go for a type two web site that offer Unlimited Ipod Music Downloads.

Find out how you can access to unlimited ipod music, movies & game downloads - full length DVD quality videos easily from home, Download Unlimited Ipod Music

Streamyx Online Registration
Streamyx
Streamyx Registration
Streamyx
Streamyx Combo
Streamyx Speedometer
Streamyx
Streamyx Combo
Streamyx
Streamyx Value Added Services
Streamyx Business Packages
Streamyx Business Soho
WIMax
Streamyx Soho
Streamyx 4MB coverage