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| Originally Posted by Tim Ingmire When in the UK I used good ole BT and had no problems at all. No restrictions on usage and happy enough as a wireless network as an always on connection.
If you want serious speed I understand one of the providers is 16X normal broadband speeds which makes it something like 8Mb/sec. Super damn fast - probably enough to stream full frame video???? Not sure who it was or how much it was costing tho. |
Easynet / UKOnline
http://www.ukonline.net/
8Mb for £29.99 per month.
However, you need to be in a place that has LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) so that generally means the centres of Birmingham, London, Manchester and anywhere else Easynet have POP's.
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As for Video - I think it's 24Mbits/s symbol rate on Sky although the channel rates are generally 4Mbits/s up to 11 or 12 peak burst and dependent on how many other channels are on that stream.
DVD is average 8 or 9 bursting up to 18 or 19 dependent on how many extras there are. Superbit discs tend to dispense with the extras and up the video bitrate.
If you're in certain parts of London you can get HomeChoice
http://www.homechoice.co.uk (which is owned by VideoNetworks - the people who used to do Hull's Video on Demand service) which is streamed over broadband. I think they're a LLU too and they're a Broadband ISP.