Removed - read it myself and worked it out - someone posted it on their forums who is now suspended and guess what - it was an ad for sky!

- Ryan

I have a feeling this will be one big can of worms you've opened mate, and as such i'm staying out of it haha, i don't need to prove how big my bollox are if you know whay I mean
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Not that I'm pimping cable again, but christ - we can get so much bandwidth down our lines that my PC bleeds data.

NTL trialled 100Mbit bband in london back in march for 'legit P2P use'.

It also trialled 20Mbit last year for home networks. They suggest the network can even support up to 50Mbit in widespread use.

What "ADSL Website"?

It is possibly using historical design data. The copper pairs were never designed with broadband in mind so they weren't deemed a broadband technology till people figured out how make it work as it was cheaper than laying new cable.

Anyway, I can't remember what the limits were when we studied it but the bandwidth capabilities of a copper twisted pair are significantly higher than that these days...

adslguide.com

I've just reread what you posted and can't believe I missed it at first.

What you have quote is marketing twaddle from Sky intended to misrepresent the facts and lead people to believe that dsl technologies cannot compete with them in terms of speed.

There are plenty of white papers around which explain the different technologies. Standard dsl is generally good for 1.5Mbps over a 5k line, RADSL goes to 2mbps over a longer distance, I forget what. The latest MaxDSL is good for 8mbps over a 5.5k line (I looked those up seen as I couldn't remember them before).

This is normally copper distance to the exchange but it can be increased with repeaters or decreased by interference/dodgy copper..

The technologies that provide more than 8mb (ie up to 24mbps) are based on ADSL2+ which is yet another variation.

I'm not sure where they got the 3.6Mb limit from though because it doesn't match any of the theoretical limits.

For broadband information, the most renowned resource is thinkbroadband.com (formerly adslguide.org.uk).

OK - here's my situation. TalkTalk offered me broadband at "up to 8Mb" and I knew that it wouldn't necessarily be that fast. Their line check said 512Kb.
I bought it and they enabled ADSL on my line and sent me a modem.
When it was installed it didn't work, because they could not establish even 256Kb for more than a few seconds at a time. They sent me my money back and blamed BT. After all, I do live 20 miles north of Cardiff, so I am too far from civilisation for broadband to be available.

ADSL\SDSL ('Broadband') has a limit of 5.5km\7.5km respectively, from your local exchange. Try & find out your local telephone exchnage & how far away from you

for alterntive brodband, e.g. satellite, wireless, etc...try ispreview.co.uk..though if you in one of the main towns in the valleys from cardiff..there may be local brodbande schemes


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you find out how far approx you are from the exchange here:
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/checker2.php