Just a bit of research to see how things have moved on!

[Shockwave]

If greater than 16mb, what do you use?
I'm on Pipex, 2.2mb.

[cirux]

I'm on NTL 1 meg. If it wasn't for the fact I'm paying off some loans I would be probably on Bulldogs 16 or NTL's 10 meg connections.. just to atleast see what its like 

[Shockwave]

Yeh, they are plugging that Bulldog BB big style now.
We had 1MB broadband before and then we were upgraded to 2mb for free, to be honest this is fast enough for what I use the internet for and in any case as BB gets faster I'm sure that we'll get more free upgrades.

[zparticle]

I'm at 6Mb, didn't think paying for the upgrade to 8 would be worth it.

[cirux]

Yeah unless you doing a lot of download anything over 1 or 2 megs is fast enough, well for average browsing and that. The main difference is going from session based browsing (dial up) to always on broadband connection I have, I remember having to use gozilla to download DirectX 8 SDK when it came out.. took me a few months on my old dial up and limited time.

[Shockwave]

Nobody has dial up so far !

[Clyde]

Im with Orange Broadband ( Formely FreeServe then Wanadoo ) and their highest speed 8MB, and it works a charm. Had a few problems with their Live Boxes, so bought my own wireless gateway. But at 14.99 a month, I cant complain and it's very very reliable.

[Shockwave]

That's very cheap, I'm paying the same as that for 2MB.

[Clyde]

Yeah, it's very affoardable especially on a budget like I am.

And If you need a new phone. Orange are doing a deal were you buy a Ã,£30 contracted phone, and get the broadband for free.

[Rbz]

I have a 256k Adsl Cable.

[Jim]

My ISP guarantees 1.5Mb on my plan but will let you train all the way up to 24Mb if you can get it, and I get something around 24/1.
When everyone has really fast internet it will be revolutionary - the whole concept of downloading anything becomes irrelevant because you can just stream it or access it in real-time anyway.  For instance at 24Mb you can stream an entire DVD movie in about 5mins.
I pay about $90 which is a little over  35quid a month.  There's a 48Gb download cap.

Jim

[Shockwave]

Actually for what you can download that's a very good price Jim and to just put that into perspective, my Hard drive is only 80gb so you could fill it in less than 2 months if you wanted to!

And 48 gb / month is probably do-able as well if you were on 24mb broadband.

[relsoft]

56k.

[Shockwave]

Damn, I feel sorry for you Rel. Can you get BB where you are?

[xteraco]

i have a 16mbps cable connection

[relsoft]

Damn, I feel sorry for you Rel. Can you get BB where you are?

Of course! But it's not as cheap there as it is here. :*)

[Clyde]

Im now using the latest release candidate of Internet Explorer 7. And it's looking to be pretty darn cool and greatly improved. We'll i've had no problems with it using it thus far.

[Blitz Amateur]

I've got cable at 4 Mb

[DrewPee]

Ive got NTL bb at 10mb at home, and im the systems admin at work (as well as thestudio manager) and we use pipex 2mb for around 10 or so users with no problems.
I do download a lot of graphic files form work and for customers at home hence i need the speed.

Drew

[Clyde]

Wow, I didnt realize they were on that speed. I would opt for NTL, but im on a years contract so thats me stuffed.