Well as fast as the company that owns most of the UK delivery infrastructure (BT) work against the (what seems inadequate) budget that they have allocated for this upgrade work.
However all of their work may soon not be enough to keep up with ever increasing demand for broadband bandwidth.
With the daily arrival of yet more WebTV stations, more video sharing sites and more picture storage sites are we fast approaching a major web traffic jam when we all end up with just a dribble of data, instead of the promised land of up to 8MB’s?
This interesting article looks at some of the issues, such as 3.5 million people downloading the new BBCi Player in the first two weeks after its launch. If the average program is 350Mb, that’s a lot of traffic!
What is OFCOM about this impending log jam, read the full article here. Things may only be getting slower!
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