bt cable dial in comment and analysis
The Gadget Showdown: DSL v Cable
Comment The speed is noticeably better than dial-up when surfing the web, but not always as much as you'd hope, and seemingly less than ADSL connections I'd tried in California. I also achieved feats unimaginable on a... [08 Nov 2001]
PC support needs your support
Comment UK business is wasting £10m a week connecting to the net using dial-up modems. According to broadband service provider OnCue, 37 million minutes of local calls are used up by companies using dial-up... [11 May 2001]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Government gaffe
Comment D is for Dial-up C is for Cable & Wireless The price of broadband and PCs is now so low that access is far below the cost of hi-fis, TVs, satellite and cable. B is for... [25 Sep 2008]
Networks - can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em
Comment BT is notoriously reluctant to give service level agreements, least of all to small fry with dial-up accounts or ADSL. Some idiot is bound to put a JCB through a cable or poor coffee... [26 Nov 2001]
Devil's Advocate: The broadband gap
Comment For the time being, users are finding that broadband gives a dramatic speed boost over dial-up. With large improvements in the speed of the optical devices used to drive fibre optic cables, each cable... [08 Jun 2004]
Is the game up for ISDN?
Comment However, the telcos, wary of cannibalising their existing ISDN and dial-up revenues, are dragging their feet. Although it is primarily being targeted at the consumer market to compete with cable modems,... [10 Nov 1998]
Time for a service provider to manage your WLAN?
Comment We also have a big opportunity from customers whose users are currently travelling around Europe and using fixed line dial-up, which is expensive and slow," says Moray Barclay, the manager of Colt's Mobility Programme. [10 Jun 2003]
Free ISPs vs AOL: who will have the last laugh?
Comment AOL's ace in the hole is a plan to offer free dial-up. A spokesman for the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications said there is an answer to this - get regulators to make the local loop truly competitive by taking the... [17 May 1999]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Christmas wish list
Comment D is for Dial-up C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT Every year of my life seems to have been challenging for one reason or another. But I have always been able to stay ahead of the... [20 Dec 2007]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment D is for Dial-up C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT The same upbeat tone runs through the Ofcom report - the source of the story (covered here by silicon.com). When broadband was... [23 May 2008]
LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking
Comment D is for Dial-up D is for Dial-up C is for Cable & Wireless C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT B is for BT On the difference between... [28 Feb 2008]
How fans can grab a slice of the music pie
Comment D is for Dial-up D is for Dial-up C is for Cable & Wireless C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT B is for BT Courtier-Dutton:... [18 Feb 2008]
Time for the wireless, networked laptop
Comment And anyone who has travelled with a dial-up modem and a bag full of different plugs for the world's many and various phone sockets will know that they are about as much use for keeping in touch as a basket of carrier... [01 May 2002]
Leader: The CD debate
Leader Perhaps the only solace to take is knowing that dial-up, inevitably not always-on, means less of a risk than DSL, cable, leased lines and so on. And speaking of seedy content (CD.seedy.we know you'll... [08 Mar 2004]
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