A host of internet service providers are upping their top speeds to 20Mbit/s. ISPs Orange, Plusnet and Zen Internet have all announced they’re raising their respective bars over the past few days. In doing so, they’re making up ground on the likes of Virgin Media, BT, BE and O2, which all already offer “up to” 20Mbit/s services.

Entanet and Plusnet make available the line speed distributions of their customers.

I am pleased to announce that our first Performance Monitoring report is ready (finally!).
The report is available in PDF format using the link below. Apologies for the relatively large file size – many of the images are at a higher resolution, so you can zoom in for a better look. A one page “executive summary” [...]

Google’s Senior Policy Director, Richard Whitt, has revealed that the web giant is working on tools that will reveal to broadband users whether their service is being ‘throttled’ to allow some online services to be prioritised over others.
Speaking at Santa Clara University at a conference on net neutrality – the issue of whether ISPs should [...]

This summer is going to see a lot of records smashed and not just on the Olympic race track. Like most sports in the digital age, the Beijing games will be simulcast on television and broadband, leading most experts to predict audience figures will shoot through the proverbial roof and test broadband networks to the [...]

PlusNet today announced that, following successful trials, it has reached agreement with Tiscali UK for Tiscali to supply wholesale broadband network services to PlusNet utilising its Local Loop Unbundled (LLU) infrastructure.
Speeds up to 8Mb will be available within Tiscali’s LLU service areas using ADSL and speeds of up to 24Mb will be possible in areas [...]

I feel I should apologise for the lack of updates to the site recently. Unfortunately, university work is very heavy right now and is showing few signs of easing up. As I hope you can appreciate, my degree takes priority over the site – which I still consider a hobby.
That said, with Easter fast approaching, [...]

In the past few days we’ve heard rumours of NTL boosting their maximum broadband speed from 1.5Mbps to 3Mbps. Some have suggested that this brings them closer in line with Telwest, who have been offering 3Mbps BlueYonder services since this summer. These upgrades by NTL have apparently been made possible by wide-scale network improvements over [...]

The Sheffield based ISP PlusNet have launched a new range of products built upon the new capacity-charging system launched by BT Wholesale on Friday.
The products include the standard 512Kbps, 1Mbps and 2Mbps speeds, but allow you to set your own monthly download cap. The base price for 2Mbps is £31.99 inc VAT per month (4GB [...]

BT Retail received a lot of criticism last week when it announced its new “Broadband Basic” package for £19.99 per month, with a 1GB download limit attached. They even managed to annoy Tiscali with an advert about Tiscali’s 150K “broadband” services.
Not to be outdone though, Tiscali have announced that they too will be launching a [...]