[kj] Off-Topic: Info request for UK or Canadian gatherers: NOTKJ-RELATED

[Phillipps Marc]

In the UK I would guess the majority of us are on one form of broadband
or another, the quality of which will be determined by the distance to
the nearest exchange for ADSL users

 

A lot of broadband packages over here are capped to some level or
another, this site will give you some idea of the myriad ways they do
that http://www.ispreview.co.uk/ 

 

The major bone of contention these days seems to be the "up to Xmeg"
packages, as an example I am on an "Up to 8meg" line but, due to living
in a small village a long way from the nearest exchange and with
telephone lines that probably date back to the war, can rarely get more
than 1.4meg  . . this pisses me off (quite a lot!)

 

Is that the sort of info you're after? 

 

Marc 

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]
On Behalf Of Rheinhold Squeegee
Sent: 21 January 2010 16:17
To: Gathering Gathering
Subject: [kj] Off-Topic: Info request for UK or Canadian gatherers:
NOTKJ-RELATED

 

Hi-
 
this is completely non-KJ related.
 
I work for a company that develops commercial and professional web sites
for clients throughout the US and we are currently branching out into
both the UK and Canada.
 
I get the feeling, however, that there is a misperception here that web
users in the UK and Canada access and use the Internet in the same way
we do here in the US. I remember seeing comments a few years back about
how UK web access was hampered because there were per-minute phone
charges in addition to web access charges.
 
In the US, the majority of people with more than a dial-up connection
(do we still have those?) will have unlimited time access via cable or
some other broadband access, with some restrictions on total bandwidth,
or access will be bundled along with a cell phone or cable plan. In
other words, we have full access, all the time.
 
Question: How is web access today the same or different for the average
user in the UK or Canada? Are there any significant differences that
impact how the user accesses the web, and how much time they spend doing
so, i.e. phone charges, bandwidth restrictions, legal issues?
 
Any responses would be greatly appreciated. Sorry if this offends any of
the forum purists, but I've always found the members here to be helpful
and insightful.
 
Regards,
 
JF
 
 
 
 

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