Thread: UK telecoms companies not upgrading networks enough?
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Old 17-04-2007, 11:43   #15
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Re: UK telecoms companies not upgrading networks enough?
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Originally Posted by awibble View Post
220MB would keep most happy
That would certainly put us out in front in the broadband speeds - and I'd be very happy with it .

In all seriousness though, it has reached the point where providers need to look at quality of service rather than headline speeds. Having a 10 meg connection that can deliver a 10 meg speed, but has poor latency with it is no use for the sort of applications that could use them (VoIP, IPTV, gaming, etc).

Traffic management goes some way to helping this in the short term, but with home networks becoming simpler and more devices being IP aware off the shelf there's no getting around the fact that average bandwidth requirements are only going to go up with QoS requirements being more important as time progresses.
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