Topic: BT: superfast broadband held back by home tech

[Simon]

BT says consumers and online services might need to upgrade their hardware if end users are to fully benefit from next-generation superfast broadband.

Showing off a 100Mbits/sec, Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) trial in Milton Keynes, BT representatives and engineers explained that pilot customers were sometimes confused when the new fibre connections appeared to be delivering speeds below expectations.

BT said that these next-generation connections - not the standard Fibre to the Cabinet or copper services rolled out to most users - are so fast that the bottleneck is not always on the network but could be in consumer hardware.

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/362245/bt-superfast-broadband-held-back-by-home-tech

[Delgado]

Always blaming someone else!

 

[Rik]

It's going to be a serious issue as we reach 100Mbps.

[chorleydave]

Who the f**k needs 100mbps?  I get 6.5Mbps and it is almost instantaneous. 

[Simon]

You could download a film in about 10 seconds?