Jul 262009
 

Just found this. It doesn’t sound too good, but perhaps it only applies to O2 Mobile Broadband. I would check their terms and conditions but the site appears to be down at the moment.

Top of the Phorm

 Posted by Philtheone at 12:33 pm  Uncategorized
Jul 102009
 

Success! Shares in Phorm dived 40% yesterday when BT said it wouldn’t be using their system (although they have not fully terminated their agreement with them). Phorm is a company started by people that made money by infecting your computer with spyware that now offers a similar service that you can do nothing about. At [...more]

Vive la Revolution?

 Posted by Philtheone at 1:21 pm  Uncategorized
Jun 162009
 

So, Lord Carter today will be announcing a £3billion “Digital Britain” project for delivering broadband internet to every home in the UK as well as plans for “combatting” piracy. Their benchmark for bandwidth is 2Mbit which, yes, compared to dialup is fast but compared to all broadband connections in the UK at the moment is [...more]

Jul 072008
 

I’ve been with Virgin Media, or Blueyonder as it was for about 7 or 8 years now. We got it installed when they first dug the road up past our house to put the cable lines down, and were mightily impressed with the blazing download speed of 52k/s (0.5 megabit). Who wouldn’t be when the [...more]

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