Ofcom to bitch slap ISPs (maybe)

[RDR]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7151132.stm

About time, i hope it works.

[TechMouse]

Good for them.

Broadband vendors are almost as bad as mobile phone and energy suppliers for obfuscating their business in the name of fleecing the customer.

[Barely Human]

Deffo about time. Aol seem to be the worst for this in my experience. Was at someones house the other day who was gettin about 256 instead of 2 meg.

[dan the acid man]

yep, about time, i love it when mates brag about their 25mb bulldog connection or whatever shite they've got, without realising what speed they're actually getting

[teknorich]

Anyone know any freeware tools to test out and optimize your internet connection? I've read of a few of them, but also heard they are crap. I ran one once, which seemed to do very little, but rather oddly it said my connection was set up for a LAN, whereas I have wireless broadband.
Just wondering if I could be running faster than I am now by reconfiguring summat.

Any ideas?

[TechMouse]

Anyone know any freeware tools to test out and optimize your internet connection? I've read of a few of them, but also heard they are crap. I ran one once, which seemed to do very little, but rather oddly it said my connection was set up for a LAN, whereas I have wireless broadband.
Just wondering if I could be running faster than I am now by reconfiguring summat.

Any ideas?

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

[RDR]

www.speedtest.net