Pipex Gears Up For 24 Meg Broadband

8 Sep, 2005 at 2:17pm ET Article published in Tech

UK ISP Pipex is gearing up to offer punters 24 meg broadband as part of their investment in local loop unbundling (LLU). The ISP, which had 215,000 broadband punters at the end of June, is to wire up 60 BT (British Telecom) exchanges to provide broadband direct to punters.

“We have selected those exchanges where we have at least 400 customers within 5kms of our core network, providing a payback within 24 months,” said the ISP today. Investing in LLU means that Pipex should be able to save money, but it will also be only be able to offer new services and speeds of up to 24 meg.

In my opinion, Pipex are the number one BT infrastructure based internet service provider in the UK. They continue to successfully create a happy medium between their own growth and their customer’s needs and they have a customer support service that is second to none. I don’t offer ringing endorsements often, but in this case it’s deserved. Looking forward to LLU.

Source: The Register

Comments

8 Sep 2005 ~ 5:14pm EMT Sorry, what's a punter?
8 Sep 2005 ~ 5:25pm Necropolis

EMT wrote:

Sorry, what's a punter?

Taken from the The English-to-American dictionary

punter n. The nearest equivalent to an omnisex version of bloke. A punter is usually a customer of some sort, but this need not be the case. I believe that originally a punter was someone placing bets at a racecourse. However, as the language developed natural progression decreed that, as the greater proportion of the British public were susceptible to a flutter, it described almost all of us. However, because of the word's gambling roots, punters are regarded slightly warily and shouldn't be taken at face value. In the US, the punter is the member of an American Football team charged with punting the ball a decent distance.

But its good to see some decent investment being put into UK broadband
8 Sep 2005 ~ 9:55pm kanezfan /me thinks of his 3Mb/s connection and is envious.

Don't most cable ISPs have the ability to get us 100Mb/sec anyways? Why do they hold out? Bastards!
9 Sep 2005 ~ 2:08am Shorty

Necropolis wrote:

Taken from the The English-to-American dictionary

punter n. The nearest equivalent to an omnisex version of bloke. A punter is usually a customer of some sort, but this need not be the case. I believe that originally a punter was someone placing bets at a racecourse. However, as the language developed natural progression decreed that, as the greater proportion of the British public were susceptible to a flutter, it described almost all of us. However, because of the word's gambling roots, punters are regarded slightly warily and shouldn't be taken at face value. In the US, the punter is the member of an American Football team charged with punting the ball a decent distance.

That's great
9 Sep 2005 ~ 7:53am Enverex Hmmm, I'm ~5km from the exchange, I wonder if with LLU that it would be possible to get over 1Mb... (I can JUST about get 1Mb at the moment).
9 Sep 2005 ~ 11:20am RADA

kanezfan wrote:

/me thinks of his 3Mb/s connection and is envious.

Don't most cable ISPs have the ability to get us 100Mb/sec anyways? Why do they hold out? Bastards!

Think your right - COX Cable here in Tucson just upped the city to 9Mb downloads & 4Mb uploads. I just installed a new Motorola Surfboard cable modem (old one was 1st generation), all I can say is WOW! Never realized my modem was such a bottleneck till now.

Motorola SURFboard Model SB5120 @ BestBuy
9 Sep 2005 ~ 6:23pm airbornflght I have cox in enid okalahoma and I get 5 megs. used to only be 4..i want 9 megs..!!!
10 Sep 2005 ~ 4:46pm kanezfan 9mb??!??!!?! Come on Comcast, let's get with the program!

Wait 4mb up????? are you sure???
10 Sep 2005 ~ 4:55pm Enverex You are aware that like only a few hundred people in the entire UK are going to be able to get this right Kanez?
10 Sep 2005 ~ 5:30pm kanezfan

Enverex wrote:

You are aware that like only a few hundred people in the entire UK are going to be able to get this right Kanez?

Why? Price or infrastructure?
10 Sep 2005 ~ 6:14pm Enverex Infrastructure. Takes ages for anything to roll out here then it's only key places. Anywhere else they either don't care about or is out of range.
11 Sep 2005 ~ 2:22pm RADA Correction:

I misread the Download/Upload speeds - Cox Tucson has 2 programs

Prefered = 4Mbps Downloads/512kbps Uploads

Premier = 9Mbps Downloads/1Mbps Uploads

Sorry

*RADA goes out to get thicker reading glasses...........
11 Sep 2005 ~ 2:41pm entropy Still. 1 mbps up is better than I average at nighttime for downspeeds

Charter can just die.
11 Sep 2005 ~ 5:54pm RADA Speed Tests: Cox Cable Tucson, AZ