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Now that is what you call bandwidth

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UK broadband provider Be is now rolling out it's 24MB downstream and 1MB upstream service. Yes, you read that correctly. Twenty Four Megabit.

And all for only 20 UKP (or around 37$).

Wow. I want one.

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ac said:

I guess that's something until you consider that in Sweden there was mainstream 100/100 Mbit 3-4 years ago (your xMB is wrong since that would imply 2.4 Gbit) but after a year they dropped it to 10/10 Mbit. 24/1 has been around here for around half year in the bigger cities and longer in other countries so this isn't news.

ac said:

Easy to get these wrong. What I meant to say that isn't the MB for Megabytes not bits. And I meant 0.24 Gbit not 2.4 :-)

Steve said:

Well, considering that I used to live in the UK (where this is a new consumer bandwidth high), and that I now live in the US (where these kinds of consumer bandwidths don't exist), this certainly is news to me.

Regarding the numbers, bandwidth AFAIK is always measured in Megabit. MB can be either megabyte or megabit - hence consumer confusion. I wish people *would* use MByte and MBit when talking about bandwidth.

dmouse said:

OMG - ordering this when i get my mac address!!! Good news! We are currently expecting to enable your exchange in Oct-2005

W00T

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