What they WONT tell you about Broadband

In the UK broadband is getting out of hand.

It wasnt long ago that download speeds were of dial-up quality, 2-4kb per second. I wont go into a long rant about how we are now enjoying 8meg download speeds and all that - thats nothing more than looking a gift horse in the mouth.

But here is what they dont tell you. While you get wonderful download rates of 8128 kbps, the upload speeds are only 832. That means your ability to upload data is one tenth of your download ability.

Now this isnt an issue Im taking a stand on for P2P networks, but for businesses who need to share data over intranets and the internet. Using a database program, but sourcing the data on a networked business server is difficult because of the lack of synchronised data speeds.

Imagine using a program where you got the data in one second, but took you ten seconds to send that same data back.