http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/03/21-billion-the-true-cost-of-snappy-broadband-emerges/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:16:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/03/21-billion-the-true-cost-of-snappy-broadband-emerges/#comment-7293 Roslyn Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-7293 After reading a story about London's broadband speed average was 4.5 Mbps and Scotland's 2.9 Mbps and how a remote village of Arnisdale which couldn't be connected conventionally has 10 Mbps via wireless broadband from a series of masts which beam the signal from the Isle of Skye, I tested my own and it was 272kbps. Oh dear! After reading a story about London’s broadband speed average was 4.5 Mbps and Scotland’s 2.9 Mbps and how a remote village of Arnisdale which couldn’t be connected conventionally has 10 Mbps via wireless broadband from a series of masts which beam the signal from the Isle of Skye, I tested my own and it was 272kbps. Oh dear!

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