UK 'misled' on broadband speeds, says Ofcom report

[Glenn]

Britons are not getting the broadband services they are being sold, a government report suggests.

Ofcom's analysis of broadband speeds in the UK shows that, for some services, 97% of consumers do not get the advertised speed.

It also shows a growing gap between the claims ISPs make for broadband and the speed being delivered.

To fix the problem, Ofcom is revamping the code of conduct for ISPs and asking for changes to how broadband is sold.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10760069

[Steve]

ADSL2+ has not made much of an impact really,I presume the figures include LLU with 65% of up to 20mb getting less than 8mb

[DorsetBoy]

Offcom and all the moaners fail to grasp something very simple......... there is NO advertised speed. The service is rate adaptive and quoted as speeds up to xxx.

No ISP could give a guaranteed speed, they have no control over the network,the state of the line/exchange/noise etc. BT themselves have a wide range of acceptable performance on their services.

[Technical Ben]

I think we should pay for the sync rate we get.
So "up to 8/20mb" service is £15. If we get half of that, we pay half. 

[zappaDPJ]

I think I'm suffering from deja vu but with funny little squiggles over the vowels. Did we not have the same report from the same source very recently?

[DorsetBoy]

I think we have had the same headline several times over..........

[pctech]

The only organisation with power to change this is BT.

Things will change I'm sure when VDSL becomes the norm.

[Rik]

I think we have had the same headline several times over..........

It's an annual event, isn't it?

[pctech]

Yep and in other news it has been discovered that bears deficate in the woods.

[Rik]

[DorsetBoy]

Yep and in other news it has been discovered that bears deficate in the woods.

A unique excuse for poor throughput..........

[Rik]

Lack of fibre?

[zappaDPJ]

I did have a problem with vowels earlier on.

[Rik]

I can offer some help there.