Rural areas need satellites

May 26th, 2009

One of the main problems that web designers in suffolk find for local East Anglian people is that a lot of people just live too far away from telephone exchanges and get poor broadband performance. The same problem also is there for cable services, that never bother to roll out there services to rural communities. Web design suffolk know that a lot of rural communities need the web, but so many just can’t get a decent service, if they can get a service at all.

Things might just be changing though, with satellite technology possibly providing rural areas with the key to accessing faster broadband services. The down-side web design suffolk has found, is that the initial set-up fees can possibly be very prohibitive. French communications company Eutelsat will charge a monthly subscription of £29.99 for a 2 Mbits service ans the company say they are planning a 10Mbits service next year. The downside - the cost of the satellite dish and, modem and installation would costs more than £600 - putting it beyond the reach of a lot of people.

Broadband Speed Restrictions

May 11th, 2009

When you sign up for Broadband these days, no matter who your provider might be - you might find a few surprises when it comes to speed restrictions. You will certainly get the big grandstanding statement they all make which is unlimited downloads - which web design suffolk normally discovers means nothing of the sort - but what you wont get is any mention of speed restrictions. Yet a large number of ISP’s now impose speed restrictions on most of their customers.

What happens normally is that the heavy users get hit first and hit hard. Speed is usually throttled in busy periods such as first thing in the morning and late afternoon and early evening when the kids come home and hit the network. What web design suffolk has found is that speed can be reduced dramatically - sometimes down from say 10mbps rto 2.5mbps. Users may also find that these restrictions are not exactly accurate when it come to time and the reduced speed can often persist outside the restricted periods.

Its basically called traffic management and ISP’s do it because the network is getting throortled by too many suers downloadint oo much stuff. You canb’t blame them for tryign to make an even playing field for everybody, but we can blame them for misleading new customers with slogans about unlimited speed 24/7, when they usually give nothing of the sort.