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		<title>Why I get faster connections in the West Indies than Suffolk</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/08/why-i-get-faster-connections-in-the-west-indies-than-suffolk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/09/08/why-i-get-faster-connections-in-the-west-indies-than-suffolk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Honeyball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADSL]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My tale of woe of ADSL Max lines rumbles on. &#8220;Max&#8221; appears to mean &#8220;maximum grief&#8221; &#8211; last week, I had five different engineers visit to poke at one or the other of my pair of ADSL connections.
Lots of hmm and humpf and hmmmm resulted. At the end of the day, the fault appears to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s scandalous upload speeds</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/07/31/britains-scandalous-upload-speeds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/07/31/britains-scandalous-upload-speeds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter to The Times this morning makes a spectacularly good point about British broadband. While the mainstream media has (rightly) been roasting the broadband providers for delivering only half the download speed advertised on the tin, &#8220;the real scandal is&#8230; that the upload speed may be only a thirtieth of this [headline download speed] [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why you&#8217;re better off on LLU than BT broadband</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/07/29/why-youre-better-off-on-llu-than-bt-broadband/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/07/29/why-youre-better-off-on-llu-than-bt-broadband/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LLU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[O2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ofcom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=6535</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ofcom&#8217;s latest research into broadband speeds might have been spectacularly indecisive on the surface, but when you start digging through the 113 pages of the full report, some interesting nuggets of information begin to emerge.
One of the most noteworthy of these is that broadband customers on local loop unbundled (LLU) lines &#8211; where the ISP [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Honey, I downloaded the internet</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/07/02/honey-i-downloaded-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/07/02/honey-i-downloaded-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Honeyball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADSL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=6115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You really do have to be careful when you sign up to one of those bandwidth-limited ISP accounts. It might be cheap, especially in these financially tough times, but you must ensure you don&#8217;t bust your way out of your monthly limit and run up some huge bills.
Fortunately, I&#8217;m with an ISP that doesn&#8217;t seem [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why BT&#8217;s not the biggest broadband choker</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/02/why-bts-not-the-biggest-broadband-choker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/02/why-bts-not-the-biggest-broadband-choker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPlayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PlusNet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic shaping]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=5710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC is getting positively hot under the collar about BT&#8217;s &#8220;iPlayer throttling&#8221;. It&#8217;s nice to see the big broadcasters finally paying attention to the hidden chokes applied to our broadband connections, although readers of the Smash Your Broadband Limits feature on the cover of this month&#8217;s PC Pro would already have been well aware [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Government&#8217;s giving up on rural fibre broadband</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/04/23/the-governments-giving-up-on-rural-fibre-broadband/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/04/23/the-governments-giving-up-on-rural-fibre-broadband/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fibre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord Carter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chancellor Alistair Darling’s pledge of £250m to help Britain achieve universal broadband might sound like progress – but it’s practically an admission that rural areas will never get high-speed fibre connections.
The amount of money on the table is derisory. BT is spending £1.5 billion on bringing fibre-to-the-cabinet to 10 million homes across the country, and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Broadband-boosting iPlate now less than a tenner</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/03/09/broadband-boosting-iplate-now-less-than-a-tenner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/03/09/broadband-boosting-iplate-now-less-than-a-tenner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsdesk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPlate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=5264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My blog post last September on the broadband-boosting iPlate generated huge interest from people looking for a cheap way to increase their internet speeds. The good news is that it&#8217;s now even cheaper. Last autumn the device cost £14.81 inc VAT and delivery. Now, it can be bought from for only £9.29 on Broadbandbuyer.co.uk, making [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sunday evening &#8211; the new web rush hour</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/01/08/sunday-evening-the-new-web-rush-hour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/01/08/sunday-evening-the-new-web-rush-hour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsdesk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=4968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Few will be surprised by the new Ofcom research that reveals actual broadband speeds are less than half of those advertised by the ISPs. 
But the one big shock to come out of the detailed research is that the peak rush hour, when average web speeds slow to a crawl, is in fact Sunday between 5pm [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>The online exile</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/12/10/the-online-exile/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/12/10/the-online-exile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Turton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[View from the Labs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=4635</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Stand still a second. Can you hear that faint whooshing noise in the distance? That&#8217;s your entire life jumping online, that is.
A child born today will more than likely have their entire existence uploaded: those cute thumb-sucking baby photos dumped on Flickr, the first steps on YouTube, school days on Facebook, teacher reports and grades [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Yet another Ofcom own goal</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/12/05/yet-another-ofcom-own-goal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/12/05/yet-another-ofcom-own-goal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsdesk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ofcom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Which?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ofcom is once again patting itself on the back for a job well done on its new broadband Code of Practice. “Which? magazine has hailed the code, which comes into force tomorrow, as a broadband speed victory,” the regulator’s homepage proudly proclaims. Utter cobblers.
Let’s look at the detail. The centrepiece of Ofcom’s Code is that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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