[Gllug] On a Fasthost adv.

[Richard Huxton]

Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 19:21 +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote:
>>> In what sense should your friend actually be furious or otherwise
>>> unhappy with a 1Mb connection if that's all his line can sustain?
>> He should be unhappy on two counts: 
>>
>> His "broadband" provider will have told him that much faster speeds are
>> available, when they're obviously not.
> 
> Did they or did they say up to 8Mb? It's not the same thing and anyone
> should be able to tell the difference.

The problem is that "up to 8Mb" means "probably 7Mb" to 95% of the 
public. The figure is intended to deceive, otherwise it would say 
"typically 1-2Mb".

If you bought something with a battery-life of "up to 12 hours" and it 
lasted two, you'd not be best pleased, would you?

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd
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