* Posts by Felim_Doyle

5 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jul 2019

Tweaks to IPv4 could free up 'hundreds of millions of addresses'

Felim_Doyle

Virgin Media* in the Republic of Ireland has IPv6 because it inherited the network from NTL so they have the technology elswhere, just having difficulty implementing it in the UK.

*Virgin Media in this context is actually Liberty Global using the VM name under licence.

FYI: If the latest Windows 11 really wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what

Felim_Doyle

Re: against EU laws???

The EU anti-competitive laws have been invoked several times in relation to Microsoft tightly integrating its software, including browsers, into the Windows operating system. Whether or not the US Department of Justice does anything about this latest anti-competitive practice, the EU Commission will although how long it will take is always an unknown. Really they need to do it now before the rollout of Windows 11.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission?wprov=sfla1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu?wprov=sfla1

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21684329

Felim_Doyle

You choose to use it.

Felim_Doyle

Apple's unscrupulous control over people's iDevices, such as slowing down CPUs to disguise battery issues or encourage upgrading, is very wrong and the US DoJ and EU Commission need to put an end to it.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-apple-throttling-iphones/

Virgin Media promises speeds of 1Gpbs to 15 million homes – all without full fibre

Felim_Doyle

Apples and oranges

As many others have stated, gigabit and even high-hundred-bit downstream speeds are excessive for most users currently but the infrastructure still needs to be in place for those who may require it now and for the requirements of the future as technology, such as Ultra High Definition TV, evolves.

I had a 150Mb/s downstream fibre-to-the-cabinet, coax-to-the-home connection with VM which I attained through a series of free upgrades from, IIRC, 10Mb/s to 20Mb/s then 100Mb/s and ultimately 150Mb/s over about twenty five years. However, the upstream speed has remained at a nominal 6Mb/s due to the historical limitations of DOCSIS networks. There are higher downstream speed packages available which include a moderate upgrade to the upstream speed but hopefully, when VM rolls out DOCSIS 3.1, there will be a better ratio of upstream to downstream or even synchronous data rates.

I downgraded my connection to 100Mb/s last year to save money and even that is still superfluous to my needs although I would like to have a higher upstream speed. I run multiple computers with a variety of operating systems, numerous handheld devices and other internet connected equipment and I'm just beginning to experiment with VoIP. I can still survive quite happily with my 100Mb/s connection though.

The immediate aim should be to provide a minimum offering of 25Mb/s downstream and 5Mb/s or, better still, 10Mb/s upstream nationally. Then, where feasible, packages of 50Mb/s, 100Mb/s, 250Mb/s and upwards should be offered with a minimum downstream to upstream ratio of 5:1 available in those packages with 1:1 options being the ideal goal. Like the energy companies that had hundreds of gas and electricity tariffs, the telecommunications companies need to be told to have simplified, comparable plans and easy switching between alternative providers.

Although cable companies, such as VM, don't offer service everywhere yet, the OpenReach network combined with satellite and microwave providers should offer sufficient choice for everyone by 2025. However, ridiculous races to provide unnecessarily high, commercial rate speeds at the expense of offering reasonable speeds to a wider area of the country should be discouraged.