Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
Dear Dover resident,
Do you need faster broadband?
Make Kent Quicker aims to provide superfast broadband access by 2015 to 90% of homes and businesses in Kent and for everyone to have access to a service of at least 2mb. Faster broadband will have huge benefits for people and businesses in Dover and its economy. Please see attached flyer for your information.
https://shareweb.kent.gov.uk/Documents/community-and-living/Broadband/broadbandposter_dover.pdf
Kent County Council and the Government are investing over £20m to help make this happen but to achieve our ambitions we need broadband providers to invest in Kent too. And to do this we need to demonstrate there is a big demand.
Please vote now for faster broadband as the greater the demand, the more broadband providers will be prepared to invest in your local area.
It only takes five minutes to register and to make a difference. Please encourage your family, friends, work colleagues and neighbours to get involved too.
Register your demand at
http://www.makekentquicker.com
Thank you for your help with this.
Kind regards
Jennie
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
- Posts: 1,052
#2
Done.
That link did not connect, Paul. Hopefully this will let people get through:
http://www.makekentquicker.com
No! It comes up with a DF prefix and therefore an error message. Need someone with more IT skills than I have!
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
#3
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#4
I have just tested mine and my download speed is 9.31mb/s so I am happy.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#5
Alright for some - at home I am lucky to get 2mb/s !
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
- Posts: 221
#6
Well according to their speed test mine is 19.69 mb/s. Virgin must have done their upgrade. Not that it means a lot in practice though, I still keep getting BBC iPlayer dropping out, web browsing is no quicker, and downloads depend on where I'm downloading from.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#7
I am so glad that Kent council (whichever one of the plethora) are driving for increased access and speeds of domestic and company broadband. Elsewhere the money has been earmarked to set up wi-fi in town/city centres and so focusing on the G3, iPap end of things and leaving their local populations pretty much as they are with their poor service.
[Mark & Paul. The link for some reason began, URL/letters/www. etc. Once recopied to begin,
www. all was fine. I stuck the
http:// on for good measure]
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
- Posts: 221
#8
We're getting faster broadband anyway aren't we, that's what all these DSLAMS are for, they will give up to 40 mb/s. The only way it could be quicker is to run fibre to every property.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#9
Yes Tom - I'd rather sit at home and have decent broadband rather than have to drive to Dover to sit on a bench in the high street to get the speeds
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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#10
My max upload is a measly 1.2mb/s, download 0.3!
I have found the info put out by KCC a bit confusing. I thought the main purpose of this program was to provide high speed broadband to places that didn't yet have it supplied via fibre optics by a commercial company like Virgin and have to rely on BT copper cables (or in the case of Lydden ferrous cables if you're unfortunate enough to live in the wrong part of the village). Now they seem to be targetting towns that already have it supplied, which if that is right will slow down the rollout to rural areas.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#11
Out of curiosity I did the speed test today. 8.8 meg in Castle st but 227k in Eythorne!
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#12
Ray, that is the sorry trend. Everybody should have fast and reliable access to the internet. It should therefore be a requirement!
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#13
Another Human Right, Tom?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#14
More, good common sense Peter.
Just as we can be sure that thousands of potential philosophers, scientists, economists and artists of all sorts have been slaughtered in childhood throughout the history of warfare, so too we can be sure that unless web-access tends to the universal yet more such potential will be lost to the human race.
There was a few minutes ago on Watchdog an item on the cost levied by hotels for the supply of wi-fi access with most charging and a few which are free. It is "short sighted", said one hotelier, to restrict such access, but what does any successful business person know of these things?
It is normal for the staid thinking of the British ruling 'classes' and their admirers to poo-poo progress that does not first provide them with their accustomed 'bunce'. It took us quite some time to provide telephone connection in new-build houses. How sensible does such antediluvian thinking sound today? Oops! Of course, it sounds just fine.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#15
Our wi-fi access is free of charge to customers.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#16
I had that in the back of my mind Peter. You are right and you are human. Something which makes your #13 self advertising?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
