SCREAMING AT MY COMPUTER DOESN'T HELP SPEED UP MY SLOW BROADBAND CONNECTION

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It's increasingly frustrating to be getting constant buffering, drop-outs and frozen screens nowadays.

Whilst I fully appreciate that many people have even slower connection speeds than ours, it appears that the people who write the programs or make decisions to 'only offer their service online' seem convinced that we all have superfast broadband connections......WE DON'T !!!

My son is at Uni learning to write computer games animation, and part of their online assumptions are that there is a basic 8Mb speed to allow their programmes to function properly. Whilst trying to watch Youtube or I-Player, I get regular messages saying 'we do not appear to be able to detect a broadband connection' or 'your connection is too slow to view the following content'.

Come on UK - get a grip - the world is now ONLINE so why o why are we still piffling with 1.5Mb speeds that stall as soon as an image appears or a background function kicks in.

BT say their lines are fine, the ISP's blame BT, unless you're with BT they blame your IPS, and all the while we're still paying our £20+ per month for the thrill of being frustrated and irritated by a world that just seems to be leaving those living outside the main centres of habitation behind.

Then, if you want to 'bind' 2 lines together to get a doubled speed they tell you - sorry sir, that is only available to Business users - just kick us in the teeth, rob us while we're bleeding in the gutter and make sure that we say thank you for the pleasure of the pain inflicted by our cold technological world.

Aaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhh - I'm pulling my hair out and have had enough. 

Breathe..........in...........out...........in............out...........there...........therapy complete...........now for a bit of gardening !


I'll be better tomorrow I'm sure !