[OT-ish] How big is the UK 'net?

[Ken Brown]

Ian G Batten wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Ken Brown wrote:
 
> I don't follow this (yes, disclaimed, I'm the IT director of one of the
> two main manufacturers of DSL for BT and I was involved in the original
> IP/DSL architecture work).  DSL is 500K down, 250K up or, at the worst,
> 500K down, 128ishK up.  As the employer of 1000 people, we have a 2M
> internet connection, and once you get outside academia that sort of
> contention ratio is pretty standard. 

OK, I exaggerated for effect - I guess I'm still bitter about the last
20 years - in the early 1980s I honestly thought we'd be about to get
[what became] ISDN all over the place Real Soon and then something else
even better after that, & what actually happened was very different...

 
> > For ordinary modem users - the vast majority of private Internet users -
> 
> DSL is installing at around ten thousand per week.

So it catches up with the modem base in 10 years  :-)