Can the Internet cope with The World Cup?

submitted on Thursday 24th June 2010 at 2:19 pm by SOL Support

As England fans rejoice beating Slovenia 1-0, Internet Service Providers are carefully assessing the impact of the World Cup on their network capacity. The match between England and Slovenia kicked off at 3 p.m. and this meant that more users were resorting to watching it online on BBC iPlayer or other streaming services whilst still at work. This phenomenon resulted in sharp traffic increa...full article >>

UK urged to up its game in fibre rollout by FTTH Council

submitted on Monday 14th June 2010 at 2:27 pm by SOL Support

The UK is at risk of being left behind if we don't rapidly increase our fibre broadband rollout according the Fiber-to-the-Home Council. The UK has only 5,000 homes connected to directly with fibre connections to the home, rising to 2.5 million in Europe, whilst the Far East steams ahead with 38 million connections. "The Digital Agenda for Europe document goes some way to addressin...full article >>

UK's culture secretary lays out broadband plans

submitted on Monday 14th June 2010 at 2:18 pm by SOL Support

Jeremy Hunt, the UK's culture secretary has today spoken on broadband for the first time and put forward a "series of actions" that he hopes will help boost our broadband infrastructure to be comparable with other countries around the world. The previous governments commitment to roll out 2Mbps broadband to everyone under a universal service commitment (USC) is described as &q...full article >>

New Webmail System

submitted on Monday 14th June 2010 at 1:28 pm by SOL Support

Over the past few days, if you are a frequent user of our webmail system, you may have noticed a slightly different look and feel to it when you login. To improve the reliability and speed of the service we have moved our webmail to a new system which in the short and long term will prove to be considerably faster and also a more reliable web email solution. In terms of the use of the s...full article >>

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