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Nuke war, meteorite hit could disrupt your signal

Published Wednesday 7th May 2008 09:38 GMT

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Regional nuclear war? 

By Chris Hamilton
Posted Wednesday 7th May 2008 09:46 GMT
Coat

Something tells me that if we do end up in the midst of a nuclear war with France, that getting wireless congestion reports about the state of the M32 will be the least of my worries, regardless of spectrum concerns.....

"Congestion ahead! Please leave the Motorway at the next exit. The road ahead has been vapourised."

All hail our new masters at Ofcom. Mines the yellow plastic one with the trefoil on the back!

"A large asteroid impact or regional nuclear war" 

By Mike Richards
Posted Wednesday 7th May 2008 09:50 GMT

Are actually the last two entries left in BT Total Broadband Technical Support's Bumper Book of Excuses as to why my ADSL connection is so shite.

Living in an SP3 world.. 

By s. pam
Posted Wednesday 7th May 2008 10:23 GMT
Unhappy

Luser alert -- what on earth are the boffins on and where can i get some? seems in more developed countries a fair bit of this stuff is already in deployment ready for the amusement of BOFH's for plenty of lunchtimes to come. each time i see this kind of ridiculous reports from some gubmnt department it makes me all the happier i have immigrated from the UK to Oz. at least here, they know a lemming's a lemming when a lemming reports lemming information to a all too guidable press

ADSL goes up to 50Mbps? 

By Mark.L.P
Posted Wednesday 7th May 2008 11:22 GMT
IT Angle

Is that right, I thought ADSL2+ was the fastest and could only reach 24Mbps?

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/jargon/index.php?p=default&cat=1#a27

The Wiki also agrees, not that Wiki's are always right:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADSL

I think the news may mean VDSL2+ or something like that, which can achieve something near to 50Mbps (45/48Mbps).

how the hell are you gonna get a wifi signal 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Wednesday 7th May 2008 11:55 GMT
Coat

I got a dirty great big 2.4-2.5Ghz jammer at home,

So to the 28 AP's +(50+ pc's) within 350m of me, TOUGH S#!% !!!

Now, dealing with the 100 post office vehicles in the nearby depot (all fitted) with GPS/GSM\3G is gonna be more of a problem.... along with the Huge 3G mast on top is just a pain.

(i wonder if the Post Office workers union is aware the post office management are frying all thier members on the road and in the offices)

......looks like i'm gonna be moving to another 3rd World country, (maybe i can find one that is a real democracy), ah to hell with it, maybe a dictatorship would be better!

you know being paid a dollar a day would be a payrise for me at the moment.

illuminatus;p

Regional nuclear war 

By Mister Cheese
Posted Wednesday 7th May 2008 11:59 GMT
Paris Hilton

That like Anglia viewers vs Central viewers in the battle of who has the best-looking weather-girls? Paris, cos I bet she knows how to use a pointy stick.

"congestion will be a thing of the past" 

By Ru
Posted Wednesday 7th May 2008 12:41 GMT
Stop

Right, right. I wonder how this can be established, just via better communications?

If the road from A to B can carry X cars, and on a nice sunny day 2X cars try to go down it, it is still going to get jammed.

But I guess that 'in certain areas congestion can be reduced at certain times' isn't quite so snappy.

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