Eh, I'm sorry but last time I checked, 341 KILOBYTES per second translates to over 3 megaBITS per second so no matter what he was downloading off, those speeds are excellent for 3Mb broadband.
And I doubt we will see either 8MB through phonelines or even 40MB through cable anytime in the near future - first of all, to get reliable 8MB the phone companies would need an (expensive) upgrade to ADSL2+ which means replacing all of the ADSLv1 modems (over 100,000 I believe). And, in order to get 40MB through cable, NTL / UPC will need to change everything over to DOCSIS 2.0 or even DOCSIS 3.0 and, AFAIK (could be wrong though), this also will need equipment upgrades in the headend and possibly new cable modems for everybody. And tbh, I think ntl are more interested in getting 100% cable broadband coverage in Dublin, Galway and Waterford first. NTL's systems are good up to about 10 or 15 Mb per second downstream.
And really, why would any of the broadband providers bother upping the speed? Unless they face competition from other higher speed carriers there is no logic for them to increase speeds.  |