What modem/speed/dial up/broadband service is recommended for Boro-Stat?
Any modem will download Boro-Stat data, however 56K modems are the fastest of the dial up versions. In the UK and around the world now dial up modems are increasingly seen as yesterdays technology – giving way to faster broadband services. ISDN lines of 64k or 128k are quicker than dial up but again thes are now giving way rapidly to broadband connections. From 2005 1mb & 2mb broadband connections have become standard across the UK. Roll out of 4mb, 8mb 12mb and 32mb is taking now commonplace and rolling out to vast sections of the country quickly as we move through 2008-2009. The faster your broadband service the faster pages will load from the internet/Boro-Stat. From 2008 much higher speed broadband connections are being introduced and 20mb for example is currently already available in the Stockton area. The future, 2009-2010 holds some major advances in broadband connections speeds – these faster services will enable “instant” page formation and even pages with high levels of image
