Joost

[honest]

Interesting development:

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/ar...549463,00.html

http://www.joost.com/

[Brendon]

LOL, I've already had someone b!tching over IM about "spammers who've already grabbed the WP and Blogger blogs with that name!"

[justhomdotcom]

Don't suppose anyone's got an invite code yet have they???
I've signed up for the beta program but with the amount of coverage this has got in the media im not holding my breath

[accelerator]

This looks cool, I've signed up for the beta testing, fingers crossed. It probably won't help productivity though, I'm supposed to be watching less TV this year!!

Rgds

Accelerator

[justhomdotcom]

Just got accepted onto the beta program and have downloaded joost - so far it looks pretty good even one my office 2mb adsl line , i'll check it out on the 12mb line at home when i get back.

[honest]

Who do you get 12mb with? Where do you live?

Cheers

[shyguy0507]

I've signed up

[justhomdotcom]

Originally Posted by honest Who do you get 12mb with? Where do you live? Cheers

Bulldog I should be getting 16mb but i'm 3 miles from the Shrewsbury exchange so 12 aint too bad

[honest]

Is it a cable service and if for example bt say the max I can get is 4mb will bulldog be able to beat it?

Cheers

[tbp]

The only problem I`ve seen with the service is the amount of bandwidth needed, a maximum of 320Mb an hour according to reports i`ve seen.

Fine for the US, where bandwidth is unlimited for users, but in the UK many ISP's have bandwidth caps, for instance BT Broadband home for the mid range account is 4GB a month, which Joost would quickly get through.

Even the UK's "Unlimited" bandwidth offers would quickly kick you off I`d imagine if you used it a lot, as they have conditions for "reasonable" usage with their "unlimited" offerings.

Can see a lot of people not realising this, and then getting a warning or kicked off from their ISP.

[justhomdotcom]

Yes it is bandwidth intensive and I suppose not suited if you are on a capped ADSL connection - but I use a lot more bandwidth than that all the time as I usually download TV episodes rather than record them off the tv (I can get a episode of CSI downloaded, unarchived and ready to stream to my TV in under 10 minutes).

Honest: Well BT told me I couldn't get more than 4mb on my home line and I get 12 with bulldog at a steady rate but you do take your chances, what might work for me might not work for you.

[tbp]

Ironically, on the broadband speed issue, the furthur away you are from main towns etc, the faster your speed. At work, a building stuck out in a remote village gets a much faster connection than the office in a developed town.

This is because the infrastructure of the towns is already there, and fairly old, so you get lower speeds. Remote villages haven't been hooked up before, so they get new cables to bring them broadband, which brings faster speeds.