A report out today by Which? Consumer Group reveals a massive gap between the speeds that are offered by the UK’s leading broadband providers and the actually speed reported by customers.

In the survey Which? tested 300 consumer lines and found that the average broadband  speed was 2.7mbs, a far cry from the 8mbs advertised my many of the providers.

The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has investigated several cases of misleading promotions, most recently asking one provider to make it clear in its adverts that speed was dependent on how far away from the exchange people lived.

A BT spokesman confirmed that 8Mbps would be a rarity for users.

"Virtually no-one will get it. The laws of physics start applying as soon as it leaves the exchange and you would have to live on top of the exchange to get the full 8 megabits"

he said.

Beating Physics

Dynamic imaging technology allows Netfury Broadband Accelerator to load web pages much faster than normal with no trade off in quality. Although images appear degraded when a web page first loads overtime the quality improves to near original image quality. The more visits you make to specific website the better performance you will receive.

Which ISP?

If you'd like to find out more information about Broadband Internet service providers, compare prices, speeds and read other consumer reviews then read more at which? ISP.

The latest version of Netfury Accelerator is proven to load pages three to seven times faster, and can sometimes load 25 times faster or more, while delivering near-original final image quality.*

So what’s new in 6.1?

Improved Compression: Netfury’s dramatic compression improvements for HTTP and POP3 uploads/downloads take acceleration to new levels of performance. The compressed data allows wireless broadband providers to support more subscribers on their networks, and it also benefits wired providers by enhancing network throughput and efficiency.

Connection Optimisation: Netfury has tuned its connection optimisation for greater performance on high speed and wireless connections, while maintaining performance for dial-up and lower speed customers.

Improved Mozilla Firefox Support: Netfury Accelerator 6.1 eliminates the need for users to manually change the proxy settings in Firefox. In addition, Firefox users can now view the original quality, uncompressed images through the right-click menu, a feature previously only available in Internet Explorer.

Dynamic Imaging: Dynamic Imaging enables browsers to quickly build usable versions of Web pages by first loading lower-quality preview images and then filling in details as they become available. This results in a much faster, improved browsing experience.

Enhanced Vista Compatibility: Vista users now enjoy enhanced compatibility with Netfury Accelerator 6.1.   

* Results vary depending on where and how you surf.

With only 30 exchanges within the UK yet to be converted to broadband it's easy to assume that no one suffers from a slow Internet connection and everyone is enjoying high speed ADSL Internet Access but it's simply not true.

First off there are the people that live within those 30 exchanges that can't convert to broadband, then there's everyone who simply doesn't want to. For some people the Internet isn't a fundamental part of their life and is just a tool they use occasionally to find this, or check that, but nothing more. For these casual occasional users, committing to £Xs a month for high speed Internet access just doesn't make economic sense but slow Internet connections can be a problem.

Next are broadband users that suffer slow Internet connections due to poor service, network congestion, over subscription, peak time use and bandwidth restrictions.

That's where the Netfury Internet Accelerator comes in. Anyone that suffers from a slow Internet connection should consider using the Netfury Internet Accelerator. Our Internet Accelerator can increase your Internet connection speed typically making it 3-7 times faster.

If you suffer from a slow Internet connection then give your connection speed a test and consider improving it by using the Netfury Internet Accelerator.

The Netfury Blog – www.netfury.info

Well you know this exists because you’re here already. The idea behind the Netfury blog is it allows us to report on developments with the various Netfury products and gives us a platform to engage with you the end user. We welcome feedback via our blog and encourage you the user to get involved in the progression of the products.

The Netfury Accelerator End User Website – www.netfury.co.uk

This is the end user site for Netfury Internet Accelerator. If you’re looking for a dial up Internet Accelerator or broadband Internet Accelerator or you’d like to register your interest in our future mobile phone Internet Accelerator then this is the website you need.

The Netfury Accelerator End User Website For Mobile Devices – www.netfury.mobi

If you’re browsing this blog with a mobile device then hopefully the wordpress mobile device plugin has kicked in and you’re viewing an appropriate version of this blog for your mobile device. We’ve a vested interest in Mobile Internet due to our planned Mobile Netfury Internet Accelerator in the near future so we’ve developed a version of the end user site specifically for mobile devices.

The Netfury Accelerator ISP / Reseller Website – www.netfury.eu

If you’re an existing ISP or run affiliate websites and you’re interested in reselling the Netfury Internet Accelerator to your customer base then this is the site for you. There’s loads of information on the benefits to the ISP / reseller and the benefits of using the accelerator for your end users.