Hull Digital

The Digital Britain Final Report – we want your views

Posted on20. Jun, 2009 by admin.

Too little, too late?
This post looks at the response to the Digital Britain Report, as well as asking how this effects us in our region. Hull Digital was interviewed on the BBC Radio Humberside breakfast show which you can listen to below:
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Earlier in the week, the final Digital Britain [...]

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Hull Digital on the Radio

Posted on27. Feb, 2009 by admin.

Once again, twitter has proved itself!

On Monday, having twittered that we were going to be meeting Steve Jagger from Quickline Communications to test a Wimax signal, we were surprised and pleased to get a tweet from @mrwilliam, the BBC Radio Lincolnshire’s drive time host! You can see the tweeting that went on in [...]

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Marital bliss, through harmonious networking

Posted on08. Feb, 2009 by iancleary.

A Tweet this morning from a friend got me thinking…
…I’m guessing that this is a common scenario for many people? The fact is that it doesn’t really matter how much bandwidth is available between your home network and the Internet when somebody on the network is dominating the bandwidth. If somebody on your network is [...]

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Karoo Apologises for Web Disruption

Posted on02. Jan, 2009 by admin.

There is a very amusing thread happening over on the This is Hull and East Riding website about the internet disruption caused by Karoo last night.
Of particular note in the comments on the article is this one post by Hull Gold which seems to perfectly sum up the situation:
This was because like all proper cities [...]

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Karoo Win Two Awards Shock

Posted on18. Dec, 2008 by admin.

Karoo are Hull’s one and only broadband provider, and, the truth be known, one of the region’s biggest problems.
With no choice, and essentially a monopoly, the people of Hull, normal familes and web gurus, are stuck with this ISP, leadng to a vocal volume of dissent. Their 8mb service is far from 8mb, although it [...]

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