My main concern with my connection atm is not whether i'm getting the advertising bandwidth, but whether I can get decent latency on my connection as I use my connection for gaming. I would love to have a 4Mb connection to catch up with my Swedish friends with 100Mb connections, but it just seems like giving it to blackmail if i get enticed for this offer.

Well, if anyone does get the new 4mb connection within the promotion period, I would be most grateful if you would run some pings/tracerts for me so that i can make a decision on whether to give in to blackmail or not.

Wasn't there some issue a while back with the governing delaying implementation of local loop unbundling (or in the case of streamyx unbungling) that would have allowed easier access to competitors?

In any case, hopefully some early adopters can come forward with some 4mb latency results before I ultimately give in to the black mailing.