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Title: Broadband speed.
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 12 February 2015, 17:48:34

Upload 0.35

Download 6.94.


It has been shit slow recently.
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: AndyRoid on 12 February 2015, 17:56:43
162 Mbps downstream

12 Mbps upstream
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 12 February 2015, 18:01:11
5.36 mbps Download

1.65 mbps Upload

That's mobile internet from 3 with my laptop tethered to my Sony Xperia T  :)
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: TheBoy on 12 February 2015, 18:19:26
16Mb up, 12 down. But I am sat on the train
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 12 February 2015, 18:29:22
What would be a good upload figure?

What would be a good download figure?

Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: Varche on 12 February 2015, 18:29:57
My god , you UK wallahs don't know you are born. You have mega fast broadband and very cheap too.

Revel in it. If you were in rural Spain Opti and not rural England you would be gratefuiul for what you have at twice the price. Wouldn't be as sunny of course- you can't have everything. :-\ :-\
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: TheBoy on 12 February 2015, 18:37:29
What would be a good upload figure?

What would be a good download figure?
adsl2 max down is approx 20Mb, max up is 1Mb
Fttc max down either 38 or 76 and max up 2, 10 or 19 depending what you paid for
Virgin, depends on service and neighbours
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 12 February 2015, 18:45:20
What would be a good upload figure?

What would be a good download figure?
adsl2 max down is approx 20Mb, max up is 1Mb
Fttc max down either 38 or 76 and max up 2, 10 or 19 depending what you paid for
Virgin, depends on service and neighbours

So is an upload of 0.35 reasonable?
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: TheBoy on 12 February 2015, 18:53:40
Depends hw far from exchange. If a fair way, and you're on ADSL or adsl2, yeah, reasonable
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: aaronjb on 12 February 2015, 19:02:28
What would be a good upload figure?

What would be a good download figure?
adsl2 max down is approx 20Mb, max up is 1Mb
Fttc max down either 38 or 76 and max up 2, 10 or 19 depending what you paid for
Virgin, depends on service and neighbours

FTTP (if you're one of the 10 people who can get it) - 330Mb down
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: TheBoy on 12 February 2015, 19:03:49
29.7m down, 16.7m up, somewhere between haddenam and chearsley, on the chiltern slug
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: TheBoy on 12 February 2015, 19:04:54
29.7m down, 16.7m up, somewhere between haddenam and chearsley, on the chiltern slug
Shortly before losing all cellular signal!
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: TheBoy on 12 February 2015, 19:06:13
What would be a good upload figure?

What would be a good download figure?
adsl2 max down is approx 20Mb, max up is 1Mb
Fttc max down either 38 or 76 and max up 2, 10 or 19 depending what you paid for
Virgin, depends on service and neighbours

FTTP (if you're one of the 10 people who can get it) - 330Mb down
Opti can't where he lives
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: TheBoy on 12 February 2015, 19:06:45
And I think the upload is 30mb for fttp?
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: b4ndit on 12 February 2015, 19:35:33
down load 37 upload 9 not to bad :)
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: AndyRoid on 13 February 2015, 12:19:50
So is an upload of 0.35 reasonable?
Depends on what you want to do with it really.

If I want to access my brothers ROKU box on my TV here, it would be a complete waste of time as it would be unwatchable.
If I wanted to send an e-mail or two though, no problem.
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: zirk on 13 February 2015, 12:39:21
Does'nt seem that long ago I was paying BT £120 a qtr for ISDN2 at home which gave me 64 + 64Kbs, the first channel was free if you dialed a 0800 number but if you wanted the Full Monty of 128kbs you would end up paying 8p per min on top for a 0800. still better than the 56K dial up which would deliver 14.4kbs if you were lucky in my street.

Also remember being in a Hotel in Brum, and having to use my Ericsson Mobile on Data (GSM) trying to upload a update from London for the next morning, 5 floppies worth at 1.4Mb each took just over 3 hours.  >:( 
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: minifreek on 13 February 2015, 14:44:45
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/4140011724.png) (http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4140011724)
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: aaronjb on 13 February 2015, 14:51:26
One of our guys living in Stockholm has 250Mb down, 250Mb up. It's only that "slow" because (in his words) he thought the 1000Mb down, 1000Mb up service was a little too expensive.. but one of our other Swedish colleagues does have the symmetric Gb connection.

Hate them. Hate them I do.
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: Mr.OmegaMan on 13 February 2015, 15:30:19
Quit your complaining... Still on copper wire around here.  ;D :-X

57ping - 1.8mbps Download - 0.37mbps upload

Primarily why I have to hot spot my phone to download anything in any kind of reasonable time scale...
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: henryd on 13 February 2015, 17:56:54
Deepest depths of Cornwall and achieving 35 megs down and 10 megs up which ain't bad for down ere  :y





Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: TheBoy on 14 February 2015, 09:37:16
down load 37 upload 9 not to bad :)
Fixed line FTTC? Sounds close to a 38/10 service :y
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: TheBoy on 14 February 2015, 09:40:30
Quit your complaining... Still on copper wire around here.  ;D :-X

57ping - 1.8mbps Download - 0.37mbps upload

Primarily why I have to hot spot my phone to download anything in any kind of reasonable time scale...
If, up to 2yrs ago (so in its busiest period), I could run OOF behind a 2m down, 276k up line, along with all my other internet needs, I'm sure you could optimise your internet usage better ;)
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: Mr.OmegaMan on 14 February 2015, 17:57:40
Quit your complaining... Still on copper wire around here.  ;D :-X

57ping - 1.8mbps Download - 0.37mbps upload

Primarily why I have to hot spot my phone to download anything in any kind of reasonable time scale...
If, up to 2yrs ago (so in its busiest period), I could run OOF behind a 2m down, 276k up line, along with all my other internet needs, I'm sure you could optimise your internet usage better ;)

Not when downloading stuff in the Gigabytes, As you said browsing the net normaly is fine on this connection it's just not good for demanding tasks  :y
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: The Sheriff on 14 February 2015, 20:51:59
Our internet conne tion is dropping out quite a bit recently, probably Mr Sky trying to tell me that I need to upgrade to something faster (more expensive). I tried to ring earlier but, as they were experiencing an unusually busy time (yeah.....fick off. Try employing more people) I hung up after ten minutes.
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 14 February 2015, 20:54:27
Our internet conne tion is dropping out quite a bit recently, probably Mr Sky trying to tell me that I need to upgrade to something faster (more expensive). I tried to ring earlier but, as they were experiencing an unusually busy time (yeah.....fick off. Try employing more people) I hung up after ten minutes.
BT have the exact same problem. Spooky or what?.... ;)
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: TheBoy on 14 February 2015, 22:13:05
Quit your complaining... Still on copper wire around here.  ;D :-X

57ping - 1.8mbps Download - 0.37mbps upload

Primarily why I have to hot spot my phone to download anything in any kind of reasonable time scale...
If, up to 2yrs ago (so in its busiest period), I could run OOF behind a 2m down, 276k up line, along with all my other internet needs, I'm sure you could optimise your internet usage better ;)

Not when downloading stuff in the Gigabytes, As you said browsing the net normaly is fine on this connection it's just not good for demanding tasks  :y
Racking my brains trying to think of something legal to download that is gigabytes in size ;)

Nothing has really got larger since then. Actually, quite the opposite :)


I can't talk, though, I've got a problem here (that I don't fully understand) that means I'm downloading between 6 and 9Gb a day on the Zen line when we're not even here :o.  No idea what the BT line is doing, as I don't get RADIUS stats for that, but suspect its similar, as I have a feeling I have a weird routing problem between the 2 lines  :-[
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: Mr.OmegaMan on 14 February 2015, 23:46:07
Quit your complaining... Still on copper wire around here.  ;D :-X

57ping - 1.8mbps Download - 0.37mbps upload

Primarily why I have to hot spot my phone to download anything in any kind of reasonable time scale...
If, up to 2yrs ago (so in its busiest period), I could run OOF behind a 2m down, 276k up line, along with all my other internet needs, I'm sure you could optimise your internet usage better ;)

Not when downloading stuff in the Gigabytes, As you said browsing the net normaly is fine on this connection it's just not good for demanding tasks  :y
Racking my brains trying to think of something legal to download that is gigabytes in size ;)

Suppose the term (streaming) is what i should have used, Watching Netflix/Amazon Prime/YouTube etc... That is if you want to watch in decent HD quality is simply impossible on slow net such as mine on BT...

I do however download/upload large files now and again whether they are updates for various devices, upload pictures / videos to the "Cloud" or anything else etc...

But thankfully i can use my phone as a hot spot reaching near 20mbps download - 3/5mbps upload, Have been for years without issue.  :y
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: aaronjb on 15 February 2015, 00:28:11
Racking my brains trying to think of something legal to download that is gigabytes in size ;)

OS X 10.10, ~6Gb download (which I did four times yesterday as the corporate rowlocks on the laptop is breaking the upgrade for some reason)
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: b4ndit on 15 February 2015, 11:12:55
down load 37 upload 9 not to bad :)
Fixed line FTTC? Sounds close to a 38/10 service :y
:y :y
Title: Re: Broadband speed.
Post by: TheBoy on 15 February 2015, 16:16:22
Racking my brains trying to think of something legal to download that is gigabytes in size ;)

OS X 10.10, ~6Gb download (which I did four times yesterday as the corporate rowlocks on the laptop is breaking the upgrade for some reason)
Yeah, a few years ago, the usual excuse for raping the broadband lines was "downloading Linux distros".

But everyone knows that reality is p2p and nntp ;D

Only quite recently has legit video streaming traffic outnumbered copyright-breaking traffic.