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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 29 February 2016, 12:05:50
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This morning.
Download...6.95 MBPS.
Upload.......0.38 MBPS
We have just switched to BT Infinity for an extra £5 each month. This service starts tomorrow.
What figures should I now expect?
Will I notice the difference?
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Yes, you'll notice it.
I'm with Sky but switched to fibre...
Used to get around 2 down, 0.3 up
Now get around 32 down and 9 up
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Infinity 1 or 2?
infinity 1 should be 35ish down, 7-9 up
or infinity 2, 50-70 down, 15-19 up ISH
Wont bother with the realms of infinity 3 ;D
After installation, dont piss about rebooting it etc, just let it sync and train, leave it alone! (apart from actually using it)
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Infinity 1 or 2?
infinity 1 should be 35ish down, 7-9 up
or infinity 2, 50-70 down, 15-19 up ISH
Wont bother with the realms of infinity 3 ;D
After installation, dont piss about rebooting it etc, just let it sync and train, leave it alone! (apart from actually using it)
I think Infinity 1 is the best we can manage, Mr Jimbob.
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To Infinity and beyond. ;D ;D
I often think back to the early days of Internet. I was working for a cable company and had a business customer who kept pestering me to become a cable modem beta customer. The marketing guy told me no. He couldn't see the business case for 600k ! The company is still thriving in the Virtual Reality field.
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Depends how far you are from your cabinet, and the quality/state of the copper.
I'm about 250-300m from mine, get approx. 60Mb down, 17Mb up, similar on both lines (both 78/19 service from different providers)
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Im with Virgin Media and get avg 162 down and 12 up :) will be changing to the superfast broadband where that should be around 200+ down and probably 15 ish up....
I was with Sky but cancelled as the demand when all my boys are online (PS3s and laptops etc...) the ADSL system couldn't cope, not even the fibre broadband would cut-it either...
BTW the fibre broadband isnt actually fibre broadband, its copper wire from the exchange box.... they like to mislead people in the sales tactic bullshit...
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Was 6.95(D)...........0.38 (U)
Now.....35.1 Download.........6.7 Upload.
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To Infinity and beyond. ;D ;D
I often think back to the early days of Internet. I was working for a cable company and had a business customer who kept pestering me to become a cable modem beta customer. The marketing guy told me no. He couldn't see the business case for 600k ! The company is still thriving in the Virtual Reality field.
I remember having ISDN 2 in the house, which was almost unheard of from a domestic point of view. ::)
Ist line was 64K speed via a 0800 BT freephone number, but if you was feeling brave and didn't wont to use phone for the rest of the day, you could double up and use the 2nd line for another 64K (128K in Total) but you would then start paying 10p a minute for the privilege. Qtr'ly Line Rental charges weren't cheap either. :o
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To Infinity and beyond. ;D ;D
I often think back to the early days of Internet. I was working for a cable company and had a business customer who kept pestering me to become a cable modem beta customer. The marketing guy told me no. He couldn't see the business case for 600k ! The company is still thriving in the Virtual Reality field.
I remember having ISDN 2 in the house, which was almost unheard of from a domestic point of view. ::)
Ist line was 64K speed via a 0800 BT freephone number, but if you was feeling brave and didn't wont to use phone for the rest of the day, you could double up and use the 2nd line for another 64K (128K in Total) but you would then start paying 10p a minute for the privilege. Qtr'ly Line Rental charges weren't cheap either. :o
Is that what they classed as shotgun technology.
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To Infinity and beyond. ;D ;D
I often think back to the early days of Internet. I was working for a cable company and had a business customer who kept pestering me to become a cable modem beta customer. The marketing guy told me no. He couldn't see the business case for 600k ! The company is still thriving in the Virtual Reality field.
I remember having ISDN 2 in the house, which was almost unheard of from a domestic point of view. ::)
Ist line was 64K speed via a 0800 BT freephone number, but if you was feeling brave and didn't wont to use phone for the rest of the day, you could double up and use the 2nd line for another 64K (128K in Total) but you would then start paying 10p a minute for the privilege. Qtr'ly Line Rental charges weren't cheap either. :o
Is that what they classed as shotgun technology.
<shudder!> It's easy to forget how far we've come since then.
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To Infinity and beyond. ;D ;D
I often think back to the early days of Internet. I was working for a cable company and had a business customer who kept pestering me to become a cable modem beta customer. The marketing guy told me no. He couldn't see the business case for 600k ! The company is still thriving in the Virtual Reality field.
I remember having ISDN 2 in the house, which was almost unheard of from a domestic point of view. ::)
Ist line was 64K speed via a 0800 BT freephone number, but if you was feeling brave and didn't wont to use phone for the rest of the day, you could double up and use the 2nd line for another 64K (128K in Total) but you would then start paying 10p a minute for the privilege. Qtr'ly Line Rental charges weren't cheap either. :o
Is that what they classed as shotgun technology.
<shudder!> It's easy to forget how far we've come since then.
I can remember when I had a 9.6k analogue moden....then 14.4k.....next 56k modem....and that was quick ::) ;D
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BTW the fibre broadband isnt actually fibre broadband, its copper wire from the exchange box.... they like to mislead people in the sales tactic bullshit...
Not quite. Its copper from the cabinet. Hence its name FTTC.
VM's headline figures are usually good, but reality is often less, as its not much cop at anything other than browsing/email. Not great for gaming or VPN, and useless for hosting :'(
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I can remember when I had a 9.6k analogue moden....then 14.4k.....next 56k modem....and that was quick ::) ;D
I bet I still have my genuine Hayes 2400 modem...
ISDN and HH were the mutts nutts do to useable upload, and instant connection... ...but poor compared to the 512kb ADSL service I replaced it with
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I've just swopped to the 38mbps service with Plusnet, 32 down and 1.84 Up. Is the latter too slow? :-\
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I've just swopped to the 38mbps service with Plusnet, 32 down and 1.84 Up. Is the latter too slow? :-\
Depends, as Openreach offer 2 40Mb services, one with a 9Mb upload, one with a 2Mb upload.
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Let me re-phrase that. Will those speeds affect, for example, on demand TV? :-\
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I've just swopped to the 38mbps service with Plusnet, 32 down and 1.84 Up. Is the latter too slow? :-\
On Demand TV will work fine with that.
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Let me re-phrase that. Will those speeds affect, for example, on demand TV? :-\
It will only impact where you push data towards the internet. So storage, VPN, email (though does it matter if a large email is sluggish to send?), gaming etc.
For "normal" use - browsing, a bit of music and video streaming etc, it'll be fine :y
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Let me re-phrase that. Will those speeds affect, for example, on demand TV? :-\
It will only impact where you push data towards the internet. So storage, VPN, email (though does it matter if a large email is sluggish to send?), gaming etc.
For "normal" use - browsing, a bit of music and video streaming etc, it'll be fine :y
But only just given that you need a ~23:1 bandwidth ratio just to accommodate the ACK packets that need to be returned if you are saturating the downstream.. which is, I presume, why 2Mbit was chosen..
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I've just swopped to the 38mbps service with Plusnet, 32 down and 1.84 Up. Is the latter too slow? :-\
I've just checked mine........34.64 and 7.69.
I would say that is too slow.......but what do I know.
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I've just swopped to the 38mbps service with Plusnet, 32 down and 1.84 Up. Is the latter too slow? :-\
I've just checked mine........34.64 and 7.69
I would say that is too slow.......but what do I know.
I would say that's quite good, whenever I`ve checked my speeds with Virgin Media the upload speed is roughly 10% of the download speed.
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Let me re-phrase that. Will those speeds affect, for example, on demand TV? :-\
It will only impact where you push data towards the internet. So storage, VPN, email (though does it matter if a large email is sluggish to send?), gaming etc.
For "normal" use - browsing, a bit of music and video streaming etc, it'll be fine :y
Thanks for that, I ocsnly look at a utube clip, and also the odd iPlayer programme on TV, then just e mails and OOF. :y
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I get about 5 down and 1 up, that's over wifi. Seems quick enough to me and keeps up with sky go on my iPad easily, with others on the net too.
Hobsons choice here anyway.