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[TheBoy]

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.

[Shackeng]

Let me re-phrase that. Will those speeds affect, for example, on demand TV?

[zirk]

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.

[TheBoy]

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

[aaronjb]

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

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..

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

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.

[Mr Gav]

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.

[Shackeng]

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

Thanks for that, I ocsnly look at a utube clip, and also the odd iPlayer programme on TV, then just e mails and OOF.

[STEMO]

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.