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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #15 on: 13 February 2015, 12:19:50 »
Quote from: Doctor Opti on 12 February 2015, 18:45:20
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.
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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #16 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.  >:( 
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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #17 on: 13 February 2015, 14:44:45 »
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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #18 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.

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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #19 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...
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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #20 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





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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #21 on: 14 February 2015, 09:37:16 »
Quote from: b4ndit on 12 February 2015, 19:35:33
down load 37 upload 9 not to bad :)
Fixed line FTTC? Sounds close to a 38/10 service :y
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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #22 on: 14 February 2015, 09:40:30 »
Quote from: 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...
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 ;)
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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #23 on: 14 February 2015, 17:57:40 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 14 February 2015, 09:40:30
Quote from: 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...
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
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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #24 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.
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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #25 on: 14 February 2015, 20:54:27 »
Quote from: STMO 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.
BT have the exact same problem. Spooky or what?.... ;)
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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #26 on: 14 February 2015, 22:13:05 »
Quote from: Mr.OmegaMan on 14 February 2015, 17:57:40
Quote from: TheBoy on 14 February 2015, 09:40:30
Quote from: 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...
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  :-[
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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #27 on: 14 February 2015, 23:46:07 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 14 February 2015, 22:13:05
Quote from: Mr.OmegaMan on 14 February 2015, 17:57:40
Quote from: TheBoy on 14 February 2015, 09:40:30
Quote from: 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...
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
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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #28 on: 15 February 2015, 00:28:11 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 14 February 2015, 22:13:05
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)
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Re: Broadband speed.
« Reply #29 on: 15 February 2015, 11:12:55 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 14 February 2015, 09:37:16
Quote from: b4ndit on 12 February 2015, 19:35:33
down load 37 upload 9 not to bad :)
Fixed line FTTC? Sounds close to a 38/10 service :y
:y :y
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