Author Topic: Your internet BB speed ? (Read 124317 times)

TimC · « **Reply #425 on:** 03 February, 2014, 07:18:30 pm »

Quote from: Bledlow on 03 February, 2014, 02:23:11 pm

My nearest BT fibre is a few hundred metres away. BT says it can deliver 30-42 meg here, & 6-8 meg upload.

Virgin is currently delivering 'up to' 30 (in practice at least 30, e.g. 33 just now), or 60 if you pay more, & promising to uprate 30 to 50 later this year. Upload is much slower than BT promises, though, only 2 meg.

I might burrow a connection to your place. I'd only take 5% of your bandwidth; you'll never notice. I'll get a 500% increase.

nuovo_record · « **Reply #426 on:** 03 February, 2014, 10:38:08 pm »

32.99mb for a 30mb connection.....not bad

hellymedic · « **Reply #427 on:** 06 February, 2014, 06:11:25 pm »

Tory MP takes action to improve BB in London suburbia.
http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/topstories/10992217.BT_pledges_broadband_improvement_in_Chipping_Barnet/?ref=rss

geraldc · « **Reply #428 on:** 19 February, 2014, 04:15:25 pm »

Three finally turned on my 4G on my phone.

It's unlimited too. I'm going to abuse the hell out of that. Hello overnight back ups of everything...

thing1 · « **Reply #429 on:** 22 February, 2014, 12:34:30 am »

Quote from: pcolbeck on 06 July, 2011, 11:31:09 am

Interesting that its asymmetry thing1. Perhaps some traffic shaping on the switch access ports.

Over in the valley, (and moreover, 3 years on) things seem rather more symmetric

nuovo_record · « **Reply #430 on:** 22 February, 2014, 07:49:44 pm »

and apparently virgin are increasing the basic speed from 30mb to 50mb......

TimC · « **Reply #431 on:** 22 February, 2014, 10:08:58 pm »

And BT are reducing theirs from 0.9 mbs to 0.2 mbs. At least where I live.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #432 on:** 24 February, 2014, 04:37:00 pm »

Averaging 3.5Mbs today which is very good for this location. Apparently we can get FTTC from the end of the month which will be marvellous as they are predicting 80Mbs.

Canardly · « **Reply #433 on:** 06 March, 2014, 08:14:18 pm »

I have a 100 meg but am going to change down as it is all getting a bit spendy.

TimC · « **Reply #434 on:** 08 March, 2014, 07:34:36 pm »

O2 at the corner of my sofa where I can get 3G:

BT couldn't even load the speedtest page.

hellymedic · « **Reply #435 on:** 08 March, 2014, 07:57:41 pm »

Looks good but test showed true shonkiness and took ages.
Maybe the string's too dry...

2 minutes later...

Test seems to stall all the time.

Then changed the server and had a much steadier test.

Bledlow · « **Reply #436 on:** 08 March, 2014, 10:09:41 pm »

Virgin's download speeds are OK, but uploads are still comparatively shite.

WE pay for 30 meg (supposed to increase to 50 later in the year), & it's usually at least the advertised speed.

Bledlow · « **Reply #437 on:** 08 March, 2014, 10:13:42 pm »

Quote from: TimC on 22 February, 2014, 10:08:58 pm

And BT are reducing theirs from 0.9 mbs to 0.2 mbs. At least where I live.

Time to move? But I hear that low BB speeds now affect the price of your house.

TimC · « **Reply #438 on:** 08 March, 2014, 10:16:41 pm »

I probably will be moving in the next few months anyway. In the meantime, I'm putting as much pressure on BT as I can - in concert with others in the village.

Bledlow · « **Reply #439 on:** 27 March, 2014, 05:03:21 pm »

Well, it's gone up. Upload speed is still nothing to write home about, though.

Dunno why it wants to use a server in Brum. A bit further away than usual.

Canardly · « **Reply #440 on:** 27 March, 2014, 06:04:27 pm »

TimC · « **Reply #441 on:** 02 May, 2014, 12:53:09 pm »

A new low:

Ping: 1545ms
Download: 0.05mbs
Upload: 0.03mbs

Too slow to actually get the image!

PaulF · « **Reply #442 on:** 02 May, 2014, 02:54:51 pm »

With Sky

Ping 45ms
Download 2.83Mb/s
Upload 0.67Mb/s

JennyB · « **Reply #443 on:** 02 May, 2014, 03:57:29 pm »

Panoramix · « **Reply #444 on:** 07 May, 2014, 04:30:27 am »

Asterix, the former Gaul. · « **Reply #445 on:** 07 May, 2014, 08:09:26 am »

Slower than 72% of France

TimC · « **Reply #446 on:** 07 May, 2014, 09:21:35 am »

And 45 times the speed of my connection in UK!

Thor · « **Reply #447 on:** 07 June, 2014, 01:27:29 pm »

Until FTTC arrived, I was getting 2Mb or so on a good day, so I sympathise with people like TimC .

OTOH, I am contemplating a move to somewhere where I might not get even 2Mb. It is a major deterrent.

Ham · « **Reply #448 on:** 18 June, 2014, 07:53:33 am »

Ooo look they've upped it again

Am I annoying those of you on 500Kb/s?

TimC · « **Reply #449 on:** 18 June, 2014, 10:50:19 am »

Quote from: Thor on 07 June, 2014, 01:27:29 pm

Until FTTC arrived, I was getting 2Mb or so on a good day, so I sympathise with people like TimC .

OTOH, I am contemplating a move to somewhere where I might not get even 2Mb. It is a major deterrent.

I have never got anywhere near 2mb! The maximum I can get these days is 0.7mb. Much of the time it's considerably less than that.