Google Offices Internet speeds will make you jealous!

timmy85 · 31 Mar 2011 at 23:00

Whilst I'm stuck here on my 1.7mbps connection and some of you jammy beggers are on BT's Infinity or VM 100 meg, this should bring even a tear to your eyes.

These were taking from a post made by a google employee during a chat with members of the public I believe....... it can be found here-

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gdyun/iama_we_are_three_members_of_the_google_chrome/

I'm gonna go and cry myself to sleep now whilst my overnight steam download of shogun 2 runs!

:mad:

asim18 · 31 Mar 2011 at 23:05

Meh. Greenwich uni gave me 800Mb/s on speedtest. They had a gigabit line.

benftl · 1 Apr 2011 at 00:03

To be completely honest with you, I find it hard to get jealous over broadband speed these days. I'm 'only' on 20mb but it's perfectly adequate for my needs, any large downloads I'll schedule for later, sure I'd like 50mb or 100mb but I never feel that much envy for them etc.

I think once you cross the 10mb barrier then higher speeds aren't so amazing any more.

MikeHunt79 · 1 Apr 2011 at 00:10

benftl said:
To be completely honest with you, I find it hard to get jealous over broadband speed these days. I'm 'only' on 20mb but it's perfectly adequate for my needs, any large downloads I'll schedule for later, sure I'd like 50mb or 100mb but I never feel that much envy for them etc.

I think once you cross the 10mb barrier then higher speeds aren't so amazing any more.

I agree, unless you really need megafast speeds for things like video uploading when I'm happy with my internet speed really.

snowdog · 1 Apr 2011 at 00:12

I'm upgrading to 120 mbit down 10 mbit up in April when my adsl contract ends, can't wait

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timmy85 · 1 Apr 2011 at 00:17

I'd give my left nut for 10 meg!

Cooper · 1 Apr 2011 at 00:19

timmy85 said:
I'd give my left nut for 10 meg!

I'd eat your left nut for 5meg!

cymatty · 1 Apr 2011 at 00:20

The ping is pretty impressive.

In 10 years we will look back an say pft, so what.

Reficx · 1 Apr 2011 at 00:54

Meh. I'd be happy with 5mb tbh.

Mythr1l · 1 Apr 2011 at 00:59

Im on virgin 30mb and i'd -kill- for your 1.7mb

paradigm · 1 Apr 2011 at 08:18

Mythr1l said:
Im on virgin 30mb and i'd -kill- for your 1.7mb

Erm?

DJMK4 · 1 Apr 2011 at 08:24

I am quite happy with my BE Unlimited connection tbh, 19Mb down, 1.4Mb up. - £12 a month after a few discounts for being a loyal customer

mrk · 1 Apr 2011 at 09:55

Imagine the pornsibilities!

Jabbs · 1 Apr 2011 at 10:15

50mb is enough for me I won't upgrade to 100, specially as I pay 20mb prices for it.

mrk · 1 Apr 2011 at 10:21

How did you get 20Mb prices? I'm on 30Mb and am paying 20Mb price, well minus £1.50 so £28.50.

Deleted member 77746 · 1 Apr 2011 at 10:43

Jel because of faster speeds, grow some balls.

benftl · 1 Apr 2011 at 10:43

Khaaan! said:
Imagine the pornsibilities!

bigredshark · 1 Apr 2011 at 11:52

IF I could be bothered to plug in a ethernet cable I'd have a connection limited by my laptop's network card, our transit links are 40Gbit here...but to be honest wireless does me just fine though. Can't see the need for better than 60Mbps...

Yas786 · 1 Apr 2011 at 11:57

DJMK4 said:
I am quite happy with my BE Unlimited connection tbh, 19Mb down, 1.4Mb up. - £12 a month

Same here...cant complain with my BE connection...i get about 18mb down and 1.2mb up...all for about £15 a month...stonking value and ive yet to see my connecttion be throttled.

King Damager · 1 Apr 2011 at 12:19

Uni get 1GB/s, but they limit us to 2mb/s...

It's a complete joke -.-

How am I supposed to stream BBC HD -.-

Although, because they've limited it, it is a solid 2mb/s, which I guess is nice, knowing you always have 2mb/s... but yeah still annoying....

kd