Poll: Does your broadband speed meet your needs?

Does your broadband speed meet your needs?

  • Yes

    Votes: 314 39.3%

  • No

    Votes: 194 24.3%

  • Yes but I want it faster damn it!

    Votes: 291 36.4%
  • Total voters
    799
Virgin 20/1

Download speeds are perfectly fine for my needs,however I constantly feel I need a far faster upload.

My NAS runs a backup via rysnc to a remote server which takes an age to run, mostly noticed when I had 16GB of footage from an experience day I did, ended up creating a multipart rar with the files split into 50mb chunks
 
correct me if im mistaken.. but for general browsing usage, low Ping > DL speed?
i normally get 5-15 ping on speedtest, whereas ive seen people with much faster connections getting a much bigger Ping
 
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Pretty much yeah, 100mb cable internet is in practice faster than Wi-Fi for all the various computers, tablets and phones around the house and the file server/HTPC which outputs to the TV is hardwired via gigabit ethernet.
 
I'm on Plusnet fibre and I dont know the exact speed i'm getting but its much faster than I really need, I dont download, I dont game and I only stream occasionally. At the moment I believe my wifi is actually restricting the speeds I get downstairs but im not sufficiently motivated to do anything about it
 
Perfectly happy with Virgin, wouldn't mind extra upload speed but that doesn't look likely with them.

Luckily I've not had any issues with them really in terms of speed etc.
 
I'm lucky if I get 3mb out of my TalkTalk line. Streaming NowTV can be problematic, downloads are slow. It's pretty poor.
 
For web 1.0, a T1 (1.5mbit) connection was fine. My first online experience was in early 1999 at uni where we had T1 in our halls of residence. Dismayed I was when I learned that the 56k modem that I was forced to use back at my parents over the summer was only a fraction of the speed. I just never understood why people had 56k at home and why there wasn't anything better than ISDN at the time? It just wasn't fit for purpose IMO.

Thankfully in 2002, cable internet access was becoming the norm and I jumped ship to 720kbit (NTL). Then a couple of years later, we got upgraded to 1.5mbit so I was finally happy to have reached T1 speeds again.

Then web 1.0 became web 2.0, and I felt that the bi-annual speed upgrades courtesy of NTL/Virgin met my needs, except on Youtube where there they enforce traffic shaping. I get around that using a VPN though.
 
Would love a faster internet connection.

Stuck on ADSL here as BT seem to have given up on upgrading our cabinet for an FTTC connection. They have enabled most of the others in the town.

Its not as bad as some of the other people here, I get around 5mb/s down and 1 mb/s up. But with games getting larger it is getting to the point where it would be just as fast to order a physical copy of a game from Amazon and have Royal Mail deliver it than to wait for it to download.
 
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At my parents it's far faster than needed but I'm extremely happy with it, doesn't ever slow down due to congestion and the signal is always solid (With EE).

However, at my house share, They have Virgin media and I find them awful. solid download speed but a horrendous upload speed split between 4 other people. if it wasn't Fair usage policies or throttling, they found a way to gimp my joy of playing games online.
 
Stuck on ADSL with this.

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It's good enough for gaming on and downloading the files I need. It would be nice to have superfast internet, I did have Virgin Fibre booked and on all three occasions the technician turned up and refused to install it due to it 'being too much work'.
 
0.698 mb/s download
0.012 mb/s upload

Loading basic webpages is becoming even more slooooooow as video advertisements are becoming more popular.

My cabinet for the last 2 years has been showing an endless future upgrade date.
The other week it went back to under review.
I'm going to have to look into satellite or microwave now as it's just beyond a joke.
 
Can someone give me a basic internet lesson please?

Other than uploading files (backups) to Dropbox and the like, what else does the upload speed affect in general day to day internet usage?
 
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