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
Some countries have 1Gbps internet at competitive prices. By this contrast no internet connection in the UK is ever going to be "enough" for most of us :p

Having said that, I'm happy with what £37.99 a month is getting me in terms of download. 19.1MB/s means a full 1080P quality film can be downloaded in the time it takes to go and make a tea and some crumpets.

What does annoy me is the upload speed. Whether you're on FTTC or cable the upload rate is nowhere near the download rate. Someone in another thread recently said their mate in some Euro country I forgot the name of was paying £15 a month for 250Mbit up AND down... Are you seeing this Virgin Media? :/
 
I recently got upgraded from 8meg to 16meg for free by bt as fibre got delayed here so they did something to change everyone who got Adsl to adsl 2 or something I dno, but I woke up with a email saying it's been upgraded at no extra cost, I actually get 19 meg tho now and before I got around 6 meg, speed differemce first week or so I was like .. :D :D big grin when downloading, but now im back like well.. Can't wait for fiber, 5 months to wait tho.

Ideally now I know the speed at 19 meg, I'd like around 80 meg, but if 150 was possible I would pay a extra tenner a month for it oh yes!. Also I can't wait for better uploads I only get 1meg up, is like etleast 10 meg up
 
I noticed in a thread about internet speeds on another forum that a lot of people in Europe seem to get much higher upload speeds than us. Often an upload speed matching the download speed. How come ours are so slow?

Not that it really matters to me, but I could see that hindering people that upload a lot to youtube etc.
 
150/12,Virgin.

The cab is right around the corner from me.

I have to admit,Virgin internet is really good..very reliable but what lets them down is there pricing and customer service who often don't have a bloody clue and are either not based in UK or if they are you cant understand a word they are saying due to low volume on the phone combined with dodgy accent. :D
 
5/0.3 on BT. Dunno about the cable, whatever they could be bothered to drag up 2 miles of mountainside.

And honestly it is fast enough for me, most games download overnight or by the time I am home from work. I can also watch youtube at 720p which is fine on my tablet.

The big issue is there are times when I am sharing said connection with 20+ people who are trying to watch Netflix and iplayer and uploading to Facebook at the same time.

I have seen pings you wouldn't believe...
 
Get around 10/0.8 but you can forget downloading anything before midnight as it resembles 2004 speeds. Also Virgins customer services are pretty poor with the exception of when we got struck by lightning which they dealt with brilliantly.
 
20/5 here, which is plenty. Could easily go up to 100/20 for another few quid, but we just don't need it. "Another few quid" would basically be doubling what we pay in the first place :p
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
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.
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Been a while since I did ISDN, would have been a pri E1 line (T1 is a US standard) though. 32 x 64kbit channels and 1 x 16kbit. They could dynamically change between voice and data if needed and were pretty cool.

ISDN i assume you mean a bri, 1 x 16kbit and 2 x 64 kbit.

Been years since I done any of this so the above could be wrong.
 
Currently got 80/20. Even if I had a dedicated 10Gbit line, I'd still upgrade if 20GBit came available for <£100. :)

/LPB
 
Malevolence said:
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'.
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That's pretty much what I get, although real world DL speeds are 2mbs tops...
20mb Sky BB (formerly o2). Does the job, I guess.

76mb Plus Net fibre getting installed beginning of Jan though :) The fastest I could find for my area (North/Central London) for some reason. Oh well, onwards and upwards.

Edit: Actually, no. This is what I get. But still, 2mbs in the real world on a good day :/

 
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5-6/0.3

I hate it. My games lag like hell when someone else uses youtube or downloads something and the upload is crap so I could never consider recording anything to youtube or so on.

However it appears my exchange will be upgraded to fibre in the next 6 months, although my house, and most of the houses in this village, are right next to the exchange and thus directly connected to it, so I don't know how they plan to connect us to fibre at all.

They better figure it out though. I want internet that isn't total crap.
 
mrk said:
Some countries have 1Gbps internet at competitive prices. By this contrast no internet connection in the UK is ever going to be "enough" for most of us :p

Having said that, I'm happy with what £37.99 a month is getting me in terms of download. 19.1MB/s means a full 1080P quality film can be downloaded in the time it takes to go and make a tea and some crumpets.

What does annoy me is the upload speed. Whether you're on FTTC or cable the upload rate is nowhere near the download rate. Someone in another thread recently said their mate in some Euro country I forgot the name of was paying £15 a month for 250Mbit up AND down... Are you seeing this Virgin Media? :/
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Back in my World of Warcraft days my Scandinavian friends were on 100mbit up and down. This was 10 years ago!!! Only now do we in the UK get something of similar speeds.

I got fibre last year and even still I am only getting 40mb down as I am quite far away from my green box. :/
 
It's fast enough, but I would like it faster. Hate waiting for things to download. I miss virgin 120mb. Now on sky which is about 17mb.

My parents who live in a small village until two months ago, got about 1mb their exchange was eventually upgrades. They now have a stable 37mb, :( stupid over subscription in city.
 
Tephnos said:
5-6/0.3

I hate it. My games lag like hell when someone else uses youtube or downloads something and the upload is crap so I could never consider recording anything to youtube or so on.

However it appears my exchange will be upgraded to fibre in the next 6 months, although my house, and most of the houses in this village, are right next to the exchange and thus directly connected to it, so I don't know how they plan to connect us to fibre at all.

They better figure it out though. I want internet that isn't total crap.
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Are you, me?
 
No. 4Mb/s is far too slow in a city in this day and age. Especially as I surf mostly western sites and connect to the office in UK.

My new apartment should have 20mbps when it's finished. Apparently that's the fastest we can get out here.
 
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Saw the government sponsored ad for 'super fast' broadband but noted that the speed of this 'super fast' broadband was not mentioned.

Am I right in thinking that 'super fast' to the government is a lot slower than what the rest of us would term 'super fast?'
 
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