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
what the hell is this "broadband" you guys are talking about? wasn't he a member on these forums?

my internet is via a 3G dongle and i'm lucky to get 2-3Mbps on a good day. most of the time it's 0.3-0.5Mbps. :D
 
I have sky fiber of the 40Gb variety. I installed an edimax outdoor extender on mine and my brothers house (approx 30meters away). We both stream netflix and use our tablets with no issues at all. Quite happy with the set up. If a lot of people did this they would save a fortune on line rental and broadband costs. Who needs a landline nowadays? It's power over ethernet so all use need is to hire/borrow and sds drill with say a 12/14mm drill bit to make a hole and feed the cable through. With the metal holders that hold the receivers the total setup cost was £130 iirc.
 
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sky fibre here roughly 35 / 8

would like more upload but find download speed fine I just pref fibre as its very reliable no disconnecting every night like normal BB
 
mine's so bad i actually look forward to getting into a town where i can tether to my mobiles H+ signal, i wet my pants when i get 4G :p
 
I'd be happier if my home Broadband was closer to 4G on my phone

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On Virgin's 100Mb, getting around 88/5. I'd happily sacrifice some of my download for upload though. Thinking of switching to BT/Sky where I can get 20 up when I move house though.
 
I'm with Sky, it's crap, total utter garbage.

I get faster download speeds using my iPhone as a hotspot than I do using my direct LAN connected home broadband!

My home broadband tops out at 310k/sec download speed, it's non fibre (they say it's not available in my area, yet EE and BT both offer it in my street!)

Come March, it's gone, which is a shame as I really like the tv service (the opposite of Virgin media who I found had superb broadband speed but dire tv)
 
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utajoker said:
yes.

On virgins up to 152mb

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but i want faster damn it!
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LOL.. You are as bad as me!

I think we are lucky if we can max out the 152Mbps connections, I rarely see any slow downs..

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I got fed up with 11-12Mbits on ADSL2 as soon as the kids got tablets and found youtube etc.. so I caved in and when Virgin started giving broadband only deals, I decided to just go for it..

Obviously, I don't actually need that much download bandwidth, but it does mean I can have everyone doing whatever they need to and we don't get the whole house slowing to a crawl! And if a download kicks off (usenet etc) then that's capped at a nice 60mbps and you don't notice it!
 
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8mb down / .5mb upload
with BT
it's not too bad for what I need.
I'm not prepared to pay for anything else though, until they can offer a package that is between fibre and normal BB for a reasonable price
 
Cruiser said:
8mb down / .5mb upload
with BT
it's not too bad for what I need.
I'm not prepared to pay for anything else though, until they can offer a package that is between fibre and normal BB for a reasonable price
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Don't expect anything reasonable from BT, they charge me £46 a month for the "service" they provide me.
 
On VDSL with 40 down / 20 up. I don't really get enough free time at home on my own these days to warrant anything faster. It's good enough, as far as I've examined, for Netflix's UHD streams with no stutter or mid-stream buffering/quality drop, and this probably contributes to most of our bandwidth consumption. I download a Steam game once in a while, but I usually pre-empt this for larger games and am doing something else or continuing with a current game while it downloads. I so very rarely find myself wanting to play a 50GB game that isn't already installed without having anything else to keep me occupied for an hour and a bit.

Saying all that, I would have got cable 100Mb (broadband only) if the first-floor apartment I moved into supported it. Unfortunately only ground-floor apartments in my area can, so the best I could get was a VDSL service :(
 
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