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
Voted 'Yes but I want it faster damn it!' - my download is fine, Infinity 2 should be 72 megs, but I get about 37 (fine with me), but the upload sucks *** - 1.5 megs!

I'd love it if the upload was better, even 5 megs would do I think, it would just cut down waiting times when uploading.
 
I was amazed at the 4G network in La Plagne this weekend.

I managed to download a full album off Amazon music player in under 20 seconds, the same album took 7 minutes at home!
 
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I'm on 80/20 infinity, but get closer to 50/15. Would love FTTP, just to get the fastest connection I could afford.
 
I like my high download from Virgin, 152mb although I actually get higher than that... But, their upload is just so poor, why just why can they not make it higher? I get over double their upload speed on my mobile phone!
 
When I voted in the poll I was under o2 internet (Now Sky) ADSL2+. My speeds was just reaching 1mb a sec on a good day I would get 1.2mb. This was just not meeting my needs. Having Sky HD+, Netflix, Phones, Tablets and at least 2 x computers. Games are getting bigger from 40 to 60gig which in all depends on there complexity compared to Borderlands Pre-Squeal which is 9.7gig and other games such as. Having to download larger games such as Battlefield 4, including all extension packs. It meant I would have to leave the PC on at least 24 hours just to download one and cost more in using the electricity.

I now moved from Sky to Virgin media (100mb line). Due to that fact that BT are lazy rolling out there fibre lines to exchange only lines and they have put these on hold. As I did email BT Openreach about these. Then was told they put some London Exchange Only lines on hold for upgrades. If BT did sort out the exchange only lines, I would have upgraded to Sky Fibre. However, I am happy with VM 100mb line. It does everything I need/do with no problems.



I do wish that VM would up there, upload speeds. Does comes in handy for streaming over Stream streaming, Twitch & uploading Youtube videos.
 
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My standing joke used to be (around 6 or more years ago) that we wouldn't see Superfast Broadband in my lifetime.

I retire next year and I'm no longer laughing. :eek:

Still on ADSL Max with no sign of an upgrade, either in this life or the next. So much for government promises. :rolleyes:
 
19.01Mbps down, 0.92Mbps up.

To be honest, this is actually fine with me. If I ever need to download anything major, like steam games, I'll do this when I'm at work.
 
Kuros said:
19.01Mbps down, 0.92Mbps up.

To be honest, this is actually fine with me. If I ever need to download anything major, like steam games, I'll do this when I'm at work.
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Same boat as me. I could order fibre, but I'm happy with my speed. I've got the 12 months free with plus net deal at the moment. I'll look into fibre again once the 12 months is up.

More upload would be nice, but I don't NEED it
 
Not any more, around 5Mbps down now. Moved flat and no longer have fibre, back onto adsl, no option of adsl2 either. Waiting for the cabinet to be upgraded.
Forgot how slow this is, have to schedule game updates etc now.
 
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Not any more, around 5Mbps down now. Moved flat and no longer have fibre, back onto adsl, no option of adsl2 either. Waiting for the cabinet to be upgraded.
Forgot how slow this is, have to schedule game updates etc now.
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Same as myself. I was looking at an article only the other day regarding Superfast Broadband and the job still left to do is immense.

Whilst BT and other ISPs may be boasting about the amount of people now covered, the geographical area not covered is greater than what's been achieved to date.

We are talking about millions of people still unable to access Superfast services. This is something you won't hear either the ISP's or the government mention. We are the dirty little secret.
 
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virgin 100mb living alone so no kids or missus hogging the bandwidth so Ive got plenty for what I need, would like better upload though
 
60 down 18 up, Honestly its the upstream that does it for me. I have plex and several servers at my house so i'd be willing to go down to half the download if it ment keeping decent upload speeds
 
3 down .80 up :(

On a good day
Does it meet my needs?Definitely not
Exchange was fibred 2 years ago but out cabinet is `under revue`,has been for about a year
and we are about 2 miles from said cabinet so if it is ever upgraded we would be lucky to get 15 down :(
 
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