Fast speeds at last

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just wanted to share my massive speed increase ,, previously on 4mbps download and 0.9mbps upload
now with talktalk fibre the results are as follows
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average steam download speed is 9mbps ... itsa such a shock when you were currently on adsl ( and bad adsl at that )
 
You will now be tempted to download the entire Internet ... happens to everyone the first time they get a fast connection. :)

It does change your usage, I went from downloading 100GB/month under ADSL to 300GB/month, typically, under VDSL - sometimes much, much, more.
 
I'm feeling like I can breathe again too.

For ~10 years the slowest connection I was on was 20mbit... with things like uni halls at 100/100 and then virgin media from 50->60->120->150... then moved to Switzerland and had 150/10 connection for the first year and a half.

Then we decided it would be nice to be a bit more out in the country in a house instead of an apartment.

The downside... it came with a 5/1 connection.

Good... I thought... it'll get so frustrating I'll spend less time on the computer and more time outside doing things.

Well... that didn't work and it annoyed the heck out of me...

So we had this installed yesterday :D

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philip2009 said:
You will now be tempted to download the entire Internet ... happens to everyone the first time they get a fast connection. :)

It does change your usage, I went from downloading 100GB/month under ADSL to 300GB/month, typically, under VDSL - sometimes much, much, more.
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I've done about a TB already! lol :D
 
Lucky beggar...
We're still on 0.7Mbps download out here in Bumblescum. Our high speed Infinity is still on the "will be available within 6-9 months" list it's been on for about 5 years, now.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Lucky beggar...
We're still on 0.7Mbps download out here in Bumblescum. Our high speed Infinity is still on the "will be available within 6-9 months" list it's been on for about 5 years, now.
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It's OK. I've only been waiting 17 years.

I remember the days in college at lunchtime, those playing Quake who had NTL/Blueyonder at home telling me their wonderful pings and wishing I could get that. As they were passing all the floppy disks about loading each part of Quake.
 
its interesting that places you would expect to find super fast fibre broadband you dont .. for example inner city ( london,birmingham,manchester) .. however in the last month ive discovered these area,s are starved of both adsl and fibre ... adsl speeds are dire with some getting just 1.5mbps ... and 200kbps upload
another option that does not require any cables,fibre optic is "sattelite" broadband .. this has 20mbps download and upload and the connection is pretty good .. however the cost is high ... around £35 for a basic package and a cap of 20gb ... but if enough people take this type of connection up then i suppose the price would drop ... oh yes and theres a £150 installation fee ( due to the dish being fitted and the engineer getting the dish aligned )
 
brianthesnail said:
its interesting that places you would expect to find super fast fibre broadband you dont .. for example inner city ( london,birmingham,manchester) .. however in the last month ive discovered these area,s are starved of both adsl and fibre ... adsl speeds are dire with some getting just 1.5mbps ... and 200kbps upload
another option that does not require any cables,fibre optic is "sattelite" broadband .. this has 20mbps download and upload and the connection is pretty good .. however the cost is high ... around £35 for a basic package and a cap of 20gb ... but if enough people take this type of connection up then i suppose the price would drop ... oh yes and theres a £150 installation fee ( due to the dish being fitted and the engineer getting the dish aligned )
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V F said:
20GB cap, god! You could use that in a day.
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Satellite is not the best option... I would find it hard to call 1000ms (ie, 1 full second) pings "pretty good".

That's dire... latency can have a massive effect on your general browsing.
 
Dempsey22 said:
Running out of space on 4TB HDDs becomes extremely easy when on those speeds !
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Hehehe... I could even do it on a slower connection!

I have:

4x6TB Raid 5
4x4TB Raid 5
4x4TB Raid 5
4x4TB Raid 5
8x3TB Raid 5
2x4TB Raid 0
2x4TB External JBOD

Plus a few other random drives... about 85TB usable space and about 25 of it is free at the moment... but that's only because I bought 6x 4TB drives quite recently :)
 
yes dempsey ... i redownloaded wolfenstein the old blood ( 35gb ) from steam .. took around 14 minutes .. thats insane but as you stated i will shortly need to replace my small 1tb storage drive with 2 x 4tb drives ...
actual browsing is no different with fibre .. its the downloads that make it worthwhile ...
however BT openreach need to get these area,s fibre enabled .. if they have to bring in more cabinets then so be it .. a 0.7mbps connection is unacceptable in 2016 and they should look into this further
 
Feel free to enlighten me but it feels like the UK is years behind on consumer internet.

I can talk to people in mainland europe and the US with considerably faster connections ESPECIALLY the upload speeds at much lower prices than what we have to pay for very inferior products.
 
I was thinking of doing some streaming but Virgin are massive douchebags about uploading, 12Mb max and if you max that for an hour or so in prime time it's slashed to less than half with their throttling system. So gaming + streaming is highly dodgy.

BT based lines do up to 20Mb and mostly they don't throttle you but these are the most expensive packages and still are small beans by speed in comparison to other relevant countries.
 
Depends on where you are, but I know that in France - if you get FTTP, then you can have unlimited symetrical gigabit for not much more than £20/month.

I'm not sure what the backbone / contention ratio is like though as I didn't live in a city with that.
 
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