Life with or without fast broadband

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Fast broadband you say?

B@
 
I was told I'd only get 1meg when I moved house, currently get 7meg and it's perfectly OK. Dont' rely on what they say - BT are constantly rolling out new products and a nicer place to stay is worth far, far more than broadband!
 
I echo those who said that 2 Mbit is fine. My first experience of internet access was in my student digs running off the uni's T1 connection (1.5 Mbit) in 1999. Surprised I was to go back home, buy a 56k modem for the first time and find that it was only a fraction of the speed. So therefore, a T1 at 1.5 Mbit became my benchmark connection. Thankfully I gave up the modem and went NTL on 720 kbit in 2002. Then 2 years later, they upped it to the magical 1.5 Mbit figure for the same price. I'm now on 10 Mbit but the main thing is that I hit the 1.5.
 
With a low speed connection make sure you pay extra for a decent provider such as Zen, if you have slow speed then congestion in evenings it will be a lot worse.
 
OzyOly said:
Congestion is crazy on ADSL, gets to 18:00 and I can't stream YouTube anymore. :(
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I am un-contended on a 20MBit connection and half the time YouTube wont stream anyway. Some 1080p videos come through at a solid 8,000Kb/sec while some 360p will sit buffering for 10 minutes :p

2Mbit is hardly bad, you can stream TV with that, and just have to leave it buffer a little for a while if you want to stream HD content.
 
So you can't download HD and will maybe have to wait for a few things to load but it will still be fine. You can't have had more than 2mb for longer than a couple of years anyway.

I am a bigger geek than you and I managed on 1mb for a year. Was fine.
 
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