Poll: What speed connection do you use?

What speed internet connection do you have?

  • Dial up

  • Less than 1Mbps

  • 1Mbps or above but less than 2Mbps

  • 2Mbps or above but less than 4Mbps

  • 4Mbps or above but less than 8Mbps

  • 8Mbps or above but less than 50mbit

  • 50Mbit - 100Mbit

  • 200Mbit - 330Mbit

  • 330Mbit - 500Mbit

  • 500Mbit - 1Gbit

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Evosparki said:
It seems strange, to think that back in year 1999-2001? when we had 56k dial up, parts of the Netherlands had 128k ISDN.
Then a year or two later when 512k started rolling out here, Sweden had 10Mb which seemed like a Godly speed. Then In year 2004-5 I remember reading that somewhere like Japan and/or South Korea cities had 1Gb - when all we had was maybe 20Mb.
Now 10-12 years later only a handful of households have 1Gb. Yet its ironic that I read in the news today how ISP's are striving so hard to try deploy 1Gb FTTP to millions of homes. Yep - should've just invested into expensive FTTP back in the days of early xDSL tech instead of scrapping now-old ADSL broadband.

Listen to the workmen of what they feel they can do, and not what investors say - aka privatisation - making the workers poorer and upper management & investors richer.
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It is shocking really. Back in my wow days circa 05/06 a lot of my Swedish friends were getting 50mbit speeds. Over a decade later and I still cannot get that. Would at least be nice if you could purchase fttp but meh.
 
I'm not too fussed about internet speed like i was before.

Within my gaming community we have more servers than we even need, and multiple gigabit connections

Somehow some dodgy people crash the server, which is why my currently policy for all competitive games is to use two TS3 servers at the same time. You can have a Mic active on only one, but you can enable sound from multiple, so all i have to do is to minimize and enable mic on the other server, or whoever is the FC at the time. It happens like 30% of the time if you are wondering.

right now i have 8MB/s down and 2MB/s up,
 
Clov!s said:
Looking back to 2006, it’s crazy to think people were getting a full internet package of 8Mb/s.
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Thats what we had until last xmas. In fact we got 1Mb on the up to 8Mb package. Disgusting speeds for the 5th richest economy.
 
Would be interesting to see how many people get 80mbit/s and above.

That is now the benchmark these days.

Logsi said:
330mbps/30mbps FTTP at home. Will be moving soon and get only get a paltry 80/20... :eek:
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Doubt you will really notice the difference.

I have 100/100 on hyperoptic and if I'm honest its not revolutionary over a good 20/1 adsl connection.

Youtube uses 4K now and Amazon where content is available. That's about it. Yes things download faster but with always on PCs you barely notice it. After my introductory offer goes I'll probably move back down to 30/1.
 
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Casdawer said:
I get 38Mbps at home at the moment but will be getting 200MB Virgin Cable on the 16th November! :D
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How much are you paying on your 200MB plan? Is that internet-only?

I'm was the £25 contract, internet-only but it has gone up steadily every year and I now pay £35 (last couple of years were pretty big £2 hikes).

Is Virgin the only cable provider in the UK? (specifically Staffordshire)

P.S. No landline in my house, so needs to be cable.
 
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