Would you pay £10pm for another 10 meg?

MissChief

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Sky Fibre is supposed to be coming to my exchange in September and they offer a 30 meg connection which I can get for an extra £10 per month. As I currently get 20 Meg thanks to living close to my exchange, is an extra 10 meg worth £10? Would you?
 
No I wouldn't. I've got 20/1 on my Sky LLU as well and it's just not worth the extra cash for me. If I were on 3 or 4 Mbit then it would be a different story. A 10-20ms reduction in ping might be welcome but it's not a deal winner either.
 
Well I think only you can answer this question MissChief, would the extra download speed benefit you? Do you often download files and think "Hurry up!". Also if you game the reduced ping may be of benefit to you. If you don't game then ping isn't really all that important.

Few things to consider there.
 
Increased download speed wont change your ping. Ping is mainly based on location and upload speed and whether your line is interleaved or fastpath.
 
Line is interleaved as sky don't offer fastpath. I should say that while it would be £10more than I currently pay, I don't currently pay for my broadband anyway. Is an extra ten meg worth going from free to £10 per month?
 
I would. For two reasons - firstly the estimates are conservative so you'll likely find you get more than 30 meg. I was quoted as getting 32 meg when I placed my order but actually got the full 40 at the time and when the upgrades were rolled out I got 70. Secondly, I'd personally benefit from the faster upstream and slightly lower latency would be nice.

Depends whether you will benefit from faster uploads and if you want to take a gamble with the speeds. You most likely will get faster than 30 though. Even if you don't, it's still a 50% increase which is pretty substantial but it depends how much you download too.
 
Depends if you need it really. Do you download enough to warrant 30 over 20?

Being on VM, I got my 30MB doubled to 60MB. Tbh, I don't really need that much. I do download fairly frequently, but 30MB is more than enough when I had it.
 
I wouldn't as i already pay enough, but i'd happily trade half my download speed for 20 or 30 meg upload instead of 10 the only reason i have 100mb is for that measly 10 up. December and Infinity being in my area can't get here soon enough.
 
KIA said:
No.

Fastpath ADSL has the same latency as fastpath VDSL2.
Click to expand...

I actually noticed a difference, albeit slight. Used to get around 18ms to UK servers on Be, now seeing 10ms on BT VDSL2. I realise different ISPs aren't the best basis for comparison but I'd be surprised if I saw the same 10ms to UK servers with BT ADSL2+.
 
I know it wasn't directed at me, but I'm also on Infinity:

Code: 
C:\>ping www.bbc.co.uk

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.244.69] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 212.58.244.69:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 10ms, Average = 10ms
 
Thanks, just wanted to see.

I don't think Spenty had the fastpath option on then if the pings dropped 'significantly' from Be -> BT

The type of carrier/connection is all that affects the lowering of ping. If the ISP is **** or is bad quality your ping will stay bad in general.

VM are fibre (that's what they say) and I've yet to see good pings from their users.

IMO a good ISP has decent speeds and pings to a majority of websites rather than just one or two.
 
Fastpath was on my BE* line. I'd say dropping from around 20ms to 5-10ms is a significant drop, basically halfed my ping.
 
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