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Just signed up for SF BB - 10mb upload so say 5mb - 40mb down so say 20mb hopefully and will be connected on 21st July - can't wait to dump 0.038 kbsp or whatever it is upload at moment.

I will be in 21st century

Dave
 
What speed connection are you on at the moment? I recently went from 3.5Mbps ADSL to 60-70Mbps fibre, it's unreal. The internet becomes fully usable again; you can load pages quickly, run downloads and updates without it slowing everything else down, uploads are much faster and it's just so much nicer to use.

You get used to it so quickly though, then it annoys you when something isn't downloading as fast as it could be. :D
 
I am calling it superfast as compared to my connection now it is.

Now on 6mb or less but killer is my upload at 0.038kb.

It will finally make my PC worth the time and money spent on it.

I signed for Infinity although I doubt I will watch much of it as I hate football - might watch Moto GP's though

ps - I am out in semi sticks so there's no chance of us getting 150mb
 
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TheVoice said:
You get used to it so quickly though, then it annoys you when something isn't downloading as fast as it could be. :D
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True.

I've had 75 down 19 up for over a year now and I'm already thinking about the day when speeds could increase. I recently downloaded GTAV from Steam which was like 60-65G or something. I was hitting 9.2MB/s and had the game in just under 2 hours. On my old connection that would have taken several days. Looking forward to the future where we all have GB connections. :cool:
 
Are we getting to the point where its the server / its connection that's slow rather than the users connection?

It could be my isp of course (HyperOptic) having problems with certain sites (like BBC during Wimbledon etc, iplayer, and several others) that always seem to buffer un-necessarily
 
I've recently gone from a Virgin 160Mb connection in a relatively uncontested part of town to a guaranteed 20Mb connection (moved out of town).

My new connection feels much snappier and the only time I missed the extra speed was downloading BF4 the other night.

I am starting to find big numbers aren't everything.
 
Happy with mine too. £28/month. Might pay ~£200 to upgrade to the 1Gb symmetrical service (£46/month)

 
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Playing games and browsing doesn't need a huge connection.

Download something like Netlimiter and see how trivial your internet use really is vs what you pay for.

The times when having a fast connection matters is when you're trying to move bulk data, usually entertainment media like films, game patches etc.
 
I know the feeling OP.

Since moving 4 years ago, the best we've had available to use was 2.5Mb/s, but the last few months we didn't see much over 1.5Mb/s. We have now eventually been able to get FTTC, so went for the 40Mb/s package - what a difference! So tempted to spend the extra £10 a month and got with the 80Mb/s.

Even the small things like Sky on-demand now works properly, the Chromecast is usable, and I can now watch 1080P YouTube. We couldn't even stream at 480 beforehand.
 
At university we had 2 ISDN lines, so 128Kbps combined upload and download.

This was 1996, so not ages and ages ago either.

Then in 2001 I worked at a software company with 1 ISDN line, so 64Kbps upload and download.

These speeds appear crazy slow now, however 15-20 years ago it was pretty impressive. I remember traveling into University just to use the internet.
 
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You forget that content available on the internet in those days was in the expectation of people having dial up modems because that was the standard.
 
FrankJH said:
It could be my isp of course (HyperOptic) having problems with certain sites (like BBC during Wimbledon etc, iplayer, and several others) that always seem to buffer un-necessarily
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It's probably Hyperoptic's transit and peering that's overloaded. I had their Gigabit service when I lived in London and it wasn't great - congestion was an ever present issue.
 
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