Is 40 - 63 mbps internet fast?

beverley1471

I have contacted my internet provider about upgrading my internet to faster, It currently runs between 2.7-3.1 gb on a speed test on the internet.

The message I got back is that I can upgrade to either 40 or 63 mbps, what is a mbps and is that faster than i am currently getting? I have tried googling for an answer but cannot seem to understand it. Sorry if I am being stupid but I don't want to pay for an upgraded internet without knowing if I will actually be getting a better service and i'm a bit of a technophobe!

Thanks for any help!

victor2

beverley1471 wrote: »

I have contacted my internet provider about upgrading my internet to faster, It currently runs between 2.7-3.1 gb on a speed test on the internet.

What test are you measuring it on? Speed tests (such as http://www.speedtest.net/) report the speed in bits per second or multiples thereof, so you may get a download speed of 5 Mbps for example, which is 5 megabits per second. Referring to gb suggests a data allowance of so many gigabytes (where a byte is 8 bits) and has nothing to do with speed. Note that download speed is also many times faster than the upload speed on nearly all broadband connections.

beverley1471 wrote: »

The message I got back is that I can upgrade to either 40 or 63 mbps, what is a mbps and is that faster than i am currently getting? I have tried googling for an answer but cannot seem to understand it. Sorry if I am being stupid but I don't want to pay for an upgraded internet without knowing if I will actually be getting a better service and i'm a bit of a technophobe!

40 or 63 Mbps is a very fast connection in the UK and presumably would come over fibre. Unless you have very heavy internet usage, you wouldn't particularly benefit from such a fast connection for an individual user.

Lum

beverley1471 wrote: »

I have contacted my internet provider about upgrading my internet to faster, It currently runs between 2.7-3.1 gb on a speed test on the internet.

No you aren't. That is 3 times faster than the maximum a modern day desktop computer can theoretically manage. You'd need a hugely expensive 10gig ethernet card and to be physically sat inside your internet provider's premises to stand a chance at getting that.

The message I got back is that I can upgrade to either 40 or 63 mbps, what is a mbps and is that faster than i am currently getting? I have tried googling for an answer but cannot seem to understand it. Sorry if I am being stupid but I don't want to pay for an upgraded internet without knowing if I will actually be getting a better service and i'm a bit of a technophobe!

It's a lot faster, but only really useful if you're planning on doing big downloads, e.g. from services such as Netflix or Steam.

Spank

Do you have any problems at the moment? if not I'd wait to upgrade to fibre as prices will probably come down.

penrhyn

The only reason you'll need 60Mbps if their ar 4 of you at home all watching streaming video at the same time. If thats not the case then anything around 10Mbps should meet your needs.
So don't pay for what you won't use.

debitcardmayhem

Silly question but here you go Why do you need faster than you have already? Tell us then we may be able to help you ...oh and as mentioned earlier you are not getting 2.7-3.1 or even 0.1 gbps

benje302

The 2.7 - 3.1 gb would have been a typo and should have been mbs. You will probably find the 40 or 63 is probably what BT infinatay could offer you. The option 1 is up to 40 mbs and their Option 2 is up to 80 but that all depends on how close you are to their cabinet. BT use FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) where as Virgin Media use FTTH (Fibre to the home). If you go for BT you will have 2 devices installed. A VDSL modem and a BT home hub connected to that. I am on BT infinity 2 and get around 72mbs download and 18mbs up. I went for that as I have 3 kids and a lot of streaming takes place at home. Do note that BT option 1 has a download limit where as option 2 has no limit. One other thing, if you have a really old and slow PC you might not even notice the increase.

Hope this helps.

Ben

victor2

benje302 wrote: »

BT use FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) where as Virgin Media use FTTH (Fibre to the home).

That's news to me and I'm with Virgin Media. It certainly isn't fibre coming into my home!

andy2004

same.
its actually a black cable, with a copper core.
it a copper core. with a plastic inner case with a silver grease covered with a black outer shell.
the grease stops water from penetrating the core over the years.

artbaron

63 > 3.1 all day and whilst you can expect less than the maximum it sounds like the speed increase would be significant.

Cycrow

victor2 wrote: »

That's news to me and I'm with Virgin Media. It certainly isn't fibre coming into my home!

its just virgin marketing confusing people to thinking thier whole line is fibre

virgin is coax to home from the cabinet.