Is this speed any good ?

GRM

It's a bit better than what I get for my £7.50/month from Sky....

Strider590

Up speed is poor, but you'll probably never need it. Download speed is good, but you'll never use it because anything that uses that sort of bandwidth has been blocked under the guise of stopping piracy.

However isps are wise to bandwidth testing sites and allow extra bandwidth to those whilst restricting everything else.

enfield_freddy

after what was a simple upgrade with talk talk that went wrong , andthem paying me credits of 2 x £30 and one of £50 and a huge deduction on my line rental I ended up with


http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/141401724618136889847.png






2.1 km (or was that miles?) from the exchange


I don,t use my phone (unplugged) so its about £12 a month , including phone line.

enfield_freddy

Strider590 wrote: »

Up speed is poor, but you'll probably never need it. Download speed is good, but you'll never use it because anything that uses that sort of bandwidth has been blocked under the guise of stopping piracy.

However isps are wise to bandwidth testing sites and allow extra bandwidth to those whilst restricting everything else.

umm , instead of typing "pirates bay" use the words "pirates bay proxy"


on TTs basic setup with a max of about 6meg I was lucky if I could see d/loads exceeding 400ks , now having 60 meg the d/load speed rarely exceeds 5 meg


I chose the 20 meg up , as I has NAS drives connected on my network and I can now stream full 2 hr movies to my android easily


Netflix ,,, watch out!

GRM

enfield_freddy wrote: »

2.1 km (or was that miles?) from the exchange

With fibre it's now distance to cabinet that determines your speed, IIRC 65Mb/s is what's expected from a distance of ~300 metres.

My cabinet is due to be upgraded in around 12 months time, should be looking at ~50Mb/s, just a tad better than the current 1.3Mb/s....

Cycrow

Strider590 wrote: »

Up speed is poor, but you'll probably never need it. Download speed is good, but you'll never use it because anything that uses that sort of bandwidth has been blocked under the guise of stopping piracy.

However isps are wise to bandwidth testing sites and allow extra bandwidth to those whilst restricting everything else.

Theres plenty of things that can use large amounts of bandwidth without being blocked.

i download from Steam all the time, and i usually get between 8-10MB/s

firefox1956

enfield_freddy wrote: »

after what was a simple upgrade with talk talk that went wrong , andthem paying me credits of 2 x £30 and one of £50 and a huge deduction on my line rental I ended up with


http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/141401724618136889847.png






2.1 km (or was that miles?) from the exchange


I don,t use my phone (unplugged) so its about £12 a month , including phone line.

God God......that speed would frighten my computers to death !!!

RumRat

We are so far behind even our cable services are slow....10Gps BB.
Major investment is needed for us to get anywhere near the leading tech countries.