why do you have to pay line rental?

spaceboy

Buzby wrote: »

Er, no. You would get 'up to'. You're falling into the same trap. I'm on Virgin and they offer 152Mb. Yes, this it 'up to' as well, but on average I'm happy with 130Mb outwith peak times.

No, they say "up to 38Mb" but when I enter our postcode and house number it then says 34Mb.

Whereas with normal broadband they say "up to 17Mb" but then 3Mb when I tell them the address.

spaceboy

Buzby wrote: »

Go to Kingston (Hull) or Virgin. The competition is there - you just need to be in the right area.

Well there lies the problem. And there is no competition on the phoneline network is there?

SeduLOUs

spaceboy wrote: »

No, they say "up to 37Mb" but when I enter our postcode and house number it then says 34Mb.

It's still 'up to'. When I entered my postcode for normal broadband they said I 'could' get 17Mb. I actually get more like 8Mb.

No fibre here for me yet

spaceboy

SeduLOUs wrote: »

It's still 'up to'. When I entered my postcode for normal broadband they said I 'could' get 17Mb. I actually get more like 8Mb.

No fibre here for me yet

Still there is a 10 times difference between 3Mb and 34Mb.

Pincher

Since this is so popular, the obvious solution is to supply Wi-Fi from the telephone exchange.


You just have to take your computer to the exchange, bring a stool if you want to sit, and surf the internet that way. No phone line required.

SeduLOUs

spaceboy wrote: »

Still there is a 10 times difference between 3Mb and 34Mb.

Yes, assuming you currently get 3Mb and will actually hit the maximum 34Mb.

It depends what you are doing with the connection though, 3Mb is perfectly sufficient for most people.

I however have two Xbox Ones playing online multiplayer at the same time and trying to stream gameplay to a Twitch channel, with two laptops and two phones also connected to the Wifi. We have to make sacrifices on what we want to do and keep disconnecting devices because our current connection simply cannot cope with it all at once. For us the upload speed is the main issue, capped at 1Mb.

spaceboy

is 1.5-3Mb enough for Netflix and other streaming video?

SeduLOUs

spaceboy wrote: »

is 1.5-3Mb enough for Netflix and other streaming video?

1.5Mb might not be perfect. 3Mb should do it as long as you aren't trying to download on laptops and other devices at the same time.

What speeds are you getting currently?

If you can watch HD videos smoothly on YouTube and BBC iplayer etc then you shouldn't have any problems with Netflix.

Edit, additional from Google:

Generally speaking Netflix “requires” a minimum broadband ISP download speed of 0.5Mbps (512Kbps) to function, although they recommend between 1.5Mbps to 3Mbps for SD quality streams and 5Mbps for HD (720p or better).

spaceboy

SeduLOUs wrote: »

1.5Mb might not be perfect. 3Mb should do it as long as you aren't trying to download on laptops and other devices at the same time.

What speeds are you getting currently?

If you can watch HD videos smoothly on YouTube and BBC iplayer etc then you shouldn't have any problems with Netflix.

We have just moved house, we used to have Virgin and the speed was pretty decent. We dont have internet just now and I need to get it sorted tonight or I wont be popular!

giraffe69

Unless money is very tight I would go for a fibre service because
a. if not it will be a misery compared with what you used to have
b. it will give you a better experience
c. it is more future proofed