Unoffical broadband speed survey- whats yours, RIGHT NOW? 6.95 mb/sec, in BN1

Futuristic

Oblivion wrote: »

Fibre is fibre-optic cable, now frequently used to provide a signal to the local node or even local street cabinet.

Fibre-optic to the home, known as FTTH (home) or FTTP (property) is still in it's infancy, available to a very few at the moment and is very expensive.

The typical Virgin installation is Coax Cable to the property. It is not fibre-optic.


As to being 'arrogant' I simply don't like being called out by someone who clearly doesn't know what they are talking about.

Still fibre, or if you want to get down to technical hybrid fibre coax hence why it still is advertised as fibre broadband.

It works exactly as FTTC if i'm correct, fibre to the green box and coax to home.

boliston

Futuristic wrote: »

Still fibre, or if you want to get down to technical hybrid fibre coax hence why it still is advertised as fibre broadband.

I'm surprised they can get away with describing a product delivered over copper cable as "fibre". Also they never seem to mention UPLOAD speeds - I'm sure is something like only 6% of the download speed compared with 25% for FTTC

Oblivion

Futuristic wrote: »

fibre to the green box and coax to home.

Now you're beginning to understand. Coaxial cable and fibre-optic cable are totally different technologies.

mac.d

skintpaul wrote: »

Using http://www.speedtest.net/

Curious to what average sdpeeds folk around the UK are getting, on 'normal' broadband connections- not fibre, for the moment!

Immaterial of the pointless arguments (at least in the context of this thread) about what is fibre and what isn't, it's pretty obvious what the OP is asking about. So he's had one helpful reply to his post so far!

Edit: I won't post mine since I'm not on bog-standard 'normal' broadband.

pete-20-11

poppasmurf_bewdley

We are four miles from the exchange, in a very rural area.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/4835312394.png

JJ_Egan

Where does the OP want me to measure from ??
The master socket , The PC ,Tablet over Wifi ,
Smart TV over WiFi . Android phone over WiFi .
All different speeds and only one can be used as the true incoming speed and that the 38mb at the master socket on a 38 meg fibre BT connection.

Nilrem

161mb/s down, 12mb/s up according to the test, which sounds about right.

*hugs cable modem*

fabia

17.64 Mb/s Down
1.19 Mb/s Up
Ping 20 ms
Preston Server

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4836804548

Just north of Bury BL8 postcode on Sky LLU

forgotmyname

As nobody else seems to think they are on fibre I presume my WIFI connection means I am not also



A bit better than my old sub 4mb connection.