Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

michaels

Why don't you get 52 from Virgin SC?

Fibre seems to cost about £130 for 12 months including phone line rental etc whereas non-fibre is about £45 all in for 12 months.

WE used to get about 6 on adsl and that was fine for streaming on 1 tv but struggled once you added a second or third device. Although BT in theory also gave us 50 (same as new virgin) it seemed to fail almost every evening whereas touch wood the virgin is up all the time. They did leave an ugly green pipe across our front yard that they promise they will come back and bury at some point.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

And in other news .... somebody above is now "just showing off" by posting their speed image! :P

I was just trying to show whether GDB's 10:1 prediction was accurate.

I probably pay a lot more than you to get the speed I do.

I was actually disappointed - I should be getting more than that. We have "vivid 200 optical fibre" broadband, I guess that means we should get 200 rather than 41. Though I suspect 200 is split between all devices.



Just redone it. I guess plugging in an ethernet cable to the router would improve it, as the wifi must have a limit??

vivatifosi

I don't have fibre, but my standard bb is 20.38. Didn't catch the upload, but was pretty slow.

vivatifosi

Don't know what's going on herejust rechecked to get upload. Our download is 21.66, find for what we use, upload is about the same as PN. Ours is standard, not fibre.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Blimey, Silver! You're on fire!

Is that fibre?

Well, it certainly isn't aluminium

Note - that wasn't a hark back to our American English discussion of a few days ago. ADSL doesn't work as well over aluminium cables compared to copper ones. There is still quite a bit of aluminium on the network - put in in the '70s when the price of copper was sky high and the network needed to be expanded in a cost-effective way. Aluminium was found to be a satisfactory solution, which it is if you only want to carry voice and, maybe, fax services. Back then no-one had thought of ADSL so it wasn't seen as a problem.

chris_m

vivatifosi wrote: »

Don't know what's going on herejust rechecked to get upload. Our download is 21.66, find for what we use, upload is about the same as PN. Ours is standard, not fibre.

With a 21Mb/s download I'd have expected more than a bit under 1Mb/s upload speed but it does depend on whether or not the provider has pegged it at a lower speed than the system is capable of providing, possibly to reserve more bandwidth for the download speed.

LydiaJ

I've tried that speed checker several times but it just gets stuck thinking about it. Which is odd because my download speed is fine for most of the stuff I want to do.

vivatifosi

chris_m wrote: »

With a 21Mb/s download I'd have expected more than a bit under 1Mb/s upload speed but it does depend on whether or not the provider has pegged it at a lower speed than the system is capable of providing, possibly to reserve more bandwidth for the download speed.

I did wonder if it was down to device. Currently surfing on a cheapo kindle fire that cost me less than fifty quid. DH ran same test on laptop with a squizillion firewalls and anti virus and malware stoppers and the download was half the speed of mine. Yet the upload was faster.

hjd

Download 54.16Mb/s, upload 5.96Mb/s here (Sky)

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Weather's lovely. Went to a car boot, spent £2.20. Cut the grass, took it to the tip. New builds are definitely making a difference to Windy Corner, it's possible to sit outside without being blown away! Of course, there's nothing out there to be outside for ... so I'm inside.

I'm not a keen gardener, either, but you could try clearing a little patch of ground and sticking some bedding plants in. You can get a trayful of small ones for £2-5 and they don't half grow!