Check Internet quality on house

csgohan4

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MobileSaver said:

rigolith said:

Gavin83 said:

I'd love to know what you're doing that requires 1000Mb upload speeds. Have you invented teleportation via ethernet or something?

This is old thinking, from before many people worked from home and video games were delivered digitally.

It's interesting that your "new thinking" didn't have an answer for what you and many others need 1000Mb upload speeds for...

I work from home. Regularly handle large files over the VPN. Current connection is 67/20 and it grinds to a crawl when saving big files. Not just for me, for everyone in the house.

That's what people forget, these are not single user internet connections. You don't want your Netflix stuttering because someone is downloading a patch.

These days mid range phones shoot 4k video, and people want to upload it to YouTube etc.

I also use cloud storage for personal backup, got a few terabytes up there and it took months and months to upload. When I am working on a project the overnight backups are often still running when I start work in the morning.

The really frustrating part is that with OpenReach you have to pay for the top speed to get just 100mbps upload. I'd much rather have 500/500, if I couldn't get 1000/1000.

Gigabit in both directions means you just don't have to think about it. No contention issues with half a dozen users. Future proof. Trust OpenReach to drag their heels and move as slowly as possible on this. Meanwhile Japan has 10,000/10,000 as the baseline in most cities now, with 20,000/20,000 available in some areas.

I think if one uses it for work regularly and needs the bandwidth, it would be reasonable to consider 100+. <100 Is probably more for regularly home use

Sandtree

Depending where you are buying I doubt there is a single site that definitively covers all options... obviously most broadband is ultimately on the OpenReach infrastructure so always good to check their. After that its a case of checking the minority that dont use it like Virgin or Hyperoptic. 

When we first moved to London was told the max speed was going to be 5Mbps but the sales guy said that was obviously wrong and probably just a case of waiting for space in the cabinet to open up. Stupidly accepted this and after many many calls found we were actually copper directly to the exchange and so no chance of FTTC as there was no cabinet 

Thankfully they admitted miss-selling and so allowed an exit without penalty. At which point I found out about Hyperoptic which comes in at 1Gbps on a SDL... subtle difference between 5Mbps and 1Gbps. 

MidnightWolf

AdrianC said:

MidnightWolf said:

But it isn’t just a one-time download. Most games will receive updates, often on a monthly basis, and they can easily be 4GB+. A bit of a pain (first world problems, I know) if you sit down to play and then you’ve got to wait a couple of hours first.

And they don't download in the background if the console's left on?

Not everyone uses a console. I don’t own one, I use a PC. Full fibre makes a world of difference, especially as I find myself working from home most days now (I work in IT so fast remote access to servers and files is a necessity for me).