Broadband offer and megabytes?

illbeurhuckleberry

Hi all

I'm coming to the end of my BT contract. Its currently costing me £30.99.
I've found Shell enegry 18mth contract @ £12.21 with 11mb.
And suoerbroadband @ £15 58 38mb.
I work from home and use my laptop for meetings presentations call handling etc. Which MB is sufficient? Any recommendations too.

Thanks all ( Sunday mission to review and save money).

shiraz99

The 11Mb offering sounds like an ADSL product whereas the 38Mb is FTTC (VDSL), which will give you a much better upload speed as well as being more stable. If working from home I'd use the latter Super Broadband product.

prowla

To clarify - data transfer rates are specified in megabits (or gigabits) per second, which are written Mb, Mbps, or Mb/s (or Gb, etc.), .

Storage & memory are typically specified in megabytes (or gigabytes, or terabytes), which are written MB (or GB, or TB).

A byte is 8 bits and a bit is the smallest unit in binary digital technology.

There is no such thing as an mb (it would be a millibit!).

The important thing to know is that a "B" is 8x a "b" and the thousand, milllion, and billion multiplier prefixes are "M", "G", and "T".

As for those speeds; I would suggest that 11Mb would be insufficient for typical use and so the £3 extra for 38Mb would be worth it.

Chino

prowla said:

There is no such thing as an mb (it would be a millibit!).

From the context it was perfectly clear what the OP meant.

Chino

illbeurhuckleberry said:

I've found Shell enegry 18mth contract @ £12.21 with 11mb.

Whilst no ISP is perfect and people only refer to their ISP on this forum when they have a complaint with their ISP, Shell Energy seems to get more than its fair share of mentions on this forum.

iniltous

Just my opinion but going for anything just on price isn’t necessarily a good policy, I tend to look  the cheapest provider of anything not just ISP’s  , as ‘why are they so cheap ?’  with the broadband you are considering (FTTC /VDSL -38Mb ) the equipment between you and where the ISP takes over is Openreach and pretty much the same regardless of which provider you chose…where cost savings can take place is the amount of bandwidth the individual ISPs have available ( called backhaul ) a way to be cheaper than your rivals is to skimp on this backhaul ( less backhaul = less cost ) but their customers may experience poor performance especially at peak times when they basically have more customers than the backhaul they have available  can handle , slowing things down.

Browntoa

40mb is the minimum network speed that BT plan for on their network for uhd 4k TV .

Then again Netflix reckon 2mb is the minimum.

Either speed is adequate for what you state , the problem you could get with a cheaper supplier is throttling of their network due to limited network capacity. Throttling could reduce your actual speed to way below the actual connection speed on your hub

Madmel

Shell Energy are a nightmare to deal with. I am still waiting for them to refund me line rental paid in advance in April. Despite their website claiming that it will come back to my bank account in 10 working days, they claimed that they need to send me a cheque. They are a truly awful organisation who lie repeatedly. Sorry

kb1979

I work from home and my employer insists on 15 mbs as the minimum. So would  not recommend the 11mbs on adsl. What speed are currently getting and paying for?

southsidergs

Browntoa said:

40mb is the minimum network speed that BT plan for on their network for uhd 4k TV .

To be pedantic here, that's only on BT tv as it uses multi cast, 25 Mbps is the actual minimum for 4k streaming

RogerBareford

Chino said:

prowla said:

There is no such thing as an mb (it would be a millibit!).

From the context it was perfectly clear what the OP meant.

I think it's important to explain the difference because most people don't know and state it all different ways which mean all different things without realising.