EE throttling connection to force switch to fibre?

Krakkkers

If it did not need that connection speed to maintain that resolution/bitrate/buffer then it would not use it.
Try getting that with 6 Mbps. 

Krakkkers

J_B said:

Krakkkers said:
Landlines are effectively dead ....................

So, how do you expect us rural dwellers (with no mobile signal)  communicate then?

If you have a landline and need it then that is fine but most of these new Fibre companies do not offer that product.

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Krakkkers said:

If it did not need that connection speed to maintain that resolution/bitrate/buffer then it would not use it.
Try getting that with 6 Mbps. 

Here you go, same video as my previous example (your F1 warm up).

I've rate limited my PC to 6 Mbps using device bandwidth throttling in my router and guess what, it is still streaming but check the difference in the "network activity" row now because it can't do short fast bursts, it is now streaming more constantly and took longer to fill the buffer but it is still happily streaming a 1080p/50 video with enough headroom to fill the buffer. The bitrate of the video is more likely around 2-3 mbps given this result.



I'm not trying to advocate a 6mbps connection, I'm on 1 gig up/down myself and think that should be the norm, but I need to point out incorrect information.

30 years working in IT infrastructure and networking says I'm correct.

Krakkkers

I understand what you are saying and you are "technically" correct but as i am watching Youtube i am also on my laptop downloading from newsgroups and my Mrs is on her Tablet and probably another 5 things are connected to the Wifi.
It is possible to be "technically" correct but be "actually" wrong as the network will use what it can get but if all it has is 6Mbps then its going to struggle to maintain 1080p/720p and a healthy buffer, i know this as i have just upgraded from a 35 Mbps service that used to struggle.

lather30

Krakkkers said:

Your need for a landline and satisfaction with low speeds makes you the exception so you are going to struggle.
Landlines are effectively dead so why do you want to persevere with that?

Landlines aren't dead for older people who struggle with mobiles - such as my parents who are both in their 80s with issues such as limited vision. And you don't have to worry about a landline running out of charge either!

It may come as a surprise to you, but not everyone wants a smartphone that's nagging them every few seconds to look at the latest social media post...    The only reason I have one for work is so that I can check the weather while I'm out in the countryside leading guided walks, or find out how late my bus home is running at the end of the walk.

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lather30 said:

For many years, my EE broadband connection has been pretty reliably around the 6Mb/s mark for downloads. However, since the work was done to get FTC fibre broadband into the area, my speed has dropped to 0.9Mb/s at best. Ironically, the upload speed seems not to have changed, so now the upload speed tests at 1Mb/s or above, which means that uploads are now faster than downloads! When I check on the EE website for the predicted connection speed for my location, it says the best I can get is 1Mb/s. This sharp drop in speed has made the connection pretty much unusable for anything like streaming video, and making it much harder for me to WFH running my own business.

So, does anyone know if EE have started to throttle older wired broadband connections (i.e. those over the normal phone line all of the way from the exchange) to try and force people to sign up to fibre broadband? It does seem very suspicious to me that, as soon as fibre becomes available in my area, my connection speed mysteriously drops to around 16% of what it was previously...

Do you have an objection to swapping? Fibre is so much more reliable, it doesn't seem to cost any more and sooner or later ADSL will be dropped anyway.