How fast is your internet connection?

[martin-s]

 

[aZooZa]

What are you upto in China?

Building a huge ETH mining factory at the bottom of the Three Gorges dam in Yichang. Just putting in the last of the twenty bamboo water wheels. The pandas keep eating them up but we soldier on...

 

[dee]

I do a lot of media uploads though and virgin choke pretty badly sometimes on the up

 

[BG]

Not too shabby for being on a farm in the middle of nowhere...

 

[mat]

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[Admin]

Not too shabby for being on a farm in the middle of nowhere...

So what technology are you using to get this?

 

[Admin]

Envious of some of these numbers but surprised how poor your Ping times are. I live in rural andalucia up a mountain, no adsl or fibre here. Have a blade on the house that picks up a wimax signal.

ping 4ms Down 12mb Up 3

Good enough for hd streaming.

 

[RobM]

Well Malta is a law unto itself of course... sometimes the tin cans make the string slack so even though I pay for 100Mb I get between 50 and 90 (never seen 100) down with 6-9 upload and a ping of 5ish. As with so many things nothing is quite implemented properly.

 

[signature]

I don't want to miss out on showing off my broadband bandwidth, .....and I work from home.

 

[Edwin]

I don't want to miss out on showing off my broadband bandwidth, .....and I work from home.
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Ouch! Do you have 4G in your area? I'd have thought you'd get better throughput from a dongle if so... Even 3G might beat it (not sure though)

 

[signature]

Ouch! Do you have 4G in your area? I'd have thought you'd get better throughput from a dongle if so... Even 3G might beat it (not sure though

EE is the only one I can use, I have to keep it in a particular part of the house. Two broadband, BT and XLN plus EE 4G (3 bars the most and most of the time revert to 3G). I use the broadband for downloads and use the EE for usual day to day internet needs.

 

[lazarus]

I don't want to miss out on showing off my broadband bandwidth, .....and I work from home.
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Where abouts is this from ? You must really be out in the sticks?

 

[signature]

Where abouts is this from ? You must really be out in the sticks?

Outskirt of( or between) Hertford and Tewin, our exchange box is in Hertford.

 

[lazarus]

I think things will get better for the struggling areas. There has been a lot in the news recently about it.

 

[aZooZa]

I'm sure @Edwin will know more about this and hopefully he'll share; but another factor I think is crucial is contention. For example, I'm in an apartment complex in China right now and in the morning, the speed is reasonable. As soon as the day wears on, the kids get online and start playing their multiplayer games, and the parents are all online watching videos. Then the speed starts to trickle. Same in Thailand.

When I lived in the UK I had a BT connection. When I asked them about contention they told me there would be a maximum of 50 'sharers'. I don't have my Android phone with me and it's not available on iOS, but a really fascinating app is 'Wifi Analyyzer' which shows you all the wifi routers in range and their signal strength. There are apps for iOS but they only address public systems like Starbucks etc., not private 'in-range' systems. If you have an Android phone - grab this app - very interesting. You can also use it to choose the optimal channel spectrum to set on your router.

 

[monaghan]

The speed shown does seem to depend on the test server you select, I get 3-4Mbps difference between a few of the test servers on the list!

Without switching off the other servers and users on the local network, I get 74Mbs down & 18 up on a Plusnet fibre ADSL using an original BT VDSL modem and a Mikrotik router. We're 10 houses from the BT cabinet and previous speed tests with everything switched off showed just a tad under 78Mbps which is basically as fast as the infrastructure will support at present.

The kids can play games, stream films and I can work with no impact on each other, I run several backups into the office over night with no issues or usage / speed caps. We can frequently eat between 1 & 2TB / month

 

[TallBloke]

Wirral here.

We can actually get BT Infinity 1 which would give approx 72mb/s. I was on Infinity 2 which gave approx 32mb/s.

But even on current speeds with sky (switched for a cashback deal) I find the download speed is fine for netflix, youtube, etc and that's with two teenagers who watch youtubers all the time.

Because I don't download lots of movies, software etc I (currently) don't have a requirement for superfast broadband.

For those of you getting 100Mbs + ...do you need that sort of speed?

 

[monaghan]

For those of you getting 100Mbs + ...do you need that sort of speed?

I'd suspect that the majority of people on these high speeds wouldn't notice if they were on a much slower connection AND that's how they get away with offering such high headline speeds, as long as the data stream for netflix etc... are at least as fast as the rate the player is decoding and buffering the average user won't be able to tell and how on earth will the average user know how fast their web page is downloading?

That said, I think the back end of things like Virgin have undergone a significant update and is more capable of providing a better level of performance than the old individual cable company days when I ditched my Virgin (formally NTL/CableTel) cable for an ADSL with 5Mbps connection and got a huge performance increase.

 

[davedevelopment]

Rarely have any issues with the line, most of my anger gets directed towards the wifi routers and the power over ethernet things for the various devices around the house. Love the cat 6 running to my desk

 

[martin-s]

most of my anger gets directed towards the wifi routers

Agree - we had to rewire our place just after moving in a few years ago and put wired networking to every room.