Reply to: Infinity 2

[chef]

Heehee, ahhh that's so sweet.. I remember them slooooow speeds in the Uk.

I have circa 350-400 Mb download depending on the day and I have no idea what upload as I rarely send anything large enough that its worth monitoring (its says 30-50Mb upload), which is annoying as the advert promised upto 500Mb download and I was hoping for more

Comhem, Sweden

[CheeseSlice]

Have virgin, the thing that annoys me is that although they keep banging on about how fast it is they don't mention how fond they are of throttling, took me 2 hrs on my 100Mb connection to download the latest episode of the Walking Dead in the evening a few days ago! Thinking of moving to BT when it available in my area (Jan 2014 they reckon).

Thats what put me off when thinking of switching.

[kal]

Have virgin, the thing that annoys me is that although they keep banging on about how fast it is they don't mention how fond they are of throttling, took me 2 hrs on my 100Mb connection to download the latest episode of the Walking Dead in the evening a few days ago! Thinking of moving to BT when it available in my area (Jan 2014 they reckon).

[VectraMan]

Data's always sent at the speed of light. Even if you're still using a 9,600 modem.

I've been umming and ahhhing about this for a couple of years, mainly because I'm a tenant and work uncertainty meant I didn't want to commit to an 18 month contract. I already get 16Mb anyway, but the main benefit would be for upload as I struggle with a measly 512K.

[russell]

Yep, my Zen is truly unlimited in terms of amount of data, also no bandwidth throttling at peak times or based on packet types, etc.
I'm put off BT by the fact that they have a long reputation for throttling and profiling, I frankly don't trust them with my data, and they're always the first target when someone wants to go after internet users (either to block sites, request user details, etc).

I have never seen it throttled or profiled. I can download files using utorrent no problem.

[original PM]

If website is slow to generate data then even if data was teleported to you with the speed of light it will still feel slow...

and with fibre it quite literally is...

[Ticktock]

like CUK forum members sometimes

FTFY

[CheeseSlice]

If website is slow to generate data then even if data was teleported to you with the speed of light it will still feel slow...

like CUK forum sometimes

[AtW]

Is that the norm?

If website is slow to generate data then even if data was teleported to you with the speed of light it will still feel slow...

[Ticktock]

I've gone from 3 to 40 Mbps, download/upload is way quicker but general browsing doesn't seem to be that much faster.

Is that the norm?

General web page browsing may not be. Unless you're browsing pages containing a tulip-load of data then your connection to the internet wouldn't have been retarding the page loads. It would more likely be the servers / connection at their end.

Really, where you'll see the benefits is in downloading files / videos, etc, or when streaming video. Netflix HD wants about 4Mbps minimum for a stable stream I think.
And if multiple people are trying to eat data at the same time, then of course you're sharing whatever bandwidth is available.

[gingerjedi]

I've gone from 3 to 40 Mbps, download/upload is way quicker but general browsing doesn't seem to be that much faster.

Is that the norm?

[AtW]

5.5 Gbits (aggregated).

HTH

[Ticktock]

I have it, the other good thing is it's truly unlimited.

Yep, my Zen is truly unlimited in terms of amount of data, also no bandwidth throttling at peak times or based on packet types, etc.
I'm put off BT by the fact that they have a long reputation for throttling and profiling, I frankly don't trust them with my data, and they're always the first target when someone wants to go after internet users (either to block sites, request user details, etc).

[Scrag Meister]

London : 60Mb Virgin Cable
Devon : 6-8Mb Orange ADSL. Nothing faster available, but then again we are only down there 1 weekend a month.

[original PM]

5 m down

0.5 m up

about the best i can get where i am