Currently 4.2 down, 1.3 up at home.
Although slower than the OPs, Netflix streams just fine in HD for me, so yours should be fine? Depends on the device I suppose, my old PS3 couldn’t make it work with 6Mb. Won’t do a thing when the eldest is up during his 8 hours Youtube binges…
Moving in 2 weeks, new house has Cable or FTTC options, I’ve gone for 100Mb cable, I didn’t really want to use Virgin, we’ve got 300Mbs Virgin in work and it’s not been very reliable, but there’s already a virgin line at the house. 50 seemed a bit tight, 100 is more than enough for me.
OpenReach did pledge to offer fibre to all residential customers by April 2016, which they failed at, but a lot of people we speak to about poor internet are just moaning about what they have and never check what’s available. Standard Copper Broadband is topped out about 12Mb, if you want to go faster you need Fibre which is currently topped out at 300Mb.
Globally Gigabit fibre is slowing becoming the norm, it’s not *exactly* the same, but theoretically with a gigabit leased line you’d get 1000Mb down and 1000Mb up which is the same connection speed as most modern internal networks.