We used to have sub 1meg. Often got better internet offshore in Africa .....
They built a large commercial stables down the road and they brought in fibre.
We now get 25 meg which is fine for me....better than alot of my buddy's in town 🙂
There's always a bottle neck at the other end, but assuming not.
About 10mins in work, 30 mins via 5G at home, although it would take me 16Gb over my monthly allowance or about 75 mins via Virgin at home. In reality though, it's going to be a couple of hours because Xbox stores at least can't seem to squeeze out more than 40-60Mbps anyway.
I know the OPs pain though, our, old, old place was a brand new house with FTTP, but OpenReach didn't upgrade the cabinet until about 3 weeks before we moved out. We used to get about 4Mbps, or close to 0 when Jnr was watching YT on his Tablet. 6 years I lived there with a fancy little fibre connection coming into the house, connected to a cabinet from the 1800s.
You can sign up for Starlink now in the UK
Are Switch games much smaller then? We seem to fit loads on the memory card which I think was only a couple of hundred gig.
I sent off the token we got through the door a while back to get connected to FTTP but didnt notice you actually needed a contract to get connected, thought it was more a note of interest thing. looked at some reviews and zen looked promising but the 900mb service is about 90 a month. we are getting 50-60 with plusnet for I think £25 a month and it's been good for years so probably stick with that.
Ahhh back in the days of original ADSL when it went from 2Mb to 8 (ADSL II?) I was with Virgin Media and all of a sudden my Upload was faster than my Download (500kpbs 300kbps down IIRC). Usual calls to Virgin Media it was all about my router, cabling, filters etc. I provided my own router at the time.
Moved to Zen. Same router. Problem went away got close to the 8Mbps down at the time.
Are Switch games much smaller then? We seem to fit loads on the memory card which I think was only a couple of hundred gig.
Yeah, Nintendo typically focus on gameplay rather than flashy graphics.
A Nintendo title, like a Zelda game or something will be around 10GB, some of the 3rd party titles are as big as 25GB to 30GB.
30GB is about the starting point for a current Xbox or PS game (PS4 or 5 era) but that would be a fairly basic one. RDR2 was the first one I knew of to break the 100GB barrier, although some earlier games could easily break that will add-ones and DLC. I think one of the newer COD games is well over 150GB, although lord knows why, they're not exactly huge maps or massively interactive environments. It's probably because they seem to need to bang out another rehash of the same game (or even a polished up version of an old one) every year, when some big titles are 5 years in the making.
I'd very much be jumping on a big fat FTTP connection the moment I can throw money at it, but have to admit I've had a line fault for the last 10 days that has dropped me from 60mpbs to 24Mpbs and it has made very little difference to my life.
openreach were on my street yesterday putting in a fttp link. Their website recons I can get 1gbps, but I just signed up to another year at 30mbps (not even the limit of our fttc connection) as I have no use for anything faster than that. Would be good for bragging rights, though 🙂
edit : bt will give me 900mbps estimated for £60/month (450mbps guaranteed). bit spendy for me
31 minutes. We are on Virgin 350Mb service at £36 a month. Apparently we could go up to 1Gb but 350 is more than enough for us - me working from home on zoom/team video confs most of the day, 2 kids playing online and talking to mates on houseparty, wife browsing/facebooking.
4g here at 24mps approx
Landline internet sub 1.....
Giffgaff paye sim unlimited data 35 quid
Same. Landline 3 or 4. 4G - 60/70 down 14/18 up. Three £22 unlimited 🙂
Well that is just over 4 days of downloading done and dusted. Home straight now. Less than 1 GB to go and showing about 1 hour 15 minutes at current speeds. I had hoped to get it finished by midnight so I could call it a birthday pressie to myself. Unfortunately looks like I will just miss out 🙁
65 seconds here ish on three 5G - regularly manages over 1gig. £14 a month at the moment but there’s a fair usage limit of 1 terrabyte 🙂
They are just about to upgrade the cell site to 10Gbps...
A few folk here getting their MBps and Mbps confused.
If you have 1Gbps (1 gigabit, small b) then that's 1000Mbit (1024 megabits) which divides by 8 to give you 1024/8 = 128Megabytes per second. That's theoretical max, as a rough guide divide by 10 - so 1 gigabit gets you 100megabyte a second. Which would be 13 minutes ish, not 65 seconds ish.
Of course if you're on wifi, that's probably a bottleneck on a 1gig connection.
IA - correct! My ability to do simple maths seems to have vanished during lockdown
30mbps here in the middle of nowhere’ish on a microwave thing as opposed to an allegedly virgin 200mbps.
I was going to upgrade to 100mbps but interestingly when you get the consistent speed that you’ve signed for it’s not that bad.
I’m currently awaiting my Starlink dish as I’m sorta wanting to go off grid with a solar powered setup not reliant on the local power grid 🙂
IA – correct! My ability to do simple maths seems to have vanished during lockdown
I suppose the big issue is whether your porn feed is streaming like a bad vhs movie , where they’ve stretched the tape by the constant pausing of the good parts.:-)
Have flip-flopped on my opinion of BT. Ordered Wednesday with Zen; BT-O came to survey where to dig on Thursday! Amazeballs. And confirmed we should be priority as we are <30mbps now... mind you, they did say that the usual date for digging the trench would be April.
NB, I reserve the right to change my mind on BT at any time and without notice.
15 down .4 up been in contact with OReach who will happily run FTtp if all 678 houses in area form a legal entity to give them £250k so stuck with what we get do you 4/5G guys get decent uploads ?
Happy Birthday (for yesterday) Welshfarmer!