From the top.
BT WiFi at work
4G at work
4G at home
Virgin WiFi at home.
I’m on o2 and very impressed. BT are officially shit!

Posted 6 years ago

Unless you have an issue with latency and then they appear to be pretty much shit hot…

Posted 6 years ago

Yep, is very impressive. I’m on work EE and whilst i use Wi-Fi on virgin at home, I keep it on 4g wherever I can otherwise. It’s great.

Posted 6 years ago

Network is getting better all the time too.

I’m on O2 and at my parents little village 10 miles outside York, get a steady 60 Mb connection !

Posted 6 years ago

BT at work: how many devices were using it and how far away is the exchange?
My old place in Bristol was super fast but I lived a 1 mile from the exchange.

BT are cheaper for me where I live now but I’m 6 miles away from the exchange so the speed is slow/poor.

Virgin Broadband are 73 DL and 5.4 UL. Supposed to be 70/5. Stayed with them as I’m still paying the same as I did in 2001.

Three are 75DL and 35 UL. Inside home/weak signal.

Tempted to just use the mobile only, but Virgin don’t penalise if you use tons of data via NowTv or Netflick.

Posted 6 years ago

I get around 95 down and 50 up on T mobile in Austria.
Unlimited data for 30 euro a month.

Posted 6 years ago

BT at work was just my phone. Not sure where the exchange is but we have lots of boxes near us that open reach people are always playing with.

Posted 6 years ago

Y’alright zippy?

Welcome to the 20th century. 😆

Posted 6 years ago

Iphone6
38 wifi at home (on VM120mb service).
39 4g at home

Home Pc
94 down / 11 up on (VM120mb service through ethernet).
If I plug my works i7 behemoth it gets pretty much the full 120mb.

I was one of the first in my old street to get VM cable BB (or NTL as it was), at a whopping 512kb !!!

Posted 6 years ago

kebouy – Member
Y’alright zippy?
Welcome to the 20th century.

Getting colour telly next week.

Posted 6 years ago

using the stock virgin router? by all accounts if you’re the sort to worry about connection speed this can be a severe bottleneck.

Posted 6 years ago

4g rocks. I’m running both EE (PAYGO data as a trial) and O2 (Tesco) and I’m about to dump O2 as it’s just pants here.

Posted 6 years ago

Network is getting better all the time too

Unless you’re on Vodafone.

Lucky for me I went on Three who’s 3G network outperforms Vodafone 4G. Their 4G is pretty impressive too and outperforms my Virgin wifi connection.

Posted 6 years ago

4G you say?

This is slow for me on EE.

Posted 6 years ago

Something wrong with my post for it to be deleted?

Posted 6 years ago

lucky you. I live in a town with a population of 20k. I get no signal unless I go into the attic. On any network.

which is odd because 300m down the road I can get 4g.

I dont even live in a dip.

thank god for whats app

Posted 6 years ago

Yup its great isnt it ? Been on 4G with 3 for 12+ months, all I want data/calls/sms for £18 a month. Frequently better than my home BT broadband (whuch can be uograded now as fibre installed)

Posted 6 years ago

Only 6 mins to check you 4g at home and then go to work and check it there. Beats my half he train journey every day.

Posted 6 years ago

4G you say?
This is slow for me in EE

Inside Westminster Abbey, lead roof ?

Posted 6 years ago

Something wrong with my post for it to be deleted?

No, clumsy fingers on an iPad. Sorry.

Inside Westminster Abbey, lead

Close. A car park in Northumberland ex-mining village.

Posted 6 years ago

O2 is rubbish here. GPRS on a good day and no signal the rest of the time. Even in the two closest towns (Ross and Ledbury) no 4G or even 3G. Switched to EE, 3G at home (and we live in a dip), 4G in town. Similar speeds to Drac on 4G. Honestly I thought I was in some sci-fi movie. Never seen speeds like that!

Two bonded ADSL lines at home (4km from exchange) is about 8meg. 3G is 7 meg. I don’t think the future for the last mile in rural locations is going to be twisted pair 😉

Posted 6 years ago

Close. A car park in Northumberland ex-mining village.

So close, almost nailed it!

Posted 6 years ago

Ive just taken out vodafone’s 20Gb 4G package and have no data service at all. Utterly shambolic.

Posted 6 years ago

What app are you using on your phones to do the test ?

Posted 6 years ago

Just type in speed test . There’s loads of different ones.

Posted 6 years ago

+1 Vodafone 4G being comparatively shit. Everyone I know on rival carriers receives significantly higher speeds than me. The only reason I renew with them is quality of customer service and overall value of package. Plus their signal booster works brilliantly off the router.

Posted 6 years ago

Speed Test I think ooolite it’s called.

Posted 6 years ago

I know but if I use the same app it’s a more accurate comparison

Posted 6 years ago

Ookla speed test.

Posted 6 years ago

The only reason I renew with them is quality of customer service and overall value of package.

Customer + Service when referring to Vodafone is a first. Their idea of customer service was to allow me to buy myself out of my contract for a service that didn’t work and if I did so they wouldn’t allow me to transfer my mobile number that I’d had for well over 10 years.
Slackboy, I feel your pain and no doubt you will waste many hours and days trying get it sorted without success.

Posted 6 years ago

Oookla that’s it. 😳

Vodafone customer service and pricing? Cost me more than most networks when I was with them and paying for a service they couldn’t provide so far from good value. When I rang to complain they tried to tell me there was 3G in the area, was there bollocks.

Posted 6 years ago

Those O2 speeds highlight just how rubbish the Giff Gaff speeds I was getting on the same 4g O2 network were……
They’re the ones in single figures!

Posted 6 years ago

I am getting a 400% variance in the results depending on which server is selected .

The closest one is not the quickest .

Posted 6 years ago

Check out today’s mega performance from BT.

Posted 6 years ago

EE 4G Darwen 86.72 dl and 10.54 upload. Super fast. 10gb data.

Virgin media broadband 78 dl 8 upload

Posted 6 years ago

Getting 160+ down and 25+ up on my home wifi. (Almost exactly the same on a wired connection)
3g is giving me 22/6.
4g is about 60/20. But the mast is being upgraded at the moment, so no 4g. 🙁

Plan was to put a local wifi network in. Just our little village. No point now. Gone from 5/1 on the mobile to full 3g/4g in the space of 3 years.

Posted 6 years ago

Having had flaky internet that does 2 mbps on a good day with a following wind etc, I’m quite content with a reliable 17 mbps from Plusnet. My 4G phone is quicker at downloading large files but the latency isn’t as good so I’ll use wifi when I can.

Posted 6 years ago