Show off your speed
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Geoff
VIP Member
Your old upload speed was horrible lolUpgraded my internet package..yet i saved £14 a month.
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Old speed...
New speed...
Your old speed is about twice as fast as mine here on the outskirts of Norwich (but it was upgraded from 5mbps down/0.6mbps up in January, so I won't complain
I remember first getting my internet with Blueyonder..something like 3Mbps down,Cant remember the upload but back in the day it was very good. for what i was paying.
How are Plusnet?..we cant get any BT supplied ISP in our area because of it been a newly built area they don't have any BT cables installed.
They are suppose to be fitting cables in our area soon for BT infinity but it keeps getting delayed so have no choice other than having to stick with Virgin media...they are quite good.
Yup,For some reason every ISP in the UK doesn't offer all that great Upload speeds,they are getting better though.
Now getting this:
Anyway, the provider still doesn't reach its 120/8 promise.
Ah but comon' mate, 102.59mbps down is awesome, even if 5.3 up is a little slow by comparison. You should be pretty happy with those speeds! :good:
ISPs can rarely fully deliver on their promises anyway. I should be getting 70 down and 10 up - but I get about 35 down and 4 up. Still plenty quick enough.
Getting half of what you pay for, regardless of what speeds they are is not right. Getting 102 instead of 120 isn't great but it's not as big of a deal.
By comparison we pay for 6 down but I can normally get about 7.5-8 on speedtest.
To be honest it's not really their fault that I get half of what I expected. It's fibre to the cabinet, but then copper from the cabinet to the house - so that explains why I don't get the 70/10. The only way to resolve that is to move closer to the cabinet! Those who live right by the cabinets can easily get the 70/10.
I don't know why you'd complain if you got 102mbps down. Would you really be able to tell the difference between 102 and 120? And it's really not much lower than 120 anyway.
And I don't think we specifically pay for '70/10' - we pay for BT's 'infinity' package which is fibre + unlimited download and upload. I don't think we pay for a set speed. It's just 70/10 to the *cabinets* in my town.
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Geoff
VIP Member
Here in the U.S. you pay for different speed packages. The carriers will sell you a 70/10 connection, and that's what the client should be getting at their house, not to the node. What the ISP would do in this case is increase the speed to the node to say 80/15, seeing as how by the time it reaches the customer the speed would then be at the promised 70/10 rate.
Yeah with Uverse you get a direct wire in to your house and basically you pay for them to change what speeds you can get. Our wire can deliver speeds way higher than what we get and it costs them essentially nothing to let us have a higher speed. Our house is wired for it, they just change a setting and we get higher speed. Huge rip off for us, especially considering it's I think about 50 bucks a month for what we get, maybe a little less.
Speed at work. Disappointing IMO for an IT company.
Geoff
VIP Member
At least you have a solid upload speed. Looks like you have a synchronous fiber-based service.Speed at work. Disappointing IMO for an IT company.
Really? The behaviour here is the same as where Spirit lives. The speed is what they configure the interface for at the hub. What you actually see at your modem could be less. I would have thought that's the same everywhere, no ISP I know of would consider potentially giving you more speed than what you pay for.
Geoff
VIP Member
My package is only supposed to be 150/20, but I get 170/23. Before this it was suppose to be 105/20, and it was 115/23, and before that was 50/10 and was 60/12.