Post Your Broadband Speed.

[Bonefish Blues]

255Mbps up and 25 down. I think it's ridiculously over specced.

I've got a long cable...

 

[Over the Ord]

I’d say good but we have periods where web pages won’t load.

 

[DRHysted]

Not bad considering I pay for 250.

 

[presta]

70Mbps according to Smarty, 150 according to Huawei.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Installed in November FTTH. This is the WiFi speed my phone is seeing. I did plug in the Ethernet to my laptop once and was getting 900+ symmetrical but I don't bother as WiFi is more than sufficient.

 

[cougie uk]

Seems ample. I'd love to know if we do need these super speeds ?

 

[ianrauk]

Seems ample. I'd love to know if we do need these super speeds ?

I don't think we do.
We have 35meg. That's more then ample for us 2 at home and for whoever visits. Phones, computers, Smart TV, streamimg netflix etc.

 

[cougie uk]

I don't think we do.
We have 35meg. That's more then ample for us 2 at home and for whoever visits. Phones, computers, Smart TV, streamimg netflix etc.

Aah but the more the speed the higher the cost.

I'm thinking of getting a 5g thingy and a cheap contract when it's available here. Even my 4g is over 100mrg. Screw Virgin.

 

[presta]

I'm thinking of getting a 5g thingy and a cheap contract when it's available here. Even my 4g is over 100mrg. Screw Virgin.

My 4g router is doing 9Mb/s at the moment, which is about typical, and slower but cheaper than the copper line. It varies from 20Mb/s on a good test, to 500k at worst.

 

[Electric_Andy]

We pay virgin for up to 400mb/sec which we do get in the lounge, but it doesn't even reach into the conservatory which is 30ft away. The VM superhub are notoriously bad, I tried a TPLinks router but it didn't work at all. So had to go get a powerline adapter which is only just adequate to do my work from home. The other complaint with VM is that the signal does tend to drop out completely for 30 seconds a few times a week

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Ok but the bullet and went to Virgin for WiFi Seems fast enough so far fingers crossed Quick question though in the back bedroom upstairs,furthest away from router not as good,can I buy a extender to plug in ? Saw some for 10/15 quid is it as simple as just plugging it in.
Wouldn't normally bother but it's my teenage daughters bedroom and interfering with her WiFi could be a fate worse than death !

What package are you on?

It’s worth calling them to see if you qualify for their guarantee:

Our WiFi guarantee with WiFi Max ​

With WiFi Max, we want to make sure you’ll enjoy download speeds of at least 30Mbps in every room – if you don’t, we’ll send you one of our signal-boosting mesh WiFi Pods. If that doesn’t do the job, we’ll send you up to a total of 3.

We’re so confident in this technology that we’ve launched our WiFi guarantee. This means if you don’t get download speeds of at least 30Mbps in every room, and our WiFi Pods don’t do the trick, we’ll pop £100 credit onto your next bill.

 

[StuAff]

Plusnet FTTC. Down from 76mbps a few years ago (the perils of a shared connection). Contract up in May, so I'll be going for fibre, probably 900mbps or more. It's the same price so it would be daft not to, especially as I'll finally be able to download the entire Steam library (recentish games can take four or five hours...if you're lucky).
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[Adam4868]

What package are you on?

It’s worth calling them to see if you qualify for their guarantee:

Our WiFi guarantee with WiFi Max ​

With WiFi Max, we want to make sure you’ll enjoy download speeds of at least 30Mbps in every room – if you don’t, we’ll send you one of our signal-boosting mesh WiFi Pods. If that doesn’t do the job, we’ll send you up to a total of 3.

We’re so confident in this technology that we’ve launched our WiFi guarantee. This means if you don’t get download speeds of at least 30Mbps in every room, and our WiFi Pods don’t do the trick, we’ll pop £100 credit onto your next bill.

Had a Virgin engineer come round to check it out after I complained....surprising what a phone call to cancel will do ! I was in my cooling off period anyway.
Came round the next day and ended up with a upgraded router ? Did the trick anyway and I've had no problem or complaints since.Get this speed all over the house now.... presume it's good ? Streams the football with no circle of death now anyway 😁

 

[StuAff]

Plusnet FTTC. Down from 76mbps a few years ago (the perils of a shared connection). Contract up in May, so I'll be going for fibre, probably 900mbps or more. It's the same price so it would be daft not to, especially as I'll finally be able to download the entire Steam library (recentish games can take four or five hours...if you're lucky).
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Couple of CityFibre installers were here this morning, an hour later they were done (some of their colleagues did a survey & ran the fibre over from the telegraph pole two or three weeks before). Connection up and running before they'd even driven off. It's ever so slightly quicker.

(£25 a month. Plusnet would be £27.99 for another 18 months at the same speed).

 

[StuAff]

Seems ample. I'd love to know if we do need these super speeds ?

I don't think we do.
We have 35meg. That's more then ample for us 2 at home and for whoever visits. Phones, computers, Smart TV, streamimg netflix etc.

I'm just putting together a presentation for my local Apple user group about getting this new connection and what you can do with it.
One key point you missed, the price: Toob is £29 (for new connections from mid-May) for 900mbps. Many other fibre providers (on CityFibre or other networks, even Openreach) have similar deals. My renewal deal with Plusnet, for the same 50-56 mpbs I was getting, was £27.99 (my now-lapsing price was £36, the renewal price no longer included phone). Even if you never see the difference in having a much faster connection- and you would- it's cheaper. Win-win. Or, as I'm putting it in my talk:

"Do I need this?
No, no you don’t (but you do want it)
Will it really be much faster?
Frankly, much of the time, you won’t notice much of a difference, if any at all. Email, web browsing, Zoom calls, video streaming- even 8K on YouTube, let alone 4K…if you have a fast enough connection for this now, 900mbps won’t do better. If you can’t play that video/handle that task, it’ll be down to your device not your connection. And if that file you want to download is hosted on a service that can’t or won’t give you that kind of speed, it’ll still be slow- or less slow, your connection might no longer be the slowest part of the chain.

And it doesn’t matter."

It's as if you could buy a (insert whatever bike you'd love but can't afford here) for the same price or less as whatever you actually bought in practice. And these connections will only get faster.