Is This Broadband Speed Ok, Fast/medium?

[Rtaxron]

Just had this e-mail from EE, and wondering if its OK, Thanks.

Download speeds of between 6.50 Mb/sec and 15.00 Mb/sec. Your Minimum Guaranteed Download Speed will be 3.50 Mb/sec.

[fender62]

i get 37.9 Mbps download and 9.3 Mbps upload

[fender62]

sorry with talktalk

[jno]

14 download and 1 upload with Sky. (I accidentally clicked on Virgin first but got the same result.)

[webbo3]

Just did a test with Virgin.

1. Download 220.27 up 12.35

2.Download 219.80 up 12.37

3. Download 219.68 up 12.15

[Prudie]

It's at best OK, certainly not fast and nowhere near what you'd expect if you had fibreoptic. I don't think you'd notice it as slow though unless you download films and games etc.

[mikey4444]

I am getting the same as Fender.

RT....is this a wifi connection, via your telephone line at home, or a Mobile connection ?

[RATTER15]

I get 40.9 Mbps download and 9.9 Mbps upload

[Rtaxron]

## RT....is this a wifi connection, via your telephone line at home, or a Mobile connection ? ##

Its EE telephone line Mikey, who I am going with in 2 weeks from Sky, for £25.50 unlimited calls + broadband.

They said its as fast as Sky, but they are bound to say that aren't they?

[zebo]

When I contacted Sky about the slowness of our broadband she couldn't believe we could get anything, it was so slow or, as she called it, as near to 0 as it can get. Welcome to Norfolk, no sign of fibre optic, that seems to be reserved for areas which already have a far better service than we get.

[zebo]

Just run a test, 1.2 mb down, 0.54 mb up. Looks pathetic.

[Rtaxron]

## ust run a test, 1.2 mb down, 0.54 mb up. Looks pathetic.##

How do you run a test zebo, had no luck on my sky account?

[alavahalf]

Forget your sky a/c ... run speedtest..

http://www.speedtest.net/

[Togo]

Pulling 51.03 and 9.68. Mind you there are 2 mobile phones, a sky wifi adapter, a wireless printer and my music centre hooked up. BT Infinity.

[Buenchico]

Rtaxron:
You appear to have (or have been offered) an 'ADSL 2+' connection. It's faster (by a factor of 2) than the 'ADSL Max' connections which most households had (simply because ADSL Max was the standard product sold to other ISPs by BT Wholesale) before fibre connections became widespread.

These days many people regard any type of ADSL connection as 'old-fashioned', and/or 'low tech', with fibre connections having become the norm. However the needs of the particular household using the service need to be taken into account when deciding whether they've got a 'good' or 'poor' internet connection.

For example, I've got an ADSL 2+ connection (giving me around 10 Mbps up and 1 Mbps down) and I'm happy to stick with it. There's only me in the house and the most I'm likely to need from my broadband connection, at any one time, is to stream from Now TV while browsing the web at the same time. My connection can cope with that easily. (The only reason I might want a faster connection in the future would be if I decided that I wanted to upload lots of big video files to sites like Youtube). If I paid extra for a fibre connection at the moment, I'd hardly notice any difference.

However a household where there are three teenagers all trying to watch streamed video content simultaneously, while Mum syncs her business accounts to her online backup service and Dad is playing online video games, definitely needs a fibre connection (giving perhaps a 25 Mbps download speed, as a bare minimum).

So, if you're on your own (and won't be uploading lots of big files to Youtube, etc), what you've been offered is 'good'. However if you live with a big family (or simply have loads of grandkids visiting you at once, all wanting to borrow your wi-fi), it's 'poor'

[Togo]

Kme Webbo. Are you on the Starship Enterprise?

[fiction-factory]

Back on the RTAxron sign in again Trt? i thought you had returned to the trt ID yesterday.
Anyway, although you say the telephone line is EE I am not sure that matters- I have been with several providers for my home phone service but they all use the same wires as when it was provided by BT. It would be good if could dispense with home phones- I pretty much only use mine for the broadband connection not for calls

[webbo3]

Togo, Virgin fibre.

[Togo]

Noted Webbo. Impressive.

[Baldric]

Last time I checked mine with BT, it was D/L 43.7 . . U/L 17.6, seems you are not doing too well.

[sunny-dave]

I pay just under £30 for virgin broadband - no phone, no tv - it's the only game in town here (no landline fibre in the foreseeable future), but it is very quick ...

110mbps down, 7mbps up, 16ms ping

[ apparently soon to be upgraded (for free) to 150mbps ]