ISPs failed to deliver advertised speeds to over 15 million UK households
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Virgin Media here too. We pay for 60Mbps which was upgraded for free to 100Mbps. Usually get ~70Mbps
However, this comes and goes depending on when students are back in the city. In the past, following the summer break, the speed has dropped to < 1Mbps. After months of complaining they fixed it and we get near enough the speed we pay for.
Man I remember the good old days of my adolescence, where the fastest rate we ever got was 800kb/s if we were lucky.
We've upgraded to fiber-optic since, and it's a vast improvement, but it still barely scrapes 4.5mb/s at the best of times and usually hangs around 1.5.
Oh and let's not forget the recent filters too. I had to jump through a bunch of hoops just to hop onto FP. TalkTalk are so completely full of shit.
There's no excuse. They say factors beyond their control supposedly prohibit them from giving you their advertised speed.
I bought a package for 7 MB/s. I only got around 3.5 MB/s and they couldn't help me. So I upgraded to 14 MB/s, and I finally got the 7 MB/s average I was looking for.
I'm sure the regulators will sort this out like theyre know to sort everything out quickly and effectively
also everyone on sky who gets shit internet deserves it for supporting the murdoch empire.
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I have BT Infinity Unlimited 2. Up to 76Mb/s.
I live in north west Kent, the closest you can get to London without actually being London.
Still better than all you with your single digit speeds, but the speedtest lies, I don't even get an average of 2MB/s (16Mb/s) when downloading from my repos.
My connection keeps dropping out all of the time, i'm lucky i get on at all.
[QUOTE=TheAdmiester;48017665]I'm with Virgin Media and I've got absolutely no complaints. Our claimed speed is 100Mbit, we normally either get that or around 110Mbit. Peak times can bring us down to 50-70 or so but that's expected, explained and the 100Mbit is advertised as "up to", not guaranteed. Great when you're using a service that can actually max it out like Steam.[/QUOTE]
This is the same for me.
I'm on Virgin's fastest deal they have, we get around 160Mbit and it's almost constant.
It's quite amazing how many countries are still connected on old hardware. From an economical standpoint, you'd think that the US, China and UK would be well-connected. But they're not even in the [URL="http://uk.businessinsider.com/fastest-internet-connection-speeds-2015-5?r=US"]top[/URL].
Late last year, a [URL="http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/192929-255tbps-worlds-fastest-network-could-carry-all-the-internet-traffic-single-fiber"]255Tbps fibre cable[/URL] was invented - which I believe will solve many issues we have today. Connection to Australia wouldn't be so bad in case we hooked them up to our network with one of those cables.
I'm on standard fiber in Sweden. Promised 150-250 Mbit download and 1-10 Mbit upload and this is my speedtest:
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I've just upgraded to 1Gbit and waiting for delivery, looks promising so far!
Huh maybe this should also apply to Portugal?
I should have like 20mbps of speed, but because apparently my zone sucks, I get like 13
I have east link internet and I'm guaranteed 40mbps but I get 39mbps which isn't too bad.
I thought speedtest dickwaving was a bannable offense
advertised speeds are only half of the problem from what i have seen. [B]im also a bit sketchy of surveys like this because most people seem to not differentiate between bits and bytes.[/B]
we had no issues with BT in my rural hometown, getting 70 or so mbps out of the 80 advertised, but my parents just moved houses to a bit out of town and on the same fiber package they get about 20mbps down.
BT do FTTC (fiber to cabinet) as it would be vastly expensive and a logistical nightmare to redo cabling to every house in the country, but in cases like above, stupid cabinet placement (houses being 200m+ from their serving cabinet) causes a sharp drop-off on connection speed due to the copper cable bottleneck.
the bigger concern i'd say is stability in a lot of areas. im fortunate to have had stable connections wherever i go, but i know a lot of people that have good connections which are incredibly unstable and suffer constant weird issues and cutouts multiple times a day, which is really frustrating.
Ookla speedtest.net reports the speed I was advertised, the other speedcheckers report much lower :v:
[QUOTE=Flash_Fire;48025026]Ookla speedtest.net reports the speed I was advertised, the other speedcheckers report much lower :v:[/QUOTE]
Not all speedcheckers have good speed from their end to yours. Either that or your ISP is artificially boosting speed to ookla.
At least you brits have some hope of change in that system. Over here, we're just barely getting started on getting ISPs to do what they're paid for.
This was last year but for what it's worth. I was guaranteed 6-8mb/s download but I was getting around 200kb/s. We recently got fibre installed in the area so it's all working now, getting our guarenteed 70-80mb/s dl.
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