• Concern at broadband speed claims
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[QUOTE=M2k3;28382929]The problem is that "up to" is vague and can literally mean anything. When paying monthly for a service you shouldn't be forced to only receive "up to" a the amount they advertise. You wouldn't recieve [i]up to[/i] a certain amount of water/electricity/gas. I know networks and the internet in general is a hell of a lot more complex than that but IPS's are just using the whole "up to" phenomenon to cheap out on infrastructure and pocket the profits instead of bettering their aging networks.[/QUOTE] In regards to the "forced to", some things are outside of peoples' control, like dist. from exchange and quality of copper. Well, with ADSL I guess. I suppose an idea would be to have the price advertised as being the most you'll pay, and depending on the speed you'd receive, you'd pay less.
Here we go with the speed test spam.... :sigh:
[QUOTE=markg06;28382279]Most of the adverts I see and hear advertise "up to" whatever speed not "you will get this speed"[/QUOTE] Thats so you complain about it they can say that they could but not have to do it.
This IS. Good. I'm paying 2mbps download speed since I don't download a lot of stuff, and the wankers give me 250kbps maximum download speed.
[QUOTE=Jumbo_Grill;28383541]This IS. Good. I'm paying 2mbps download speed since I don't download a lot of stuff, and the wankers give me 250kbps maximum download speed.[/QUOTE] You sure you don't mean 250KB/s? Because 2Mbit = roughly 250KB/s
Got around 30-40mbps on my 50mbps connection with Virgin. At home now though I get 1.5mbps maybe 2mbps if I'm lucky. Rural area combined with the incompetence going into the construction of this house is to blame, it would be 3mbps if they didn't mess it up. That's not the ISPs fault, but a bigger push into rural areas would be great. To combat the complaints, they just make the UP TO in bigger and bolder fonts so people take notice.
Well they've been saying this for about two years now, labour brought a special tax on phone lines to support BT's plan to transfer the entire countries network from copper to fibre, however the new government took that support away so theres been massive delays with it.
[QUOTE=M2k3;28383704]You sure you don't mean 250KB/s? Because 2Mbit = roughly 250KB/s[/QUOTE] Whoops. What I meant was that i'm paying for a "stable" 2000 kilobytes per second maximum download speed (what it should be) and I'm getting an unstable connection of ~~250 kilobytes per second. Sometimes 200, sometimes 150.
'Bout goddamned time :toot:
What they say: "Up to 20Mb" What they mean: "Less than 20Mb"
[QUOTE=lionheart1066;28383904]Well they've been saying this for about two years now, labour brought a special tax on phone lines to support BT's plan to transfer the entire countries network from copper to fibre, however the new government took that support away so theres been massive delays with it.[/QUOTE] The problem is currently is that 3/4 of london is on fiber, the north west, north east and northern exchanges are on fiber, some towns are now on fiber but not a lot, the rest of the country is still on centuries old copper. That bottleneck.
[QUOTE=MasterG;28379097]Promised: 4000kb/s Delivered: 700kb/s I live just outside london, it's hardly a remote area. [editline]2nd March 2011[/editline] That's really bad. I look at you Americans with ridiculous speeds with your huge country, and we can't get over 6Mbps[/QUOTE] Lol you idiot the US has a lower speed average than the UK
Ever since I've moved house we've been stuck on cable and using BT and my Internet speed is not particularly great. :saddowns:
yeah internet speeds are weird. America is really slow but I guess I can wait for files.
[QUOTE=CapsAdmin;28378832]I mentioned this some time ago, and it seems like it's one of those things no one cares until they notice it isn't there a difference between MBs and Mbs ? the lowercase b is byte or something[/QUOTE] b stands for bit B stands for Byte 1 Byte = 8 bits 1 MegaByte = 1,024 KiloBytes 1 KiloByte = 1,024 Bytes Therefore: 1 MegaByte = 1024^2 Bytes = 1,048,576 Bytes = 8,388,608 bits 8,388,608 bits = ~8,389 Kilobits, = ~8.4 Megabits So 1.0 MB/s is about 8.4 Mbps
8meg line here. 50-100kb/s received.
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