Slooooowwwwww Broadband

[2sp_]

Continuing from a post in Technology, I was wondering if anyone out there has a slower Broadband speed than me -

2.34 Download
0.38 Upload

Not really looking for advice on how to improve it, just a bit of fun and healthy (if not weird) competition to see who else lives in the dark ages!

[hc4361]

Not me - 150 download and 13 upload

[berniecuddles]

your lucky 2sp we are 1.80mb and upload 0.3 supposed to be getting fibre optic promised "you will get it late 2013 still waiting!!!

[berniecuddles]

hc4361 15O !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[2sp_]

Ooo bernie, that is slow. I was thinking about installing a hamster on a wheel, see if that speeds things up.

No one likes a show off, hc. ;-)

[nescio]

luxury!
I get about 0.3 max download and something less for upload

[sherrardk]

We get 1.6 (and there are lots of us using it) - supposed to be switching to fibre something on Wednesday and should be able to get up to 40mb.

[2sp_]

Jings nescio! How do you get anything done online? That's awful!

[The Builder]

I live in a rural village only a few miles from Exeter, sp.
2.7 download, and 0.5 upload, so, similar to you.

No cable or fibre optics available, so that's the best I can get. My speed is perfectly Ok for normal use. The trouble is with "contention". (The number of users on at one time.) The exchange serves two villages and a huge rural area. After 6pm, or at weekends, everybody piles on, and that's when it all slows down.

[2sp_]

I'm green with envy, Sher.

We're in the same boat, Builder. You can tell when everyone nearby is online. Slows right down.

I do laugh when I see the BT ads showing speeds of 10,000mbps (I may be exaggerating a tad).

[lindapalmara]

Come and live down south. We're about to get VDSL

[2sp_]

linda, I am beyond jealousy...

[Prudie]

I only get 2.4 and the same upload as you, I can only begin to imagine what speeds like 60Mb are like. Actually we are quite happy about it because until a year or so ago we got 0.4 which meant youtube or any streaming stuff was unwatchable.

[2sp_]

I was just thinking the same thing, Prudie. It must be amazing to have such fast broadband. Buffering must be a distant memory for the lucky ones.

[nescio]

Just to give an example of what it is like, it takes about 4 times the runtime duration of a TV programme to download it on BBC iplayer!

[2sp_]

The worst of it is that we all pay the same prices (depending on you provider of course) for differing levels of service.

[paddywak]

Being a bit of a computer illiterate,how do I find these speeds?

[Prudie]

There are a few test around paddy, this one is quite reliable and popular
http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/

[2sp_]

paddy, there are a few links on this post -

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Question1366347.html

[ummmm]

I got download 10.97 and upload 1.96.

[Frank97]

I get something similar, about 2.4 if I'm lucky. What annoys me is when I go to watch a movie on Amazon Prime, I select HD, the speed is then checked so that the film can be streamed at a suitable speed so as not to buffer, the movie is then played in SD, but I'm still charged the HD rental price, conning gits!