I was there for 7 years mate, I feel your pain. I live in sticksville in the Cotswolds. Luckily a private company fibred the whole area including all the villages and hamlets. I literally told BT to go and do one [yesnod]
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I was there for 7 years mate, I feel your pain. I live in sticksville in the Cotswolds. Luckily a private company fibred the whole area including all the villages and hamlets. I literally told BT to go and do one [yesnod]
I have been on the BT unlimited broadband for a yonk and a quarter - OK it is only FTC and the copper-run is a joke but it is a solid reliable 50+M down 15+M up. Good quality streaming of movies etc so don't get put off @OP you will enjoy your new service as long as you keep tabs on it and cajole them into serving you well.
(I have this lovely box for cable services on the wall of my apartment, installed during refurbishment of this Victorian mansion 20 years ago, connected via co-ax, just like all the other apartments but unfortunately the other ends of the co-ax cables are to be found in gurt big sorry loops of cables lying all bereft in the cellars as the local cable company went bust {NTL?} and there is no plan for their inheritor {Virgin?} to provide cable to our locale.)
(I have this lovely box for cable services on the wall of my apartment, installed during refurbishment of this Victorian mansion 20 years ago, connected via co-ax, just like all the other apartments but unfortunately the other ends of the co-ax cables are to be found in gurt big sorry loops of cables lying all bereft in the cellars as the local cable company went bust {NTL?} and there is no plan for their inheritor {Virgin?} to provide cable to our locale.)
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I just got a fibre upgrade last month. I live in a new build it's just under three years old. BT were supposed to have fibre to the premises ready to go back in the summer of 2015. They told me 300 meg down and 30 meg up. I get 313 meg down and 32 meg up. I am very happy.
I get a true download speed of 38.5 MB a second. Not uploaded yet so I guess I got like 4 MB up. My old ADSL was only 7.5 MB bandwidth which was a little under one megabyte a second actual download speed. Painful.
I get a true download speed of 38.5 MB a second. Not uploaded yet so I guess I got like 4 MB up. My old ADSL was only 7.5 MB bandwidth which was a little under one megabyte a second actual download speed. Painful.
Thanks !
In my region, the regional council has decided to put the fiber in all the villages (800 villages, I believe).
Villages of 100 inhabitants as villages of several thousand
My village (small town) has 5000 inhabitants
It's great that the countryside is not forgotten
Although we have several years of delay compared to the big cities which are fibered since for a long time
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Excellent !
I remember when I started with 512 Kb / s and later 1 Mb / s (Early 2000s)
The speed difference was already noticeable between the two
Then came the 8 Mb / s which changed the life
For the ADSL and the VDSL, I had the chance to live at 300 meters from DSLAM
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I think, and I'm mostly guessing, that 55Mbs will be pretty much all I need for the foreseeable future (and for as long as I live in this house).
I doubt we'll get FTTP, or gigabit internet anytime in the next decade.
But a 25Gb game will take minutes instead of days.
And Netflix will probably max out at HD (not paying for 4k, not that fussed... Lol).
And, we'll be able to Google things while watching Netflix, and not bring everything to a grinding halt!
So while 55Mbs is 'meh' to most, to me (and everyone on our street) it's like when broadband first launched over dial up.
I'll be quite content, until games hit 100+GB, and at that time, I'll need a new hard drive. Lol
Tempted to sign up for Origin Access now I can actually download the games.
I don't really play ED anymore, but it would be good to see if the transitions are any better.
I doubt we'll get FTTP, or gigabit internet anytime in the next decade.
But a 25Gb game will take minutes instead of days.
And Netflix will probably max out at HD (not paying for 4k, not that fussed... Lol).
And, we'll be able to Google things while watching Netflix, and not bring everything to a grinding halt!
So while 55Mbs is 'meh' to most, to me (and everyone on our street) it's like when broadband first launched over dial up.
I'll be quite content, until games hit 100+GB, and at that time, I'll need a new hard drive. Lol
Tempted to sign up for Origin Access now I can actually download the games.
I don't really play ED anymore, but it would be good to see if the transitions are any better.
I think, and I'm mostly guessing, that 55Mbs will be pretty much all I need for the foreseeable future (and for as long as I live in this house).
I doubt we'll get FTTP, or gigabit internet anytime in the next decade.
But a 25Gb game will take minutes instead of days.
And Netflix will probably max out at HD (not paying for 4k, not that fussed... Lol).
And, we'll be able to Google things while watching Netflix, and not bring everything to a grinding halt!
So while 55Mbs is 'meh' to most, to me (and everyone on our street) it's like when broadband first launched over dial up.
I'll be quite content, until games hit 100+GB, and at that time, I'll need a new hard drive. Lol
Tempted to sign up for Origin Access now I can actually download the games.
I don't really play ED anymore, but it would be good to see if the transitions are any better.
Yes. Do not doubt
With 55 Mb / s you have a very fast and sufficient connection for internet, telephony and HD television
Your web pages will be displayed most of the time instantly
And often you will not have time to prepare the tea during downloads and uploads
You go from a country road to a highway
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55 MB bandwidth is probably around 7 MB a sec download speed. Still very fast. get ready for your hard drive to slow down the updates, especially on Steam. I get a lot of disk activity and the download stops while the disk catches up, then the download starts again. Bear that in mind before you call your ISP with complaints of slow downloads. Yes even on an SSD. Although I hear those super fast SSD drives don't suffer from it.I think, and I'm mostly guessing, that 55Mbs will be pretty much all I need for the foreseeable future (and for as long as I live in this house).
I doubt we'll get FTTP, or gigabit internet anytime in the next decade.
But a 25Gb game will take minutes instead of days.
And Netflix will probably max out at HD (not paying for 4k, not that fussed... Lol).
And, we'll be able to Google things while watching Netflix, and not bring everything to a grinding halt!
So while 55Mbs is 'meh' to most, to me (and everyone on our street) it's like when broadband first launched over dial up.
I'll be quite content, until games hit 100+GB, and at that time, I'll need a new hard drive. Lol
Tempted to sign up for Origin Access now I can actually download the games.
I don't really play ED anymore, but it would be good to see if the transitions are any better.
I've been "getting fibre" for the last few years, they dig some holes and put cones round them, then fill them in again a few months later after water erosion starts eating away under the road and nothing actually changes about internet speeds. They always announce it as a triumphant success in the papers.
It's become quite a regular thing.
It's become quite a regular thing.
The speed of the upload will be very useful also to make backup of your hard drive towards the cloud
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But have you got Milk?
Lactose intolerant.
Don't forget, you will need a GB LAN adapter or the best speed/bandwidth you will get is whatever your current LAN adapter delivers, usually 100 Mbps).
It's here!
My download speed is 67mb/s on day 1. It'll probably change as the line settles, but that is amazing! (By my standard of 4-5Mb/s)
I joined Origin Access, and downloaded Dragon Age Inquisition in just over an hour...!
I don't even know if it's any good, but I downloaded it anyway, and Titanfall 2, Mass Effect 3, and Andromeda are next!
Unfortunately, the switch was poorly timed, and my Sky broadband went off at precisely 8am, and my BT fibre didn't come until 3.30pm, which didn't leave any time to actually play DAI before having to leave for work. Lol
But, I did watch Netflix for 10 minutes, and, I was able to browse Instagram.
AT THE SAME TIME!
Amazing.
Origin Access is good btw, with one massive, ridiculous problem I demand EA fix immediately.
Dungeon Keeper 2 doesn't work.
My download speed is 67mb/s on day 1. It'll probably change as the line settles, but that is amazing! (By my standard of 4-5Mb/s)
I joined Origin Access, and downloaded Dragon Age Inquisition in just over an hour...!
I don't even know if it's any good, but I downloaded it anyway, and Titanfall 2, Mass Effect 3, and Andromeda are next!
Unfortunately, the switch was poorly timed, and my Sky broadband went off at precisely 8am, and my BT fibre didn't come until 3.30pm, which didn't leave any time to actually play DAI before having to leave for work. Lol
But, I did watch Netflix for 10 minutes, and, I was able to browse Instagram.
AT THE SAME TIME!
Amazing.
Origin Access is good btw, with one massive, ridiculous problem I demand EA fix immediately.
Dungeon Keeper 2 doesn't work.
Congratulations ! Commander
And good web browsing
And good web browsing