Hardware & Technical Your internet connection
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If you put your phone number into a broadband checker such as Samknows that will give you an overview of what's available.
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search
The BT Infinity number checker is here;
http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband/infinity#services-checker
What you can get depends on the distance you are from the exchange and whether it's Infinity enabled. If you have a cable provider in your area they can do fibre broadband too.
What really P's me off is one of the houses I rent out in Norwich has a 40Mb/s cable, It's only 5 miles away!!
You're on Fibre Optic.
The actual official product title is Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC) which is essentially fibre optic cable from your local exchange, to one of the green BT cabinets near to your home. From that cabinet to your house you'll use the older copper wire system.
Looks good eh? But compared to 12 months ago on the same connection, I'd have been lucky to get 1MB down and 10KB up. Thankfully VM have done a lot of infrastructure work over the past year where I am.
Looks good eh? But compared to 12 months ago on the same connection, I'd have been lucky to get 1MB down and 10KB up. Thankfully VM have done a lot of infrastructure work over the past year where I am.
Looks amazing. I think you are in the same building as the Frontier/speedtest
Looks good eh? But compared to 12 months ago on the same connection, I'd have been lucky to get 1MB down and 10KB up. Thankfully VM have done a lot of infrastructure work over the past year where I am.
That must be "25.48 Mb/s". And in front, add "1" with an image editing software.
Looks amazing. I think you are in the same building as the Frontier/speedtest
"So-net ISP, which is partly owned by Sony, announced yesterday NURO package capable of reaching 2 Gb per second download and 1 Gb per second upstream bandwidth (upload). A great package available for 4980 yen, less than 39 euros." We can also live in Japan or South Korea.
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That must be "25.48 Mb/s". And in front, add "1" with an image editing software.
I did that test at 06:30 this morning. I can barely operate my coffee pot at that hour, let alone Photoshop
ADSL 6MB/s down, 0.6MB/s up. No other option where I live, that I can live with anyway. Generally very stable, but sites like youtube is completely unusable atm; have to download everything to disk and watch locally, and even downloads can take a hundred retries to complete. Seems to be the only major site I use that are broken like this though, so I don't blame my connection. Can stream realtime in 1080 from other sites without problem, youtube can't even do 320 anymore.
Since I don't play online, and will only (most likely) only do SP, I'm not worried. More worried about servers being shut down before I'm done playing, without possibility to run my own server if needed.
Since I don't play online, and will only (most likely) only do SP, I'm not worried. More worried about servers being shut down before I'm done playing, without possibility to run my own server if needed.
I'm with Plusnet and can't fault them. I've had problems with other ISPs and their warped definitions of "unlimited".
Fast internet connections are one of the very few benefits of city life (possibly the only one).
<nods> Your right there Alien and no mistake. :smilie:
I think Scotland has the worst service in the whole of the UK. Looks like I will be sticking with the singleplayer mode. The few multiplayer games I have tried are hopeless with my rubbish net connection.