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Do these results with slow upload speeds hinder WFH-ers?
Post Your Broadband Speed.
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iandg
Legendary Member
- Location
- Dumfries and Galloway
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I was thinking back to the mid-1990s when our company upgraded their internet to 100 kilobits/second... That was shared by a workforce of around 100 people!!!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Ah yes, ISDN, that was it! I can't remember for sure if it was the 64k version or dual channel 128k version. Either way, my phone is connecting at 2,300 or 4,600 times those speeds!! (And I am paying significantly less for that than the ISDN connection used to cost.)
presta
Legendary Member
500Mb/s for £19 now.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Upload speeds are almost always significantly slower than download speeds.
Mine certainly don't hinder me WFH.
dicko
Legendary Member
- Location
- Derbyshire
Virgin Media
Virgin (nominally) 250mpbs. On work laptop up in the loft so a long way from the hub, but I have an Asus Zenwifi mesh device on each floor with a 5GHz backhaul.
Paying too much at the moment as we're out of contract and our TV package is over specced for what we actually watch. Must get round to renegotiating it!
No. The main thing that hinders WFH is the mandatory updates pushed by corporate IT that you either can't postpone, or only ever get reminded to postpone when you're on a call so you run out of chances! Or they push a bunch of driver updates without warning and when you're on a call the screen blanks because the display drivers are updating then the bluetooth drivers update and keyboard, mouse and headset suddenly stop working.
But they happen whether you're WFH or in the office!
Paying too much at the moment as we're out of contract and our TV package is over specced for what we actually watch. Must get round to renegotiating it!
No. The main thing that hinders WFH is the mandatory updates pushed by corporate IT that you either can't postpone, or only ever get reminded to postpone when you're on a call so you run out of chances! Or they push a bunch of driver updates without warning and when you're on a call the screen blanks because the display drivers are updating then the bluetooth drivers update and keyboard, mouse and headset suddenly stop working.
But they happen whether you're WFH or in the office!
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
No. The main thing that hinders WFH is the mandatory updates pushed by corporate IT that you either can't postpone, or only ever get reminded to postpone when you're on a call so you run out of chances! Or they push a bunch of driver updates without warning and when you're on a call the screen blanks because the display drivers are updating then the bluetooth drivers update and keyboard, mouse and headset suddenly stop working.
But they happen whether you're WFH or in the office!
I didn't know you worked for hte same company as me
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
I was thinking back to the mid-1990s when our company upgraded their internet to 100 kilobits/second... That was shared by a workforce of around 100 people!!!
Still mostly text based then, for which the speed would have been fine.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
They used to send out C.A.D. drawings, which weren't, so it wasn't!
IIRC, somebody used to try to send them before most people got to work, or after they went home, but sometimes priority jobs had to go out during working hours.
Management kept a close watch on internet usage. I remember the M.D. getting irate because he thought that someone was doing something iffy online every morning. That's when he was told that it was actually the C.A.D. designs being sent to subcontractors.
