Post Your Broadband Speed.

[Reynard]

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And I thought *mine* was slow at 4 mb/s

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Quite remarkably poor.

OTOH I'm consistently getting more than I pay for on my 400Mbps package - it's usually about 440-450 up/down.

 

[HLaB]

Ookla gives me slightly different numbers 1min later though.

I'm SeeTheLight which I think SKY owns.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

After 8 years of super fast speeds ’ve now got this in my new home.

Thing is, apart from large downloads, I haven’t noticed any real world difference.

 

[T4tomo]

..

 

[ColinJ]

Thing is, apart from large downloads, I haven’t noticed any real world difference.

One thing that was immediately obvious in my case was this...

I forgot to post my new speeds after fibre BB finally arrived chez Col in the summer...

I could have paid more and got even faster speeds but I don't share my bandwidth with anyone else so I settled on a 300 Mb/s package. I just checked - 302.4 Mb/s download speed, 46.3 Mb/s upload speed. Everything works wonderfully quickly now.

I was streaming the World Track Championship coverage on iPlayer on my speedy new Android tablet just now. On my TV and with my slow old BB, 10 second skips forwards and backwards took about 9.5 seconds so they were pretty useless. Now I can skip 10 seconds in about 0.1 seconds so skipping through coverage is really easy - I just tap the trackpad until something interesting happens and then resume watching coverage until things settle down again.

I tried it on YouTube. I can quickly step through videos 10 seconds at a time using the right arrow key on the tablet's keyboard case. That beats my old method of speeding videos up to get to the interesting bits.

Large downloads really are a huge improvement. Multi-GB ones that used to take an hour or more now take just a minute or two.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Mine's currently about 750Mbps downstream and 45Mbps upstream. It's a big improvement from 30 years ago, when speeds were in bps not Mbps.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

One thing that was immediately obvious in my case was this...


Large downloads really are a huge improvement. Multi-GB ones that used to take an hour or more now take just a minute or two.

Skipping on Sky Stream, YouTube etc isn’t notably different

 

[ColinJ]

Skipping on Sky Stream, YouTube etc isn’t notably different

I used to get 16 Mb/s but over the years that was slowly reduced to 5-7 Mb/s. Skipping ahead 10 seconds on YouTube was often taking 8 or 9 seconds and was therefore worse than just watching in real time!

With 300 Mb/s I can skip ahead almost instantly, which makes it very useful.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

I used to get 16 Mb/s but over the years that was slowly reduced to 5-7 Mb/s. Skipping ahead 10 seconds on YouTube was often taking 8 or 9 seconds and was therefore worse than just watching in real time!

With 300 Mb/s I can skip ahead almost instantly, which makes it very useful.

I can imagine those speeds would be problematic. I’m consistently at, or around 55 Mb/s which works well.

 

[presta]

I forgot to post my new speeds after fibre BB finally arrived chez Col in the summer...

I could have paid more and got even faster speeds but I don't share my bandwidth with anyone else so I settled on a 300 Mb/s package. I just checked - 302.4 Mb/s download speed, 46.3 Mb/s upload speed. Everything works wonderfully quickly now.

I was streaming the World Track Championship coverage on iPlayer on my speedy new Android tablet just now. On my TV and with my slow old BB, 10 second skips forwards and backwards took about 9.5 seconds so they were pretty useless. Now I can skip 10 seconds in about 0.1 seconds so skipping through coverage is really easy - I just tap the trackpad until something interesting happens and then resume watching coverage until things settle down again.

I tried it on YouTube. I can quickly step through videos 10 seconds at a time using the right arrow key on the tablet's keyboard case. That beats my old method of speeding videos up to get to the interesting bits.

I'm hooked on one month mobile contracts, so I've been extremely reluctant to get in for a 1-2 year contract without some evidence that fibre makes some real world difference, but this bugs me, so I might give it a whiz. Skipping back and forth on catch-up TV is an utter PITA.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

We changed from NowTV landline broaband to a bargaintastic 5G Three mobile SIM provided by Scancom in a TPLink NX200 router around Xmas, our speeds have increased from ~25/6Mbps to typically ~320/20Mbps, still shocks me downloading games almost 20x quicker!