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'Fastest ever' broadband passes speed test
- whizzkid 13y agoI don't remember the last time I complained about the internet connection being slow actually.. It looks like hardware department is not doing its homework instead. Hard drives, and cpus are the limitations most of the time for me.
- Dakos 13y agoAs someone living in rural England who rarely exceeds 300Kbs I respectfully disagree.
- Fuxy 13y agoI believe you're one of the few people who have that issue. For most of us the internet speed is the biggest problem. My home internet speed has some very big issued on peak hours. It's not unusual for the connection to be unusable for an hour. Luckily peak time is usually when everybody is home from work and i don't really need to use it at that time.
- whizzkid 13y agoI see your point, me living in Sweden may explain why i never had internet speed problem. Here, almost everyone gets 10mbit if not 100mbit. (And it actually is 10mbit) But still, with bad infrastructure, you will not gain any more speed with 1tb internet connection either. Im guessing your provider tells you that they are providing 10mbit connection to you, which is a lie according to what you explained, right?
- dijit 13y agoYou living in sweden is why you've never complained. BT is outright shocking (probably infinite is ok, however this is in response to Virgin deploying fiber- and they're directly competing- thus! in area's with fiber coverage you get a choice of BT or Virgin, in the other areas.. well, sucks to be you!) I get, on average 150KB/s with around 1s latency at all times (when it goes lower than 1s I celebrate)[0]. I live in the tech part of london, seriously confused as to how this is acceptable, but a leased line to bring me up to your speeds would cost me more than I earn in a month (I checked). [0] http://www.darkscience.net/quotes/126/ http://www.darkscience.net/quotes/126/
- DanBC 13y agoI would love a guaranteed speed and contention, even if that is much slower than theoretical max speed.
- aidenn0 13y agoI spent some time working for a company that made switches that would do that (Guaranteed minimum, but the sum of the maximum allowed speeds could exceed the link speed). There was no interest from anyone who sold to consumers, but business ISPs liked it. The perception in residential is that customers don't understand what they want and can't go somewhere else, so you slap the biggest speed number on it that won't get you sued and then provide them crap service.
- kjjw 13y agoAs someone living in urban England, receiving a constant 60mbit/s, I completely agree!
- Already__Taken 13y agoYeah I really don't see how you've formed that opinion, My connection isn't even at least 10Mb reliably. Within a couple of years I could put 10Gb ethernet in my house for not insane money. My internet connect would then be 0.0001 the speed of that. Why would anyone want that? Well would could all move to ipv6, use modern web browsers with webrtc and p2p stream iplayer like a torrent stream. That must substantially reduce the BBC IT costs therefore its licencing requirements.
- jamesjguthrie 13y agoAs someone living nearly 30 miles from the nearest city (Glasgow) with a constant 120Mb connection I completely agree!
- linker3000 13y agoAs someeq451"£$iop [NO CARRIER]
- awjr 13y agoAs a BT Infinity (Fibre) customer I've realised the limiting factor for me is the fact I'm connecting over WiFi. Speed tests top out at around 50Mb and not 76Mb on my laptop. All my consoles/players are hooked up via cable. I do wonder how many complaints they get from people complaining they only get 50Mb and not the advertised 76Mb.
- walshemj 13y agoum this is a core telco network fibre link and has about much relevance to "broadband" as a picture of cute kittens. Subs eh thy hook up their hipster mac book air to a airport hub and suddenly they are a CCIE level guru.
- Dakos 13y agoAgreed it's more of a technical exercise than anything else. The achieved speed is irrelevant. The techniques may see some use in the future.
- skyshine 13y ago"The test was conducted on a 410km (255-mile) link" I know I'm from the North, but last I checked Ipswich was practically next door to London. Did they route it via Manchester or something.
- InTheSwiss 13y agoThis confused me too. Ipswich to Victoria is about 85 miles by road. Anyone got any more details on the connection route?
- jackgavigan 13y agoIt'll be a loopback on their Adastral Park -> Colchester –> Basildon –> BT Tower link. See http://indico.uknof.org.uk/getFile.py/access?contribId=2&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=25 http://indico.uknof.org.uk/getFile.py/access?contribId=2&res...
- nextw33k 13y agoInteresting that they are working on a hardware solution to a software problem. Multicast support would cure the majority of the streaming and torrent issues if the ISP's enabled it.
- goodcanadian 13y ago"Cure" might be too strong of a word, but it would certainly help immensely.
- chronomex 13y agoIf I'm not mistaken, the BBC streams to the UK in HD with multicast only, creating pressure from the customers towards the ISPs supporting it properly.
- sdfjkl 13y agoMeanwhile, in rural England, people desperate for internet access are bundling four DSL lines at 1.4 MBit/s downstream each. BT has re-established its monopoly with being the only provider of FTTC, a major step back from the LLU days of ADSL. But none of this matters, because even if you have fast internet, the government is working hard on expanding the existing censorship to make it useless (just this week folks couldn't download an update to the popular game League of Legends because it contained a file named VarusExpirationTimer.luaobj).
- orf 13y agoNot quite: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/386665/league-of-legends-game-update-not-blocked-by-isp-filters http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/386665/league-of-legend...
- sdfjkl 13y agoNot yet.
- rayiner 13y ago> Meanwhile, in rural England, people desperate for internet access are bundling four DSL lines at 1.4 MBit/s downstream each. Then they should move out of rural England. BT, etc, aren't stupid. If people in rural England could pay enough to offset the cost of running cable or fiber out to rural England, then BT would build that infrastructure. But that's clearly not the case.
- sdfjkl 13y agoAlas, rural is pretty much anywhere outside a few city centers, and even in London there are parts where you can get stuck with an unstable 4 MBit/s DSL link (from personal experience).
- clarkdave 13y agoI live in Bethnal Green (just down the road from "Tech City") and our entire apartment block can't get fibre, just a measly 4Mb/s. I don't know if BT is to blame, or the building itself, but it sure makes finding a flat to rent a bit of a lottery...
- rafski 13y agoLondon will always have the best connection — it's a major HFT hub.
- dijit 13y agoReally, I can see the BT tower from where I live, I'm lucky to get < 200k/s. my mother lives 100 miles to the north (coventry) and gets 5MB/s for free, and it actually -IS- 5MB/s (free because of tv/phone package, and it's with Virgin)
- gaius 13y agoHFT doesn't happen over the Internet. It happens between boxes within the same datacentre.
- neilmcrae 13y agoYes correct it's a loop fr Ipswich to BT tower and back.
- qubyte 13y agoI live within walking distance of the BT Tower, and the maximum I can get is < 1Mbps...
- aidenn0 13y ago> said speeds of 1.4 terabits per second were achieved during their joint test - enough to send 44 uncompressed HD films a second. Someone did their math wrong. One second of 4:2:2 720p@24fps video is about 353.89Mb A feature film is about 110 minutes, which works out to 2.3 Tbit; this can't even send one HD video per second.