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I 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 ins
by whizzkid 13y ago
I 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.