Here's a quick question: how fast is your internet connection? Second question: does it make that much of a difference to your designing, developing - candlestick making?

 

Back in 2007 I was on a 100MB, in 2011 I dropped to about 12MB and now the best connection in my area (and I don't live in a cave surprisingly) is at best, 6MB - usually 4MB. Watching streaming videos can be a nightmare due to the constant buffering but everything else is liveable. I guess the only real advantage is I can test sites to see how they would look like on slow connections. Mobile is marvellous when running on WiFi...

 

I'm not an online gamer, but playing CoD and Gears of War against slower connections gave me the upperhand

Edited May 15, 201313 yr by 4li4s

Here's a quick question: how fast is your internet connection?

 

Very slow (( You can't get more than this here

 

 

 

 

Second question: does it make that much of a difference to your designing, developing - candlestick making?

 

Yes, sending files is a nightmare. Some days we haven't even got Internet for few hours! I have to use my phone's 3G when that happens, which is not the best way really.

Woah! That's not good at all! I've resorted to 3G a couple of times and it was a nightmare.

 

My inlaws live in a similar area. They used to run broadband via a satellite (ker-ching!) but a few years back their area ran some feeds through the mountains. They're probably on something stupid like 200MB or whatever the highest domestic speed is. What do they use the internet for? Email.

 

Is it your postcode/street only or is it the town/city as a whole? There are people not so far from me on 50MB but they are on a different local exchange to use, despite the same village/town! Until BT update it, we can't get higher than 6MB, but if you're getting 3MB, I can't complain.

Ill have to do a test from home, I bet it's shocking, ive managed speeds of 28k before.

 

These are the results from work anyway.

 

My inlaws live in a similar area. They used to run broadband via a satellite (ker-ching!) but a few years back their area ran some feeds through the mountains. They're probably on something stupid like 200MB or whatever the highest domestic speed is. What do they use the internet for? Email.

 

Lovely :D

 

 

 

Is it your postcode/street only or is it the town/city as a whole?

 

I believe its the whole Valleys area lol Aluzziion had a good connection through uni as far as I remember and Lyndsey had similar to mine, not sure if that was at home or at work

So Internet is pretty bad here...

I secretly like the dial-up noise, and miss it greatly

 

Bring back dial-up...

 

Enjoy

Just got fibre broadband recently, This is me connecting via wifi and up in a corner of my room.

 

 

 

But before that was lucky to get download speed of 1.5mb and upload was half of that.

 

At times my Samsung Galaxy 3G hanging out my window was a better connection

Enjoy

 

Music to my ears.

My schools network is running pretty fast

 

 

For the second question:

Most testing is localhost, so no internet connection need, well I couldn't work without internet though..

 

I always use stuff like http://lorempixel.com/ and http://cupcakeipsum.com/, so a fast internet connection would be nice

 

Cheers

Mine at home:

 

moving house soon so going to try that BT infinity...

Quite surprised that quite a few connections are this slow. I haven't done my research (nor really intending to do so, if I'm honest) but I thought the numbers would be double figures standard. Good to know, but not good to put up with really.

 

Wish BT would sort out these exchanges - I have important music videos to stream on YouTube

Hahaha I was on BT and they said I could get up to 16mb down ... engineer said 'but it's an 8mb line, not possible even plugged direct at the exchange'. I used to get a massive 4.3 down / 0.48 up on a good day. Switched to the the entry level Virgin (up to 30mb) and boom 33.31 down / 1.95mb up and it's cheaper.

 

Careful of 'infinity' by BT, the fiber only goes to the exchange before back to copper to the premises, it's only Virgin I know of that do fiber to the door. BT engineer said he installed infinity to his house, the speed halved between the exchange and the door. That said Virgin up is normally up to 10% of your download speed whereas with BT infinity it's higher.

Hahaha I was on BT and they said I could get up to 16mb down ... engineer said 'but it's an 8mb line, not possible even plugged direct at the exchange'. I used to get a massive 4.3 down / 0.48 up on a good day. Switched to the the entry level Virgin (up to 30mb) and boom 33.31 down / 1.95mb up and it's cheaper.

 

Careful of 'infinity' by BT, the fiber only goes to the exchange before back to copper to the premises, it's only Virgin I know of that do fiber to the door. BT engineer said he installed infinity to his house, the speed halved between the exchange and the door. That said Virgin up is normally up to 10% of your download speed whereas with BT infinity it's higher.

 

Unfortunately, BT has the control. We were with Virgin at our last place and it was all fiber but they can't install it in our area until BT upgrade the local exchange. Sky (not that I would use them) are successfully branching out from BT but they also have to rely on the exchange. 30MB would be great right now