The new Call Of Duty is apparently 175GB. So at 25Mb/s it'll take you almost 17 hours!! Wait... you also have a 200GB data cap?!?! But that would only leave you with 25GB for the rest of the month! Australians need to start running some cables... ASAP! When COD is beyond your networks capabilities, that's when you know you're in trouble! It's COD lol. x'D
I feel for you! I've moved to a flat in Exeter UK back in 2016, where I didn't check the available internet for that block, because it was a lot closer to the city centre... all the decent services went around that block, and the fastest available one was a price gauging BT shite, I ended up with a 6Mbps connection for 6 months, after having 100Mbps for over a year...;)) I understand to be stuck with 6Mbps for 6 months is a lot better than being stuck with 25Mbps for Life.:((
i pledged that i would vote for anybody who promised to deliver gigabit internet everywhere in the UK asap.......however, 8 years is not 'asap' in my mind so i don't have to vote for that clown.
Totally for a video on your network overhaul! Further stoked, that you also use your provider router in modem/passthrough mode! Most people give me looks, if i tell them about..
Wow. Your speed is exactly 100 times faster than mine.. lol! Well not really "lol", probably more like "col" because I'm crying pretty loudly right now..
Hey Lauren. Congrats on finally hitting 100k subs. I'm so happy for you and fair play for sticking with it especially with all the shite you've gone through in the last couple of years
You can multitask :D It's really not that much of any improvement over say 100mb, it' just nice, that it. However 100mb is a a fukload improvement over 10mb it goes from just about usuable to nearly perfect.
@@jondonnelly3 Lol wut? 1gb is way better than 100mb lol. for example a 150GB game took me over 5 hours on 100mb, but on 1gig - 18mins. edit. Yes i know i'm 4 years late :P
It warms my heart to know you're based in Southampton. I was one of those that commented about the speed and that I didn't need it..The truth is I would love all the speed but it's difficult to justify the cost.
The reason you won't see gigabit upload speeds on docsis 3.1 is because its shared, and sharing upload is trickier than sharing download. What that means is while you can oversell download by a lot and share that bandwidth, if the upload is heavily oversold it pretty much takes out the network - downloading requires upload bandwidth too, so the whole thing stops if the upload pipe is saturated. So they can oversell ~2 gig docsis as 1 gig download and put a disclaimer on that its "up to" 1 gig... but they need to oversell upload by a lot less to keep everything running.
The best VM business connection for small businesses is 350Mb/s down & 35Mb/s up for £7 more per month than my 1Gb/52Mb residential line. Or they offer a leased line with 300Mb/s Symmetrical for £400pm lol
You are spot on about keeping pressure on the ISPs.. Two short years ago, I lived in a rural area where satellite was the only option.. And they sure knew it! Their fastest package was advertised 20mb/s down (real:8mb/s) and 500kb/s up with a 15gb/mo cap(!!). Latency was rarely under 1,000 (thats one full second...). This cost over $120us/mo. Would have just went with a data plan for phone, but this area didnt have that.
Same here. well, my isp doesnt offer adsl in my area anymore, but i bought my internet back when they still did, so we still get it. but if ever we dropped it, we couldn't get it back. Sounds fishy right? BTW it's only 3mb down.
@Phillip Charles that's correct. Ben Loud would have to be residing in the remaining 300K residencies not yet connected to the NBNCo rollout where ~10 million residences have been connected. It will be completed next year or early 2021, not 2060.
In Germany - Telekom 1000Mb/s Down, 500Mb/s Up costs 120€ per month and - Vodafone 1000Mb/s Down, 50Mb/s Up costs 70€ per month. The availability is very low, as well.
I'm on Virgin Media's expensive m500 package my speeds are 590 download and 43 upload the best we can get in Bournemouth at the moment, I wish they gave the option to pay for an increased upload speed or symmetrical plans.
I've been with VM for a long time too. The routers seem okay but quite spotty. Just last week they said to everyone on my street "You won't have stable internet for 1 week, sorry". So I had to use all my mobile data making a hotspot. I would do what you said and switch it to modem mode and have my own router but I fear that if there was ever a problem they wouldn't understand / blame my after market router. Is this a problem you have faced?
In the past when I've had issues with the VM connection, the first thing I do is switch the hub back into router mode because that allows me to tell if it's my stuff that's causing the issue or if it's a VM issue. So after that step there's no issues with VM blaming my router because it's no longer in modem mode when I give them a ring.
Your upload speed is like my download speed... In a very good day... Meditating in front of the modem... After a trip to the basement to cut the power to everyone else in the building...
I am not a professional on network integration but the upload speed might be limited to how they are laying the physical lines and then how they are connecting to the ISP's routers. If they are still using coaxial cables that is why they are still having to use the DOCSIS 3.1 standard, which then causes the issue of "limited" upload speeds. Its further reduced in wave length when the line is then split to all the different neighborhoods and then even further down once u get to apartments and individual houses. The 10Gig down is rarely saturated since most homes/apartments don't get any where near that and even if they do its for short bursts since its so fast. The upload being 1-2gb could literally be a bottleneck in wavelength bands. If your line or anyones line is brought to say a main cross street and then split to 5 neighborhoods with 25-40 houses each or apartments, it will severely limit the number of wavelengths that upload data can travel one. Again this is from my limited knowledge and I could be wrong.
Hey! I actually just purchased this today. Do you still use this? What is/was it like? I'm in Southampton too, actually which would be pretty helpful with this lol
This video was the trigger, got my upgrade sorted from m350 to 1gb for just £1.50 a month extra. Hub 4 arrives later this week , hope it plays nice in modem mode
Is setting the 3.0 hub to modem only easy? I do a fair bit with my pc but always think i'll leave that setting as it might mess it up. On many things. Great video!
Never heard of it. I think I’m on 200 pack. I’ll look into this. I hate that virgin can randomly throttle the connect. My net cuts off at 1am-2am and reboots. And wireless it randomly switches 5g to 2g.
Lauren, you can use link aggregation to combine 2 gigabit ethernet ports into a 2.5G out. That way you can get the full 1100 mbps out of the modem and to a single client (provided it has a 2.5G or higher port). Many switches currently on the market will let you do this and they're not too pricy. Unfortunately if you go that route you can't put the ISP unit into modem mode, which I imagine is a deal breaker for you.
Did you need a new coax cable to your house to get the 1gbs speed? I was under the impression the current cables from the road to your house maxed out at around 560mbs.
The Coaxail can handle speeds much higher than 1Gbps, you dont need a new cable, unless the power levels are out over the cable then you may need a thicker one installed, but they only go up to as far as the wall plate on the outside of your house
Is the latency noticeably any better on the docsis 3.1? Just got a cable modem after many years being in a non cable area and on BT/Plusnet, and with a proper router (pfsense) and proper networking hardware it's just a pleasure. Not as bothered about the upload thing although sure will be nice eventually when they up it, but I'm on 36mbit up and that's more than I had down on FTTC for a long time.
Your comments on "why do you need this speed?" are right on. We've been led to believe that internet bandwidth is a scarce resource when it really isn't. Much of the backbone can handle much more traffic. As the higher end packages get cheaper so do the lower end one, making access cheaper and faster for all users.
I still have 20down/1.5 up shared with another person, which is not perfect but something i can just about live with, and 5 years ago i lived in a village where the best they could do was 5Mbit/s downstream in a household shared with 4 other people, which was just plain horrible even back then, more so now. It was unfortunately the only place i could find to live, and having a bed was more important than being able to watch UA-cam at more than 480p. If i were to set political priorities, i don't think expanding a few locations to gigabit would be it. i'd shift the focus to guarantee that every single location has at least 50MBit/s per household. Someone here having 500Mbit/s doesn't help someone elsewhere who has only 2MBit/s.
What i mean is that when politicians set a goal like gigabit internet everywhere, what it will actually come to is 92, 93%... and then they'll call it "close enough" and the real bad spots will never ever ever get fixed up. Because it's all about visible progress or sometimes semblance of progress, not actually making people's lives better. And once you spent all the money to upgrade all the central infrastructure, you can just switch out the connections near the communication knots higher speed up, but the bad underdeveloped spots will never ever get touched up - some people can't get more than 6mbit/s, that's an indication that there's still 40-50 year old local infrastructure not getting touched up.
@J Fz You know i have seen the "solution" to insufficient broadband coverage before, namely simply cutting off 5-7% of the population from the Internet entirely, whom they can't be bothered to upgrade the infrastructure for. This way on paper "everyone" has broadband. You will find people down here in the comment section even in the UK even who have this issue, that DSL is no longer offered in their area unless they sit on an old contract, and they have no alternative, they cannot get fibre or cable. Your solution to not call it "broadband" is of a similar ilk. It's just the same paper shuffling rather than solving an actual issue.
Was it a mistake in signing up for Sky Broadband? Was the cheapest when I was shopping around then. So still waiting for the engineer to arrive next week. I heard Virgin Media is very fast and affordable but upload speeds are crap. Would you recommend VM than Sky or BT if it's available in our area? We're renting and I feel we will be told off harshly for any drilling that Virgin will be doing. Any advice please?
That depends on what Sky and Virgin can offer you in your area. This is all location specific. For me the fastest I can get from Sky is like 50Mb down and 10Mb up. Where as with VM I have 1100Mb down and 50Mb up. My upload is as fast as Sky's download, so there's a huge difference. However, you mentioned picking the cheapest when shopping around, so you've prioritised price over speed. There's nothing wrong with keeping your bills down, but you won't get good speeds unless you go for one of the more expensive plans. Unless your house has had a previous virgin connection then the installer would run a cable and drill a hole into the property. It would be worth asking your landlord for permission so that they don't use that as a reason to take any of your deposit. Having easy access to faster internet can make it easier to rent out a property so it would be in your landlords best interest to allow a fast connection to be installed.
Great explanation. Are you available to configure the VM router to LAG 2 of it's LAN ports? This providing theroretical 2Gb/s line speed to your own router? Futhermore does your own router have a 2x 1Gb WAN ?
I think that the upload speeds are currently restrained for 2 reasons: 1. The upstream speeds are still on DOCSIS 3.0, which means that it cannot take advantage of DOCSIS 3.1's high upload speed (until they upgrade it at some point). 2. Sharing, a cable network is shared which means that a single node could handle 10 people on 1 Gbps down but because of the limitations mentioned in 1 plus the fact that it gets split between people, it means that (at the moment) currently you cannot get a 1Gbps symmetrical connection from them.
I was lucky with the service quality of Virgin Media so far, both in Exeter - 100Mbps and in Bristol -350Mbps. There is one thing to be considered when choosing an ISP is that if you want to, can you sail the waters, or is it blocked by that given ISP. Virgin Media looks safe in this aspect.
I work at VM and I'll be raising your points with our SLT. Lot of valid issues and we have a drive right now to become the UK's favourite supplier so these need addressing.
Would be interested in seeing what you do for a home network upgrade. Since clearly you make lots of videos, do you have a NAS ?. I recently made my own FreeNAS server from an old PC. Gave it a small SSD bootable drive, just 128GB. And 4x 4TB SATA Drives in RAID5 as the storage. FreeNAS is so simple to setup and really fast to use on a home network as a mapped drive to all your shares. You can setup various user accounts, set permissions on each share. And even publish shares online so you can access your nas while away from home. Only upgrade i made to the old PC, apart from fitting 16GB of RAM, was to buy a new Intel Pro1000 GT Server NIC card. Better than using the cheapo onboard ethernet.
Here in the US, at least were I live on the East Coast, I can get 952 Mbps down and 25 Mbps up... For a cost of $104.95 USD per month. Upload is not great but I blame the 'monopoly' company Comcast for this. Thanks Lauren for all the content you share. Keep it going!
TastyPC - how am I sat at 40mb/ps when you are sat at over double that? This is in relation to STEAM through a wired connection direct to the Hub. I've also got 3 x TLink Deco M4 around the house and the Gig1 has improved the download a lot, but no where near what you are getting. I'm keen to push the connection as much as I can due to the monthly cost involved. Overall I'm happy with the speed increase, but feel I could and should still be getting more than what I am.
Maybe Steams servers were slow when you were downloading, or perhaps your PC is bottlenecking somewhere (for example if you're downloading to a really slow drive). You should try downloading from 2 places at the same time (Steam + Origin for example) and then see what the download speed is combined.
@@TastyPC Nice one, thanks. That makes sense. This PC uses a Samsung SSD 850 Evo with an adaptor that states it is able to cater for 1.gb. I've a new PC coming in a week or two with M.2 drives, so perhaps that would allow for faster downloading. Food for thought - I'll be back....
What people need to realise is the faster your speed the more you have to go around your connected devices with out them impacting on each other so the faster broadband gets the more you can connect. For example the average home now will have a games console, 2 or more smart TVs, a smart speaker or two , usually several tablets, a pc or Mac, several mobile phones and much more with techie households having several of each plus things like vr, smart home hubs, lighting and devices of network storage / NAS. You try having this lot on a 25meg connection and not see your connected devices suffer.
You hit the nail on the head about holding the telecoms companies responsible for providing better connections at a reduced price as they are getting all the money they said they needed for infrastructure improvement. BT/Openreach is the biggest culprit as they provide the infrastructure for the other broadband providers.
Can you "LAG" two of the ports from your modem into your router, so you get the full speed? You may have a "bond" option if LAG isn't supported. Have a good look in the settings on your router. Good luck!
Very poor upload speed, especially compared to america where they get 400-650 upload. Can i ask you a question- what router do you use? as im assuming your using the superhub3 as a modem only
I think many people suffer form Stockholm syndrome, nobody in their sane mind would say they are happy with slower internet even tho the better one is available for LESS money, if they just ask for it. This applies to many things in life, giving internet just an example for this occasion.
I'm worried that my pc won't be fast enough to keep up if I get gig broadband, the SSD should be ok, but if I'm downloading to spinning metal will it keep up?
The best thing about VM for me was when I signed up for BB in my street ( which is an off street from the main road with only 3 houses including mine ) and they confirmed an installation date which they postponed 3 times without reason other than " there was a technical issue " Yes, the technical issue was there is NO cable in my road. It runs down the main road straight past my little off street!! I told them this as you can see where they dug up the road 2 months before and installed the fibre optic cables, bypassing my little off street, but there reply was " we are investigating the technical issue " even though I explained, they passed my part of the street. In the end, I decided to cancel the installation. There response was " if you cancel the installation, it wil be unfair to the other 2 properties in your part of the street as they may want VM in the future, it will cost us £10,000 to dig up your road and aquire planning permission from the council " So, basically, VM where trying to make me feel guilty for A: Not having cable in my street & B: cancelling the installation, thus preventing any future customes from having VM because they cannot justify installing it for 1 person at a cost of £10,000 lol. I know, you cant make this sh1t up right? Never again VM!! Subbed....
Wow! 100MB/s download in steam :) I'm hoping my city gets gigabit soon as I've seen promotion vans in town centre and registered interest. Hoping next year I can get it :)
Hi! Great vid! Would you mind pinging the new router and telling me what the ping time is? On the hub 3 it’s anywhere from 1-20ms, which is mental! I’d be expecting sub 1ms Ping.
Meanwhile in Australia: "We are absolutely confident that 25 megs is going to be enough, more than enough, for the average household."
With a 200 gig data cap.
Fuccck, I'm moving soon and I have to go from giga bit to fixed wireless
The new Call Of Duty is apparently 175GB. So at 25Mb/s it'll take you almost 17 hours!!
Wait... you also have a 200GB data cap?!?! But that would only leave you with 25GB for the rest of the month!
Australians need to start running some cables... ASAP! When COD is beyond your networks capabilities, that's when you know you're in trouble! It's COD lol. x'D
@shuemack - Yeah it's quite unbelievable. I currently live in Thailand and 300mbit (real and tested) is included in the rent...
(Edit: No Cap)
I feel for you! I've moved to a flat in Exeter UK back in 2016, where I didn't check the available internet for that block, because it was a lot closer to the city centre... all the decent services went around that block, and the fastest available one was a price gauging BT shite, I ended up with a 6Mbps connection for 6 months, after having 100Mbps for over a year...;)) I understand to be stuck with 6Mbps for 6 months is a lot better than being stuck with 25Mbps for Life.:((
Never thought I'd see Boris Johnson in a TastyPC video, lol.
...neither did I lmao.
@@TastyPC if you must do this again please color his hair and give him the loveliest nails lest you ruin my immersion in your world
i pledged that i would vote for anybody who promised to deliver gigabit internet everywhere in the UK asap.......however, 8 years is not 'asap' in my mind so i don't have to vote for that clown.
Mr.Bubbles he said he’s bringing it forward 8 years not it would take 8 years
@@ddha0000 maybe we should nationalize broadband rollout lol. see how that works out.
Totally for a video on your network overhaul!
Further stoked, that you also use your provider router in modem/passthrough mode!
Most people give me looks, if i tell them about..
It took me 72 hours to fully download and install wolfenstein the new order, that's with the physical disc as well.
She's alive, gods be praised!
I've Gigabit since 2017 (luckily I live in Milan) and couldn't go back, it's such an upgrade!
Maledetto polentone
*cries in 30 mb/s*
I have Google Fiber 1gb and there is not retreat.
there's no google fibre in my area and my HOA doesnt want ISPs to build the anything near us so my area is fucked with expensive shitty internet
@@420f37 the UK government won't sort out our shit Internet either
So jealous of those speeds Lauren. Totally agree that we should also strive for better connections. Nicely done.
Wow. Your speed is exactly 100 times faster than mine.. lol!
Well not really "lol", probably more like "col" because I'm crying pretty loudly right now..
Hey Lauren. Congrats on finally hitting 100k subs. I'm so happy for you and fair play for sticking with it especially with all the shite you've gone through in the last couple of years
Once you go Gigabit you never go back. Nothing like downloading a game from Steam that takes minutes to download.
You can multitask :D It's really not that much of any improvement over say 100mb, it' just nice, that it. However 100mb is a a fukload improvement over 10mb it goes from just about usuable to nearly perfect.
@@jondonnelly3 Comcast gave a free speed boost now I'm getting 250 from about 170
Well, 100GB game would still take around 14mins to download. Still very fast.
I have 360Mb connect and it takes me around 35-40mins to download 100GB
yea but the games that over 50gig are utter shit LOL so it pointless :)
@@jondonnelly3 Lol wut? 1gb is way better than 100mb lol. for example a 150GB game took me over 5 hours on 100mb, but on 1gig - 18mins.
edit. Yes i know i'm 4 years late :P
It warms my heart to know you're based in Southampton.
I was one of those that commented about the speed and that I didn't need it..The truth is I would love all the speed but it's difficult to justify the cost.
haha I noticed that too, though I thought she was south of London somewhere like Guildford.
I live in Southampton lol im upgrading to 100 meg download from 4mb download shityy copper cable
@@EchoDroll couldn't you just get fttc instead of having to change providers
Meanwhile in Germany I'm struggling with my 12 Mbits...
Edit: I made it to 100 Mbits and in 14 days 250 Mbits will be mine :D
The highest you can get in my parent of the US is 200 Mbits, and it’s American internet so you only get like 10% of that on a good day...
Have you installed network cabling in your house, as in behind the walls? Would love to see a video on that
If I win the lottery and buy a house, then this will only be the first video of many that I'll make lol xD
Hi how is it holding up? It's just available in my area.
Found the perfect tech YT channel. Listen you speaking its like... Hypnotizing.
The reason you won't see gigabit upload speeds on docsis 3.1 is because its shared, and sharing upload is trickier than sharing download. What that means is while you can oversell download by a lot and share that bandwidth, if the upload is heavily oversold it pretty much takes out the network - downloading requires upload bandwidth too, so the whole thing stops if the upload pipe is saturated.
So they can oversell ~2 gig docsis as 1 gig download and put a disclaimer on that its "up to" 1 gig... but they need to oversell upload by a lot less to keep everything running.
That upload speed restriction is market segmentation. They'd want bussinesses to pay bussiness pricing.
The best VM business connection for small businesses is 350Mb/s down & 35Mb/s up for £7 more per month than my 1Gb/52Mb residential line.
Or they offer a leased line with 300Mb/s Symmetrical for £400pm lol
Great video covering alot in those 7 minutes. Highly appreciated it
You are spot on about keeping pressure on the ISPs..
Two short years ago, I lived in a rural area where satellite was the only option.. And they sure knew it! Their fastest package was advertised 20mb/s down (real:8mb/s) and 500kb/s up with a 15gb/mo cap(!!). Latency was rarely under 1,000 (thats one full second...).
This cost over $120us/mo. Would have just went with a data plan for phone, but this area didnt have that.
Same here. well, my isp doesnt offer adsl in my area anymore, but i bought my internet back when they still did, so we still get it. but if ever we dropped it, we couldn't get it back. Sounds fishy right? BTW it's only 3mb down.
its nice that you are active once more, please make more content in a month, I'm sure others would love that as well
wow youre back! I remember watching all your videos a while ago :)
1 gig...whoa lol, got the 300mb package and i thought that was fast! xD
I'm glad that Upload speeds are almost the same as download speeds where I am (900mbps up/850 down) :3
Where do you live?
Asymmetrical fiber is so lame. Happy to have 300/300
@@oldbatwit5102 Singapore
Cries while I watch this on ADSL2+ in the heart of a major Australian city. Looking forward to getting gigabit internet in 2060
same except i live in a major swedish city (500k+ population), apartments right across the street has fiber though
@Phillip Charles that's correct. Ben Loud would have to be residing in the remaining 300K residencies not yet connected to the NBNCo rollout where ~10 million residences have been connected. It will be completed next year or early 2021, not 2060.
Many congratulations on reaching that magic 100k mark. You've worked very hard to get there and you've been through a lot Lauren. I salute you madam!
In Germany
- Telekom 1000Mb/s Down, 500Mb/s Up costs 120€ per month and
- Vodafone 1000Mb/s Down, 50Mb/s Up costs 70€ per month.
The availability is very low, as well.
I'm on Virgin Media's expensive m500 package my speeds are 590 download and 43 upload the best we can get in Bournemouth at the moment, I wish they gave the option to pay for an increased upload speed or symmetrical plans.
I've been with VM for a long time too. The routers seem okay but quite spotty. Just last week they said to everyone on my street "You won't have stable internet for 1 week, sorry". So I had to use all my mobile data making a hotspot.
I would do what you said and switch it to modem mode and have my own router but I fear that if there was ever a problem they wouldn't understand / blame my after market router. Is this a problem you have faced?
In the past when I've had issues with the VM connection, the first thing I do is switch the hub back into router mode because that allows me to tell if it's my stuff that's causing the issue or if it's a VM issue. So after that step there's no issues with VM blaming my router because it's no longer in modem mode when I give them a ring.
@@TastyPC Okay, sweet! I'll have a look into some routers. Thanks.
Your upload speed is like my download speed... In a very good day... Meditating in front of the modem... After a trip to the basement to cut the power to everyone else in the building...
2 years on did they update the rotour?
I am not a professional on network integration but the upload speed might be limited to how they are laying the physical lines and then how they are connecting to the ISP's routers. If they are still using coaxial cables that is why they are still having to use the DOCSIS 3.1 standard, which then causes the issue of "limited" upload speeds. Its further reduced in wave length when the line is then split to all the different neighborhoods and then even further down once u get to apartments and individual houses. The 10Gig down is rarely saturated since most homes/apartments don't get any where near that and even if they do its for short bursts since its so fast. The upload being 1-2gb could literally be a bottleneck in wavelength bands. If your line or anyones line is brought to say a main cross street and then split to 5 neighborhoods with 25-40 houses each or apartments, it will severely limit the number of wavelengths that upload data can travel one.
Again this is from my limited knowledge and I could be wrong.
It’s two years later, and I’m just about to have Lila 1Gb/1Gb installed tomorrow :)
Now to get that UDM Pro and really take full advantage of that connection!
Hey! I actually just purchased this today. Do you still use this? What is/was it like?
I'm in Southampton too, actually which would be pretty helpful with this lol
Lauren you are great! I really appreciate and agree with you're opinions! Also I really hope you feel better soon!!
This video was the trigger, got my upgrade sorted from m350 to 1gb for just £1.50 a month extra. Hub 4 arrives later this week , hope it plays nice in modem mode
Is setting the 3.0 hub to modem only easy? I do a fair bit with my pc but always think i'll leave that setting as it might mess it up. On many things. Great video!
yeah its real easy just google it or youtube it - u can do it in a couple of minutes.
Got mine in Manchester 2 Months ago, it's really fast on gaming on geforce now..Cloud gaming is the future
Does it cut out
Cloud gaming is not the future
Never heard of it. I think I’m on 200 pack. I’ll look into this. I hate that virgin can randomly throttle the connect. My net cuts off at 1am-2am and reboots. And wireless it randomly switches 5g to 2g.
Congrats to 100k Subscriber 🤗
Lauren, you can use link aggregation to combine 2 gigabit ethernet ports into a 2.5G out. That way you can get the full 1100 mbps out of the modem and to a single client (provided it has a 2.5G or higher port). Many switches currently on the market will let you do this and they're not too pricy. Unfortunately if you go that route you can't put the ISP unit into modem mode, which I imagine is a deal breaker for you.
also hi hello.. how is the Garage going? all finished?
why do we not see you in your videos anymore ?
Did you need a new coax cable to your house to get the 1gbs speed? I was under the impression the current cables from the road to your house maxed out at around 560mbs.
The Coaxail can handle speeds much higher than 1Gbps, you dont need a new cable, unless the power levels are out over the cable then you may need a thicker one installed, but they only go up to as far as the wall plate on the outside of your house
Is the latency noticeably any better on the docsis 3.1? Just got a cable modem after many years being in a non cable area and on BT/Plusnet, and with a proper router (pfsense) and proper networking hardware it's just a pleasure. Not as bothered about the upload thing although sure will be nice eventually when they up it, but I'm on 36mbit up and that's more than I had down on FTTC for a long time.
Your comments on "why do you need this speed?" are right on. We've been led to believe that internet bandwidth is a scarce resource when it really isn't. Much of the backbone can handle much more traffic. As the higher end packages get cheaper so do the lower end one, making access cheaper and faster for all users.
Hey if your still here please can you answer my question do you experience lag anymore or is it all working good?
I still have 20down/1.5 up shared with another person, which is not perfect but something i can just about live with, and 5 years ago i lived in a village where the best they could do was 5Mbit/s downstream in a household shared with 4 other people, which was just plain horrible even back then, more so now. It was unfortunately the only place i could find to live, and having a bed was more important than being able to watch UA-cam at more than 480p.
If i were to set political priorities, i don't think expanding a few locations to gigabit would be it. i'd shift the focus to guarantee that every single location has at least 50MBit/s per household. Someone here having 500Mbit/s doesn't help someone elsewhere who has only 2MBit/s.
What i mean is that when politicians set a goal like gigabit internet everywhere, what it will actually come to is 92, 93%... and then they'll call it "close enough" and the real bad spots will never ever ever get fixed up. Because it's all about visible progress or sometimes semblance of progress, not actually making people's lives better. And once you spent all the money to upgrade all the central infrastructure, you can just switch out the connections near the communication knots higher speed up, but the bad underdeveloped spots will never ever get touched up - some people can't get more than 6mbit/s, that's an indication that there's still 40-50 year old local infrastructure not getting touched up.
@J Fz You know i have seen the "solution" to insufficient broadband coverage before, namely simply cutting off 5-7% of the population from the Internet entirely, whom they can't be bothered to upgrade the infrastructure for. This way on paper "everyone" has broadband. You will find people down here in the comment section even in the UK even who have this issue, that DSL is no longer offered in their area unless they sit on an old contract, and they have no alternative, they cannot get fibre or cable.
Your solution to not call it "broadband" is of a similar ilk. It's just the same paper shuffling rather than solving an actual issue.
Was it a mistake in signing up for Sky Broadband? Was the cheapest when I was shopping around then. So still waiting for the engineer to arrive next week. I heard Virgin Media is very fast and affordable but upload speeds are crap. Would you recommend VM than Sky or BT if it's available in our area? We're renting and I feel we will be told off harshly for any drilling that Virgin will be doing. Any advice please?
That depends on what Sky and Virgin can offer you in your area. This is all location specific. For me the fastest I can get from Sky is like 50Mb down and 10Mb up. Where as with VM I have 1100Mb down and 50Mb up. My upload is as fast as Sky's download, so there's a huge difference.
However, you mentioned picking the cheapest when shopping around, so you've prioritised price over speed. There's nothing wrong with keeping your bills down, but you won't get good speeds unless you go for one of the more expensive plans.
Unless your house has had a previous virgin connection then the installer would run a cable and drill a hole into the property. It would be worth asking your landlord for permission so that they don't use that as a reason to take any of your deposit. Having easy access to faster internet can make it easier to rent out a property so it would be in your landlords best interest to allow a fast connection to be installed.
Great explanation. Are you available to configure the VM router to LAG 2 of it's LAN ports? This providing theroretical 2Gb/s line speed to your own router? Futhermore does your own router have a 2x 1Gb WAN ?
your voice is so relaxing nearly fell asleep
I think that the upload speeds are currently restrained for 2 reasons:
1. The upstream speeds are still on DOCSIS 3.0, which means that it cannot take advantage of DOCSIS 3.1's high upload speed (until they upgrade it at some point).
2. Sharing, a cable network is shared which means that a single node could handle 10 people on 1 Gbps down but because of the limitations mentioned in 1 plus the fact that it gets split between people, it means that (at the moment) currently you cannot get a 1Gbps symmetrical connection from them.
I was lucky with the service quality of Virgin Media so far, both in Exeter - 100Mbps and in Bristol -350Mbps. There is one thing to be considered when choosing an ISP is that if you want to, can you sail the waters, or is it blocked by that given ISP. Virgin Media looks safe in this aspect.
This video has excellent. Instantly subbed. You know your shit that’s for sure.
Oh wow that's got me thinking of some new ideas for upgrades. Thanks for the inspiration Lauren!
I work at VM and I'll be raising your points with our SLT. Lot of valid issues and we have a drive right now to become the UK's favourite supplier so these need addressing.
Don't you need the fiber optic connection to your residence to get full gigabit connection? There is a limit to a copper wire connection.
When i try to upgrade to Gig1 it says it is only available to new customers?
You speak absolutely perfect sense. Well done.
Are you able to perhaps take advantage of link aggregation to utilize 2 of the gig ports on the back of that AIO modem/router?
Nice video, so what router would you recommend to go with modem only mode?
I think the lack of upload is because cable is shared between the street. Where as fttp is direct to the home.
did you do a video on upgrading your router? can you how how to get it in modem mode and why this is probably the best way? Thanks
Steam caps the speed for downloading games. Even on my Fiber FTTH, my downloads from Steam hit a wall compared to other services.
Yeah, at that point, it really depends on the host's upload speeds as well.
Would be interested in seeing what you do for a home network upgrade. Since clearly you make lots of videos, do you have a NAS ?. I recently made my own FreeNAS server from an old PC. Gave it a small SSD bootable drive, just 128GB. And 4x 4TB SATA Drives in RAID5 as the storage. FreeNAS is so simple to setup and really fast to use on a home network as a mapped drive to all your shares. You can setup various user accounts, set permissions on each share. And even publish shares online so you can access your nas while away from home. Only upgrade i made to the old PC, apart from fitting 16GB of RAM, was to buy a new Intel Pro1000 GT Server NIC card. Better than using the cheapo onboard ethernet.
My previous video was on a NAS! You should check it out. :)
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Here in the US, at least were I live on the East Coast, I can get 952 Mbps down and 25 Mbps up... For a cost of $104.95 USD per month. Upload is not great but I blame the 'monopoly' company Comcast for this. Thanks Lauren for all the content you share. Keep it going!
Not sure if you live in southampton but there’s a service called toob which offers 900 up 900 down speeds, I’d be interested in a review on them 👍
I have a question, are they natural or silicone ??
TastyPC and Boris Johnson. Absolutely unbelievable crossover
where in england do you have to live to get 1 gig internet btw? i dont have access to that kind of speeds in my city =(
TastyPC - how am I sat at 40mb/ps when you are sat at over double that? This is in relation to STEAM through a wired connection direct to the Hub. I've also got 3 x TLink Deco M4 around the house and the Gig1 has improved the download a lot, but no where near what you are getting.
I'm keen to push the connection as much as I can due to the monthly cost involved.
Overall I'm happy with the speed increase, but feel I could and should still be getting more than what I am.
Maybe Steams servers were slow when you were downloading, or perhaps your PC is bottlenecking somewhere (for example if you're downloading to a really slow drive). You should try downloading from 2 places at the same time (Steam + Origin for example) and then see what the download speed is combined.
@@TastyPC Nice one, thanks. That makes sense. This PC uses a Samsung SSD 850 Evo with an adaptor that states it is able to cater for 1.gb. I've a new PC coming in a week or two with M.2 drives, so perhaps that would allow for faster downloading.
Food for thought - I'll be back....
Wait, I don‘t get it. Why is it called „Fibre“ when actually its cable/ DOCIS?
Hey can you check the max speed over wireless? In theory that route should be able to do 1.3 Gbps over wireless.
What people need to realise is the faster your speed the more you have to go around your connected devices with out them impacting on each other so the faster broadband gets the more you can connect. For example the average home now will have a games console, 2 or more smart TVs, a smart speaker or two , usually several tablets, a pc or Mac, several mobile phones and much more with techie households having several of each plus things like vr, smart home hubs, lighting and devices of network storage / NAS. You try having this lot on a 25meg connection and not see your connected devices suffer.
Meanwhile in Stockholm, we've been on 10Gbps for at least year :D
meanwhile in my country: we already had 1gb internet conections and we are not as developed like the UK nor sweden
I NINJALEGXCY I lol
Wow
You hit the nail on the head about holding the telecoms companies responsible for providing better connections at a reduced price as they are getting all the money they said they needed for infrastructure improvement. BT/Openreach is the biggest culprit as they provide the infrastructure for the other broadband providers.
Can you "LAG" two of the ports from your modem into your router, so you get the full speed? You may have a "bond" option if LAG isn't supported. Have a good look in the settings on your router. Good luck!
This may also be know as teaming.
Ted Branston Why is it that you lose speeds using your own router?
Why did you not get the super hub 5?
And I thought my 100mbps was fast.
100mbps is fast. More than enough for anything you could want to do on the Internet.
It is fast. Very fast. Mine averages at about 20mbps and I'm lucky if I see it over 1mbps ngl. I'm also with vigin media in the UK.
@@mattbedford875 vm services are dire. When i first got it 100mb. Now I'm on 500KB
@@sylveon2842 yeah I don't know what to do :( I don't own the house so it's not really up to me to sort it...
I don't care for all that ☺ I'm just following you to hear your voice and watch you ♥
That's not creepy at all
i m currently paying for 500 and the Speed i get is 700 to 750 so will it worth to really pay more as i m already paying almost £ 100
Being on 1 Gigi symmetric for 8 Euro a month for 5 years, going back to the UK broadband is a hard thing to do :(
I got the 350mbps plan, 1gig isn’t enabled in London :(
Uzi is 350. It in enough for you
Totally would be keen to see a vid on you redoing your network.
why in the last videos cant see you?, is rare happened something?
Very poor upload speed, especially compared to america where they get 400-650 upload. Can i ask you a question- what router do you use? as im assuming your using the superhub3 as a modem only
whats the advantage of putting th evirgin in modem only and using your own router?
Your voice is so soothing
I think many people suffer form Stockholm syndrome, nobody in their sane mind would say they are happy with slower internet even tho the better one is available for LESS money, if they just ask for it. This applies to many things in life, giving internet just an example for this occasion.
Good words, and very good job. Everything you said in this video is spot on!
Do you think it’s worth upgrading to Superhub 4 from a 3 even without the 1gig service? Am an existing 500meg customer..
I don't think they'll let you. But if you can, it would depend on the price.
I'm worried that my pc won't be fast enough to keep up if I get gig broadband, the SSD should be ok, but if I'm downloading to spinning metal will it keep up?
The best thing about VM for me was when I signed up for BB in my street ( which is an off street from the main road with only 3 houses including mine ) and they confirmed an installation date which they postponed 3 times without reason other than " there was a technical issue " Yes, the technical issue was there is NO cable in my road. It runs down the main road straight past my little off street!! I told them this as you can see where they dug up the road 2 months before and installed the fibre optic cables, bypassing my little off street, but there reply was " we are investigating the technical issue " even though I explained, they passed my part of the street. In the end, I decided to cancel the installation. There response was " if you cancel the installation, it wil be unfair to the other 2 properties in your part of the street as they may want VM in the future, it will cost us £10,000 to dig up your road and aquire planning permission from the council " So, basically, VM where trying to make me feel guilty for A: Not having cable in my street & B: cancelling the installation, thus preventing any future customes from having VM because they cannot justify installing it for 1 person at a cost of £10,000 lol. I know, you cant make this sh1t up right? Never again VM!!
Subbed....
I’m so disappointed that they didn’t fix latency issues on the hub 4.
Wow! 100MB/s download in steam :) I'm hoping my city gets gigabit soon as I've seen promotion vans in town centre and registered interest. Hoping next year I can get it :)
I live in rural UK in a small town and we only have maximum of 75mbps
Great video thankyou! And is there a link to somewhere I can get a 1gigabit ethernet cable?
Hi! Great vid! Would you mind pinging the new router and telling me what the ping time is? On the hub 3 it’s anywhere from 1-20ms, which is mental! I’d be expecting sub 1ms
Ping.
When will u be in your video's again ?
Did they even include a lan cable? (Eithernet)
as a technician for vm, this is mint!