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.
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.:((
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..
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
I've tried this package and the Hub4 now has terrible jitter problems. It is impossible to play online games with it. I will buy a new router to see if that fixes it. EDIT: I can confirm that buying a good router and setting the hub4 in modem mode fixes the jitter problems.
@@bigballs12pl depending on where exactly you live in Germany the speeds vary a lot. But generally speaking, Germany is far behind most eu countries. I think satellite based Internet will come within the next decade. Looking back at today we then will lough about the slow medieval internet of 2019 while streaming from the top of Mount everest.
I had to live in one place in Germany where we could only get 5Mbit/s downlink. It was technically inside a major city with half a million population but was on the outskirts so it looked more like a village. I also remember a university dorm 10 years ago where you could get pretty decent speed within their network but only something ridiculous like half a MBit/s to the Internet outside.
@@bigballs12pl unfortunately not. Of course you might be lucky but many households don't have fast internet. Game streaming services like google stadia for example are impossible to use for many people in Germany
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 couldn't agree more that we need to keep the pressure on telecoms and governments to increase speeds and decrease price. With every jump in internet speed comes major opportunities for innovation. We don't often think about the innovations that have come because they have come so slowly. But as someone that has been using computers since the early dial up days, the things that we love today like video and audio streaming, online backups and storage, buy and download immediately software, etc were dreams that existed in the minds of the geeks long before anyone else even knew they wanted those services. Newer innovations are pent up in the geeks now, we need only to build the infrastructure to unleash a new wave.
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 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
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.
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...
It's about time for Britain to have 1Gb internet for the masses, Britain is 5 years behind in infrastructure,Advanced countries like the US,Japan,Germany and Spain have had 1Gb internet for the masses for more than 5 years.
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.
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....
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!
Meanwhile in the Philippines, we are said to be subscribing to 5 - 10 Mbps but our crappy ISP actually gave us 0.98 Mbps with Ping units of 290 MS, carried by aging ADSL Lines.
the speed of your CPU actually effects download rate on steam because of unpacking, steam will only download so much that it can unpack and then continue to download more data
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.
speed is important if you’ve got a great mobile network and a great broadband network with high speeds and stable connections then it’s great for the economy, infrastructure infrastructure
Also in the US you definitely can't call it fiber internet if its not fiber to the premises. All communications networks are fiber at some point, but docsis internet is deeeefinitely not fiber internet. We have actual stuff like fios that does in fact run optical cabling right to your house and then that gets converted into RJ45 or, hilariously, "coax." (But the coax connection between the fiber box and a fios router is not docsis, its moca which is more of a lan technology, and it runs around 1100mhz).
Just because the theoretical maximum of the DOCSIS 3.1 standard can support a faster upload does not mean VM can achieve this yet. The US is still using the slightly older 3.0 standard. The average home network is unlikely to support anything past 1Gbps at present, so an ISP is not going to shell out for premium hardware (2.5 or 10Gbps ethernet). The theoretical maximum of the 4x4 5GHz WiFi is 1300Mbps, although I currently dont own a device to get close to that for testing reasons.
In Canada we have had gigabit for years. We’re actually at 1.5 gb down and 1 gb up. We take it for granted and assume that EVERYONE has the same thing. Congratulations on the improved speed! It’s great for streaming 4K video 😉
Well since there's 10' of snow on the ground for 10mo of the year I guess you need inside stuff to do with fast internet. Really surprised your population isn't hundreds of millions LoL
I've been on fiberglass for a couple of years now ... and what do I do? I pick the cheapest (slowest) connection of 50/50 Mbit ... But honestly, 6,25 MB/s is well fast enough for any of my needs. The best thing about fiber is the stability, it's 6,25 MB/s all day, every day (good latency too). While 'broadband' can sometimes fluctuate, depending on how busy the network is (but maybe that's something of the past?). The modem/router you showed is for the coax network (what used to be te cable TV network). The available speed will depend on your location. The further away you are from a hub, the lower the available speed. Don't expect to be able to get a agigabit connection if you live outside of town.
1Gbps download speed & 52Mbps upload speed is ridiculous. The download and upload speed should be symmetrical meaning the same. Hyperoptic offers 1Gbps download & upload speed for a good few years now and they are probably much cheaper than Virgin anyways.
I'm on the Virgin 300. And most of the time speed tests show 300-400 down and 40-50 up, always been relatively happy with that simply because it's for the most part, equal to/more than I pay for. But.....I'm crying out for symmetry! Your average person thinks the internet is all downloading Netflix, watching media, streaming in-bound media. And all the actual content creators, video makers, live streamers are left in the dark because people need to recognise they are even a thing before upload speed is properly considered. I'm glad of the likes of Hyperoptic, Gigaclear etc working towards symmetrical gigabit, they have been for a while now so it's about time the likes of Virgin, Vodafone etc catch up to help it become more mainstream. Hyperoptic have even been doing their symmetrical 150Mbs for some time... Oh, and I'd love to see the network overhaul. My house project is held together with miles of CAT6 lol.
It might not meet the description as you see it, but Boris was talking about the download speed in his speech. Crap upload speeds have been happening for absolutely YEARS. Upload speeds really do need to be increased to hundreds of megabits though, what with people uploading very high quality video to UA-cam every day. Crap upload speeds needs to be a thing of the past. As far as UA-camrs go, and other video sharing sites as well, the upload will likely be maxed out far more than the download.
Loved the video, easy listening and I agree if your not getting full speed then it shouldn't be advertised as such. It's also important that people make comments especially on forums so providers know.
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 :)
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.
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.
I don't care about speed TBH, I am on VM and currently at 100Mbps. Over the years I have had countless 'free' speed upgrades that really don't make any difference to me. Outside downloading a game on Steam. What does matter to me are the countless bleeding price increases that accompany my 'free' speed upgrades. I don't give a shit about faster connections, I want cheaper connections. Once we get viable wireless broadband is when we will start to see some real consumer friendly movement in ISPs.
In Virginia I pay 55 dollars for 100 down/50 up which is fine for me, for $85 I can get 500 down/250 up no data cap on any package . Not bad considering I live in a rural area 25 minutes from the nearest city.
Good Girl...Keep up the pressure on getting them to improve...and hope common sense will overcome marketing greed. Once it is easier some where, it will eventually filter down due to consumer pressure and competition. A lot of people don't know what is possible and believe the marketing info they have been given. Internal memory on phones is a more news worthy example of mankind being scammed, because people didn't know.
It is possible to use a router with multiple wan connections. In this way you will be able to use the full speed of your internet. One example is mwan3 for OpenWrt
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.
That's amazing, we have to pay £500 a month for a leaced line thats only 100 download and 100 upload ( there is no fiber down our road ) awesome video, hopefully we get gigabit internet !
Paying directly for unsubsidized internet or paying taxes on subsidized internet equals the same amount spent out of pocket. The income tax rate in the U.K. is already heading for a 30 year high. Residential streaming in 4K and creating and uploading 4K content is still a LUXURY, so paying for those upload speeds shouldn't be a controversial discussion at this point in time. Any router or gateway modem connection is automatically going to chip off 40 to 80 Mbps bandwidth speed on any cable or fiber internet connection. 1,100 Mbps would only be attained in a perfect case scenario with direct modem to PC connection with short bursts or boosts of peak bandwidth for several seconds during a four minute download at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Nice video, I've just picked up 1gig now although as stated maxing out around 940mbps. I even upgraded my pc's ethernet port and checked all cabling and upgraded all cables to cat 7, but I can't get the advertised 1.1gig speed, I realised that the reason is Virgin's limitation of the Hub 4 and I've been told today that this year customers will get the Hub 5 which has the 2.5gb port and that will finally give customers what they're actually paying for. But even today they said this is in a trial period and it's slow going. They're trying to get it working with their extenders and people's phone lines which sounds like they're having problems with. I've paired an Amazon Eero Pro 6 router with it and enabled modem mode which has improved wifi speeds throughout the house. I found adding a second one into the mix made no discernible improvement to signal or coverage (added upstairs and at the back of the house), with most connections preferring to stay on the router downstairs. Also by doing this I was surprised that I lost a huge amount of speed and decent 2.4ghz connection once going further away from the house in the garden with just the Hub 4 still giving me 100-200mbps at the back of my garden, the Eero managed a pathetic 30-50mbps... so that one is being returned. I'm currently debating on whether it's worth swapping to the Asus Zenwifi XT8 or whether it's worth just keeping one Eero Pro 6. Also I've seen suggested to use the Hub 4's 2.4ghz wifi, and keep the other router for 5ghz, unsure how this may pan out. Apparently you can use something like the Asus XT8 with port aggregation to enable the 1.1gbps speed, but I don't know how this would work in conjunction with the Hub 4.
Getting 940 Mbps on a Gigabit connection is in my opinion entirely acceptable. Because 940 Mbps is roughly the real world speed of gigabit networking. So the issue I had with VM Gig1 is that they advertised 1.1Gb when the modem at the time couldn't actually output that. I'm planing on making a video this year on my move away from VM. Instead of paying £62pm for 1100 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up, I'm going to be paying £25pm for 900 Mbps down and 900 Mbps up. Even though the download is less.. it's still close enough to real world gigabit for me and it's symmetrical. Charging £62 for 50Mbps upload speed should be criminal lol
I don't get nowhere near 940 I have a cat 6 csl ethernet cable and a belkin gigabit adapter ony ever get 200 or 400 max the engineer came out and said your devices are not 1 gig compatible made me do a real speed test on same knows over WiFi connection on my phone and said see 1.1gig is coming to your router but you phone isn't gig compatible
@@TastyPCthanks I was also thinking that 🤔 doesn't make sense because last months I had 500 Meg and was getting 550 consistently. The 2020 mac book just has usb-c ports don't get wifi connection in some parts of the house 😑
We got it here since few years 1000 + Mb/s download and 500 Mb/s Upload for *8 euro* The only thing good in this country (Romania) is the fast internet at cheap price =))
Wow, and i thought we were living in the dark ages here in little old New Zealand with slow internet. (thinking that the rest of the world are on faster internet.) I've had fiber for the last 5years already and its 1000mb down and 500mb up. You still get ADSL and VDSL here but fibre is the same cost so it would make sense that you would choose fiber if its available. Stoked that you shared this with us and that you could upgrade.
I have Hyperoptic in the UK full 1gb up 1gb down, and unlimited, with home phones included it's £62.00 a month. the 1gb up helps a lot as I upload files over 21gb so saves a lot of time.
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?
My broadband journey has gone 4mbps for years from BT advertised 8mbps, finally got Virgin and felt the wind rush though my hair hair at 30mbps. Then our Hub 3 died and the engineer came to replace it and said "Huh, you're only getting 30mbps... you're supposed to be on 60+mbps." I could have done a backflip.
Gigabit Broadband isn’t the do all and be all. It has its own issues, and there is just so much bandwidth to go around, so if everybody in your neighborhood has Gigabit and you’re are all streaming stuff at the same time.......it does give you a faster connection a lot of the time, but your connection rate drops off considerably with Wi-Fi in another room (100 to 300 Mbits/s) or especially in another level, especially going from downstairs to upstairs. I have my main gaming computer connected downstairs to Ethernet directly, and the Gigabit connection varies around 650 Mbits/s, to 900 plus Mbits/s. Now that connection is fun! And, the upload on that computer gets closer to the Gbit/s most of the time. But the reality of Gigabit, like any other connection, is that it varies all over the place depending upon the circumstances, and when you think that it’s all going to be fast, having one of your computers connect at only 100 or less Mbits/s is very disappointing.
Theres still places in the UK that don't even have access to FTTC, still on copper cables at 1mbps, at my old house we were paying £40 a month for 1-2mbps, meanwhile my cousin was getting 50mbps (with the same ISP, Sky) for £25 a month...
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.
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.:((
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..
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.
It took me 72 hours to fully download and install wolfenstein the new order, that's with the physical disc as well.
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..
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
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
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...
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.
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.
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 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.
1 gig...whoa lol, got the 300mb package and i thought that was fast! xD
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.
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.
Found the perfect tech YT channel. Listen you speaking its like... Hypnotizing.
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
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.
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!
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.
@@jondonnelly4831 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 :)
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
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...
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.
I've tried this package and the Hub4 now has terrible jitter problems. It is impossible to play online games with it. I will buy a new router to see if that fixes it.
EDIT: I can confirm that buying a good router and setting the hub4 in modem mode fixes the jitter problems.
Great video covering alot in those 7 minutes. Highly appreciated it
its nice that you are active once more, please make more content in a month, I'm sure others would love that as well
I live in Germany. All I can get is 16 Mbit.
This country has become a laughing matter!
I am living in world , i am getting 30Mbits p s .. world is not a laughing matter... So Germany also not .. 😊
really? i thought internet in Germany is nice. Im getting 500Mbps for 17 Euro in Poland.
@@bigballs12pl depending on where exactly you live in Germany the speeds vary a lot. But generally speaking, Germany is far behind most eu countries. I think satellite based Internet will come within the next decade. Looking back at today we then will lough about the slow medieval internet of 2019 while streaming from the top of Mount everest.
I had to live in one place in Germany where we could only get 5Mbit/s downlink. It was technically inside a major city with half a million population but was on the outskirts so it looked more like a village.
I also remember a university dorm 10 years ago where you could get pretty decent speed within their network but only something ridiculous like half a MBit/s to the Internet outside.
@@bigballs12pl unfortunately not. Of course you might be lucky but many households don't have fast internet.
Game streaming services like google stadia for example are impossible to use for many people in Germany
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.
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
I couldn't agree more that we need to keep the pressure on telecoms and governments to increase speeds and decrease price. With every jump in internet speed comes major opportunities for innovation. We don't often think about the innovations that have come because they have come so slowly. But as someone that has been using computers since the early dial up days, the things that we love today like video and audio streaming, online backups and storage, buy and download immediately software, etc were dreams that existed in the minds of the geeks long before anyone else even knew they wanted those services. Newer innovations are pent up in the geeks now, we need only to build the infrastructure to unleash a new wave.
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.
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
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
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.
wow youre back! I remember watching all your videos a while ago :)
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...
It's about time for Britain to have 1Gb internet for the masses,
Britain is 5 years behind in infrastructure,Advanced countries like the US,Japan,Germany and Spain have had 1Gb internet for the masses for more than 5 years.
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.
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!!
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That's not creepy at all
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!
Meanwhile in the Philippines, we are said to be subscribing to 5 - 10 Mbps but our crappy ISP actually gave us 0.98 Mbps with Ping units of 290 MS, carried by aging ADSL Lines.
the speed of your CPU actually effects download rate on steam because of unpacking, steam will only download so much that it can unpack and then continue to download more data
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.
speed is important if you’ve got a great mobile network and a great broadband network with high speeds and stable connections then it’s great for the economy, infrastructure infrastructure
Good for Boris. Here in Canada we have slightly better internet than Syria.
Syria probably had good internet, until the US bombed it.
Serial Thrilla He’s lying Canada has 1 and 1.5 Gbps internet
TastyPC and Boris Johnson. Absolutely unbelievable crossover
Also in the US you definitely can't call it fiber internet if its not fiber to the premises. All communications networks are fiber at some point, but docsis internet is deeeefinitely not fiber internet. We have actual stuff like fios that does in fact run optical cabling right to your house and then that gets converted into RJ45 or, hilariously, "coax." (But the coax connection between the fiber box and a fios router is not docsis, its moca which is more of a lan technology, and it runs around 1100mhz).
It’s two years later, and I’m just about to have Lila 1Gb/1Gb installed tomorrow :)
Just because the theoretical maximum of the DOCSIS 3.1 standard can support a faster upload does not mean VM can achieve this yet. The US is still using the slightly older 3.0 standard. The average home network is unlikely to support anything past 1Gbps at present, so an ISP is not going to shell out for premium hardware (2.5 or 10Gbps ethernet). The theoretical maximum of the 4x4 5GHz WiFi is 1300Mbps, although I currently dont own a device to get close to that for testing reasons.
You speak absolutely perfect sense. Well done.
Great techy review that gives pause for thought. But ordered Gig1 anyway!
Oh wow that's got me thinking of some new ideas for upgrades. Thanks for the inspiration Lauren!
In Canada we have had gigabit for years. We’re actually at 1.5 gb down and 1 gb up. We take it for granted and assume that EVERYONE has the same thing. Congratulations on the improved speed! It’s great for streaming 4K video 😉
Well since there's 10' of snow on the ground for 10mo of the year I guess you need inside stuff to do with fast internet. Really surprised your population isn't hundreds of millions LoL
I've been on fiberglass for a couple of years now ... and what do I do? I pick the cheapest (slowest) connection of 50/50 Mbit ... But honestly, 6,25 MB/s is well fast enough for any of my needs. The best thing about fiber is the stability, it's 6,25 MB/s all day, every day (good latency too). While 'broadband' can sometimes fluctuate, depending on how busy the network is (but maybe that's something of the past?). The modem/router you showed is for the coax network (what used to be te cable TV network). The available speed will depend on your location. The further away you are from a hub, the lower the available speed. Don't expect to be able to get a agigabit connection if you live outside of town.
1Gbps download speed & 52Mbps upload speed is ridiculous. The download and upload speed should be symmetrical meaning the same. Hyperoptic offers 1Gbps download & upload speed for a good few years now and they are probably much cheaper than Virgin anyways.
Now to get that UDM Pro and really take full advantage of that connection!
I'm on the Virgin 300. And most of the time speed tests show 300-400 down and 40-50 up, always been relatively happy with that simply because it's for the most part, equal to/more than I pay for.
But.....I'm crying out for symmetry! Your average person thinks the internet is all downloading Netflix, watching media, streaming in-bound media.
And all the actual content creators, video makers, live streamers are left in the dark because people need to recognise they are even a thing before upload speed is properly considered. I'm glad of the likes of Hyperoptic, Gigaclear etc working towards symmetrical gigabit, they have been for a while now so it's about time the likes of Virgin, Vodafone etc catch up to help it become more mainstream.
Hyperoptic have even been doing their symmetrical 150Mbs for some time...
Oh, and I'd love to see the network overhaul. My house project is held together with miles of CAT6 lol.
It might not meet the description as you see it, but Boris was talking about the download speed in his speech. Crap upload speeds have been happening for absolutely YEARS. Upload speeds really do need to be increased to hundreds of megabits though, what with people uploading very high quality video to UA-cam every day. Crap upload speeds needs to be a thing of the past. As far as UA-camrs go, and other video sharing sites as well, the upload will likely be maxed out far more than the download.
if you use a 3rd party router and it support wan aggregation you can use 2x connections to the hub to get around the 1gb ethernet limit
Lauren you are great! I really appreciate and agree with you're opinions! Also I really hope you feel better soon!!
100% agree with you about the 940Mbps... mentioned it in the VM forums. they should change there marketing language
This video has excellent. Instantly subbed. You know your shit that’s for sure.
Loved the video, easy listening and I agree if your not getting full speed then it shouldn't be advertised as such. It's also important that people make comments especially on forums so providers know.
My first thought when I saw this in my feed was: Boris Johnson speaks truth?!?!!!!111!!1
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.
Yes please, I'd like to see the network upgrade too. Thank you for your videos!
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
To be honest I would rather see you in your videos, than Johnson. Consider it, please.
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.
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.
I don't care about speed TBH, I am on VM and currently at 100Mbps. Over the years I have had countless 'free' speed upgrades that really don't make any difference to me. Outside downloading a game on Steam. What does matter to me are the countless bleeding price increases that accompany my 'free' speed upgrades. I don't give a shit about faster connections, I want cheaper connections.
Once we get viable wireless broadband is when we will start to see some real consumer friendly movement in ISPs.
In Virginia I pay 55 dollars for 100 down/50 up which is fine for me, for $85 I can get 500 down/250 up no data cap on any package . Not bad considering I live in a rural area 25 minutes from the nearest city.
Just got 100mb down and up, and this is the fastest I ever gotten, now people are talking about 1gb, making me cry lol
I'm a simple man, i see a tastyPC video, i click like and comment
Good Girl...Keep up the pressure on getting them to improve...and hope common sense will overcome marketing greed. Once it is easier some where, it will eventually filter down due to consumer pressure and competition. A lot of people don't know what is possible and believe the marketing info they have been given. Internal memory on phones is a more news worthy example of mankind being scammed, because people didn't know.
Meanwhile in Australia people are lucky to get 20Mbs and the previous Prime Minister said "16Mbs was fast enough for everyone"
It is possible to use a router with multiple wan connections. In this way you will be able to use the full speed of your internet. One example is mwan3 for OpenWrt
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.
That's amazing, we have to pay £500 a month for a leaced line thats only 100 download and 100 upload ( there is no fiber down our road ) awesome video, hopefully we get gigabit internet !
Paying directly for unsubsidized internet or paying taxes on subsidized internet equals the same amount spent out of pocket. The income tax rate in the U.K. is already heading for a 30 year high. Residential streaming in 4K and creating and uploading 4K content is still a LUXURY, so paying for those upload speeds shouldn't be a controversial discussion at this point in time. Any router or gateway modem connection is automatically going to chip off 40 to 80 Mbps bandwidth speed on any cable or fiber internet connection. 1,100 Mbps would only be attained in a perfect case scenario with direct modem to PC connection with short bursts or boosts of peak bandwidth for several seconds during a four minute download at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Here in South Africa you can get 1000mbp/s down and 100mbp/s up package, uncapped/unshaped direct FTTH for about £80 (direct conversion).
Nice video, I've just picked up 1gig now although as stated maxing out around 940mbps. I even upgraded my pc's ethernet port and checked all cabling and upgraded all cables to cat 7, but I can't get the advertised 1.1gig speed, I realised that the reason is Virgin's limitation of the Hub 4 and I've been told today that this year customers will get the Hub 5 which has the 2.5gb port and that will finally give customers what they're actually paying for. But even today they said this is in a trial period and it's slow going. They're trying to get it working with their extenders and people's phone lines which sounds like they're having problems with.
I've paired an Amazon Eero Pro 6 router with it and enabled modem mode which has improved wifi speeds throughout the house. I found adding a second one into the mix made no discernible improvement to signal or coverage (added upstairs and at the back of the house), with most connections preferring to stay on the router downstairs. Also by doing this I was surprised that I lost a huge amount of speed and decent 2.4ghz connection once going further away from the house in the garden with just the Hub 4 still giving me 100-200mbps at the back of my garden, the Eero managed a pathetic 30-50mbps... so that one is being returned.
I'm currently debating on whether it's worth swapping to the Asus Zenwifi XT8 or whether it's worth just keeping one Eero Pro 6.
Also I've seen suggested to use the Hub 4's 2.4ghz wifi, and keep the other router for 5ghz, unsure how this may pan out. Apparently you can use something like the Asus XT8 with port aggregation to enable the 1.1gbps speed, but I don't know how this would work in conjunction with the Hub 4.
Getting 940 Mbps on a Gigabit connection is in my opinion entirely acceptable. Because 940 Mbps is roughly the real world speed of gigabit networking.
So the issue I had with VM Gig1 is that they advertised 1.1Gb when the modem at the time couldn't actually output that.
I'm planing on making a video this year on my move away from VM. Instead of paying £62pm for 1100 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up, I'm going to be paying £25pm for 900 Mbps down and 900 Mbps up. Even though the download is less.. it's still close enough to real world gigabit for me and it's symmetrical. Charging £62 for 50Mbps upload speed should be criminal lol
@@TastyPC you can get it cheaper with volt £6 02 sim and 500gig for like £27 it's £33 altogether but u have full fibre now for £25 that's sweet 😋
I don't get nowhere near 940 I have a cat 6 csl ethernet cable and a belkin gigabit adapter ony ever get 200 or 400 max the engineer came out and said your devices are not 1 gig compatible made me do a real speed test on same knows over WiFi connection on my phone and said see 1.1gig is coming to your router but you phone isn't gig compatible
@@formetoknow540 - It does sound like your devices are limiting you. Probably this Belkin adapter.
@@TastyPCthanks I was also thinking that 🤔 doesn't make sense because last months I had 500 Meg and was getting 550 consistently. The 2020 mac book just has usb-c ports don't get wifi connection in some parts of the house 😑
We got it here since few years 1000 + Mb/s download and 500 Mb/s Upload for *8 euro*
The only thing good in this country (Romania) is the fast internet at cheap price =))
Wow, and i thought we were living in the dark ages here in little old New Zealand with slow internet. (thinking that the rest of the world are on faster internet.) I've had fiber for the last 5years already and its 1000mb down and 500mb up. You still get ADSL and VDSL here but fibre is the same cost so it would make sense that you would choose fiber if its available.
Stoked that you shared this with us and that you could upgrade.
Would be good to have a video on Stadia once it's released. Especially on that connection speed 👍🏻
Speed is important where, I live the 24 megabytes per second is fast and 10 kb/s is what I have found to be common.
I have Hyperoptic in the UK full 1gb up 1gb down, and unlimited, with home phones included it's £62.00 a month. the 1gb up helps a lot as I upload files over 21gb so saves a lot of time.
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?
You can do Ethernet Bonding, basically use 2 Ethernet cables to your second Router to achieve the full speed
Hello Lauren, lovely video! Nice to see that high speed internet has found you! For future videos, can we see your beautiful face again? I miss that!
My broadband journey has gone 4mbps for years from BT advertised 8mbps, finally got Virgin and felt the wind rush though my hair hair at 30mbps. Then our Hub 3 died and the engineer came to replace it and said "Huh, you're only getting 30mbps... you're supposed to be on 60+mbps." I could have done a backflip.
Gigabit Broadband isn’t the do all and be all. It has its own issues, and there is just so much bandwidth to go around, so if everybody in your neighborhood has Gigabit and you’re are all streaming stuff at the same time.......it does give you a faster connection a lot of the time, but your connection rate drops off considerably with Wi-Fi in another room (100 to 300 Mbits/s) or especially in another level, especially going from downstairs to upstairs. I have my main gaming computer connected downstairs to Ethernet directly, and the Gigabit connection varies around 650 Mbits/s, to 900 plus Mbits/s. Now that connection is fun! And, the upload on that computer gets closer to the Gbit/s most of the time. But the reality of Gigabit, like any other connection, is that it varies all over the place depending upon the circumstances, and when you think that it’s all going to be fast, having one of your computers connect at only 100 or less Mbits/s is very disappointing.
Theres still places in the UK that don't even have access to FTTC, still on copper cables at 1mbps, at my old house we were paying £40 a month for 1-2mbps, meanwhile my cousin was getting 50mbps (with the same ISP, Sky) for £25 a month...
Lauren we need to see your lovely self more in your videos!
IMHO, the speeds can never be fast enough.
Definitely. we no longer deal in megabytes. It's time for gigabit everywhere.
Seriously... Internet providers needs more competition.... I'm sick of the monopoly of some ISPs have on certain countries/states/locations etc.
5G will be available before ISPs decide to spend insane money running fiber