4mbps or 38mbps for Unitiserve SSD and NAS ?

Posted by: The Meerkat on 27 April 2013

Please can anyone advise?

 

I have BT infinity, fibre optic broadband at about 38mbps, which is reasonably good. It runs off a HomeHub 3. I know a lot of people don't care for them, but to be fair, it hasn't caused me any trouble. I don't download films, or much music, the odd HD Tracks album every 6 months or so perhaps. So I'm wondering if there is any point paying £18 per month for super fast broadband, or does my UnitiServe SSD and NAS require it? 

 

Would my system work perfectly on a normal broadband speed? Also, what ISP would be preferred?

 

Thanks

Posted on: 27 April 2013 by garyi

Um, broadband speed has pretty much no baring on your home local area network,

 

the only caveat where naim is concerned is iradio, which will run no doubt from a 1 meg connection.

 

However at 18 quid a month you do get the great potential of the web at large, music downloads, updates for you computer and nases etc all nice and quick. I could not imagine the drudgey of adsl now.

 

I have virgin at 100 meg download. Do i need it? Of course not but its great having it on tap.

 

has very little baring on your home network capability though, other than the fact bt home hubs are utter shite.

Posted on: 28 April 2013 by Simon-in-Suffolk

Hi Meerkat, first congrats on your superfast.. I am envious.. I think you will find at that speed your are using copper  to your local cabinet (FTTC) probably some distance away  which is fibre delivered rather than fibre delivery to your house. BT fibre broadband to your premise is at i believe 200Mbps (FTTP).

But 38Mbps will certainly give you great connectivity speeds for HD downloads, and video downloads, and should allow you to uhid multiple hidef web radio streams whilst others in the house are using the Internet for other purposes.

But if you are a light web/Internet user then by all means fall back to a regular longline ADSL which is going to be anywhere between 512kbps to 18Mbps depending on distance to your exchange.

For hidef web radio and acceptable HD downloads I would ensure your regular ADSL speed is at least around 3Mbps. Sometimes Superfast is the only way of getting an acceptable speed purely because of distance to exchange and your local cabinet, if activated, is significantly closer.

 

BTW HomeHub3 are hugely more capable than their HomeHub predecessorswhich had the bad name. You should be fine.

Simon

Posted on: 28 April 2013 by Gavin B

I don't know BT's prices, but I bet the superfast isn't very much more than the standard.  I don't think you'll save yourself very much at all.  I wish I could get Infinity-like speeds at home - we're not even on the roll-out plans yet, and unlikely ever to get cable.

Posted on: 28 April 2013 by rjstaines

Gavin, you gotta  move... 

 

(house that is)

 

Just think of what you're missing. 

Posted on: 29 April 2013 by The Meerkat
Originally Posted by garyi:

Um, broadband speed has pretty much no baring on your home local area network,

 

the only caveat where naim is concerned is iradio, which will run no doubt from a 1 meg connection.

 

However at 18 quid a month you do get the great potential of the web at large, music downloads, updates for you computer and nases etc all nice and quick. I could not imagine the drudgey of adsl now.

 

I have virgin at 100 meg download. Do i need it? Of course not but its great having it on tap.

 

has very little baring on your home network capability though, other than the fact bt home hubs are utter shite.

Hiya Gari 

 

Ha ha!  I new you'd say that, because I know how you feel about Home Hubs. To be fair though, at present it hasn't given me any trouble.

 

Good point about the radio, forgot about that! I listen to it loads! I wish I could use Virgin, but there is no cable in my area, so I have Sky. No idea what their broadband & routers are like?

 

Cheers gari

 

David 

Posted on: 29 April 2013 by The Meerkat
Originally Posted by Simon-in-Suffolk:

Hi Meerkat, first congrats on your superfast.. I am envious.. I think you will find at that speed your are using copper  to your local cabinet (FTTC) probably some distance away  which is fibre delivered rather than fibre delivery to your house. BT fibre broadband to your premise is at i believe 200Mbps (FTTP).

But 38Mbps will certainly give you great connectivity speeds for HD downloads, and video downloads, and should allow you to uhid multiple hidef web radio streams whilst others in the house are using the Internet for other purposes.

But if you are a light web/Internet user then by all means fall back to a regular longline ADSL which is going to be anywhere between 512kbps to 18Mbps depending on distance to your exchange.

For hidef web radio and acceptable HD downloads I would ensure your regular ADSL speed is at least around 3Mbps. Sometimes Superfast is the only way of getting an acceptable speed purely because of distance to exchange and your local cabinet, if activated, is significantly closer.

 

BTW HomeHub3 are hugely more capable than their HomeHub predecessorswhich had the bad name. You should be fine.

Simon

Thanks for your info Simon, very helpful.

 

regards

 

David

Posted on: 29 April 2013 by The Meerkat
Originally Posted by Gavin B:

I don't know BT's prices, but I bet the superfast isn't very much more than the standard.  I don't think you'll save yourself very much at all.  I wish I could get Infinity-like speeds at home - we're not even on the roll-out plans yet, and unlikely ever to get cable.

Thanks for your reply Gavin.

 

David