the average speed of Internet connection in UK is ...

Just done a test at 221.04 Mbps.

Good god! 

I'm at a fairly healthy, or so I thought, 76Mbps average 

Who's providing yours [@mention:1566878604011917]

JamieWednesday posted:

Just done a test at 221.04 Mbps.

In southern Europe is almost science fiction, we will reach those levels when someone discover the teleportation of people and things

Good evening from the Scottish Borders. Fastest speed I have seen here is 2.5 Mbps, a few weeks ago it was 250 kbps, yep that's right, kilo bits/sec. Still pay full amount to good old British Telecom though. 50 Mbps is available about 2 miles from here where fibre optic cable is installed, but copper wire through the countryside for me . Telephone sounds better with copper haha.

The average according to Ookla is around 20mbs.  At home I get 75mbs downlink & 19mbs uplink & I don't really see why I need more, TV streaming is OK & that seems to be the biggest challenge.  I'm using a 10mbs hotel line at mo, it's OK & Internet & various app functions all work,  the big problem is the hotel WAP coverage & maybe that might be an issue with a few home users.

Lucky you with copper.  We have the old cheapo aluminium lines here in rural Kent.  I've just tried a speed check and astonishingly the Broadband appears to be too slow and unreliable to load a speed checker...

Mmm...I know nothing about this sort of stuff but I just speed tested my ADSL line and I am getting  37.32mbps down link and 1.85mbps uplink, is this any good? I'm not sure if it's enough for good sound quality?

I mainly stream Qobuz using their subscription HiFi service and watch a bit of youtube every now and then, don't seem to get any issues even with the wireless.

P.S. this is what puts me off getting a streamer, i'm easily confused when it comes to networking.

Here in North Somerset I get around 6mbps but the village a mile away gets 20+ - it's still a lottery. Actually I manage quite well - zero drop outs on Tidal but Radio Paradise suffers around tea time which is more about contention than speed.

I use Virgin's 200 Mbps service. Fortunately our house was built with cable and, whether the old days of NTL or now Virgin, it's always been pretty much faultless and is usually running higher than whatever the advertised speed is/was (bar a recent blip when their engineer made a hash of one of the connections when installing the TV boxes and that iddy biddy mistake sent our speed down to about 8 Mbps!) What the speed does do is let a house of 5 people, usually with 60% of them streaming something, do what they want to do in their own kind of online harmony...

It can vary, I've been with Virgin for a long time and used to get 120 all day every day until it suddenly dropped off and stayed below 50 for two years.  Lots of complaints later and a move to 200 Mbpds with the Superhub 3 and V6 boxes and it's back to being brilliant exceeding 200 Mbps regularly. 

In the rural Yorkshire Dales, speed test was 40 mbps....BT promise 54....so engineer coming next week...

blurb says that 75 mbps may also be available....

Current connections seem slow...like most folks maybe we have too many items connected - partic by Wi-Fi...

Have a good evening

Gent (Belgie) : cable Telenet

download: 191 mbps

upload: 18,23 Mbps

good evening 

72Mbps with Virgin in Fareham, Hampshire

JamieWednesday posted:

 Fortunately our house was built with cable...

That's rather unusual James. I mean, isn't it a bit wobbly?

On our previous BT line we just managed 1Mb, but then an enterprising local chap set up a microwave system, broadcast from a nearby church steeple. We now get 24Mb, which is pretty decent. It's line of sight only, so I act as a relay station for my neighbours.

Over a year ago we were most surprised to see engineers installing fibre optic cables down our little rural cul-de-sac. However, since then we've heard nothing more & despite many attempts we've been unable to find out when it's likely to be connected to our houses.

I'd like a way to record the peaks and (more likely) troughs of download speeds over a period (a day or more).  Any speed tests show us as having 20-25M but there are still times when our video streaming struggles. I find it impossible to know whether these streaming issues are down to dips in the download speeds or server issues with the streaming service provider.

Average speed in my neighborhood in US is 960 Mbs down and 880 Mbs up. 

Hi

About 9.0 Mb/s on the down 0.85 Mb/s on the up in fairly rural France from Orange. However its reliable & there is a large roll of fibre cable steadily progressing installation for our exchange!

tonym posted:

JamieWednesday posted:

 Fortunately our house was built with cable...

That's rather unusual James. I mean, isn't it a bit wobbly?

Boom tish..!

Gavin B posted:

I'd like a way to record the peaks and (more likely) troughs of download speeds over a period (a day or more).  Any speed tests show us as having 20-25M but there are still times when our video streaming struggles. I find it impossible to know whether these streaming issues are down to dips in the download speeds or server issues with the streaming service provider.

Could you not do a quick speed test at the time of streaming?

I get 240Mbps download and 28Mbps upload with Karoo Lightspeed.

4.5 Mb here on our crumbling copper infrastructure, until another bit of it breaks and the Open Reach guys go out and put more sticking plasters on it. When it works, that's enough to stream 16/44 Tidal reliably with no dropouts.

27 down, 6 up. A huge leap from our previous 6 down 1 up of a few months ago. Albeit at an additional cost. The difference is noticeable and the performance is good enough. This week.

17mbs but could do 76mbs if I decided to go with superfast broadband. My exchange is about 70 yards away.

Rock solid speed day in and day out with no fair usage policy or squashing broadband.