UK broadband is among the slowest in Europe
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Rastalovich
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Ouch. *heads off to see what other computers are doing*
dukeReinhardt
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lol i hear the reason that countries that have more recently reached first world status have faster internet is because they basically got internet later, and simply adopted faster standards as their first standard. when i was in seoul in 2007, 100mb/s seemed to be the standard. it was like... the cheapest package we could even get for the few months we were staying there, and i don't even know anyone there who has anything but 100. for the same reasons, india was supposed to get the fastest internet in the world some time ago, but not sure exactly what happened to that...
I'm amazed at Mauritania tbh: http://www.netindex.com/download/2,215/Mauritania/
MrMetallicMonkey
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I'm envious of some of the speeds shown here. Virgin ruined my area by oversubscribing. It seemed to DIP around November and never recovered since.
Josh Weston
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The average speed for the UK IS on the rise. When I got upgraded to BT Infinity (40 down, 8 up) I was getting faster than 96% of the UK. Now, i'm only faster than 92%. It's been, hmm, 6 months? Maybe more, idk.
Good god man where do u live. My phone has a faster connection speed that that.
The Orange One
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This is mine, I'm with BT [Paying for 20 mbps
seumasbeathan
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It would take me at least a week :L
seumasbeathan
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This is mine, I'm with BT [Paying for 20 mbps
Very similar to my situation, Im paying for 20 and get around what your getting
people knock virgin/cable and tbh i think they are great, i am getting double this come the end of the summer for the same cost.
i have always got what i pay for or more, middle of the night i have topped out at around 45meg.
some of you guys would be better with my mobile phone btw, i never get less than 4meg from that when i have a signal.
The Orange One
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Where abouts in the uk are you?
Solidarity
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They're great when it works. When it isn't working which is often where I'm from due to oversubscribing, it takes virgin forever to fix. It took them 3 months to fix a problem I see them fixing in other areas in about 3 weeks. I also hate their call centres. I always get the person who cannot be heard.
ruthless_villain
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Im on O2 atm and get around 4mb but the bt/plusnet engineer is coming today and then i haz fibre optics!
dipzy
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I'm on o2 as well, its got worse for me over the years, too slow now. Will have to speak to my parents about upgrading to BT Infinity2
ruthless_villain
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Its got a lot slower since i asked for my MAC code lol, doubt its a coincidence
dipzy
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lol
I've requested a new router from them and even still the connection was slow. I called them, the remote connected and changed a few thing in the router settings but still connection was slow, they said everything is fine but it wasn't and o2 would do nothing about it .
When o2 launched their broadband, it was very good, quick and cheap, but not anymore. Time to request my MAC code soon
seumasbeathan
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Western Isles - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis
We are actually getting the best speeds on the whole island :L
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