Your broadband speed isn't governed by what you pay and super fast is meaningless as apparently it's all down to where you live. Which is understandable if you live in a remote area but the centre of London is a bit strange. I had my suspicions when I changed to Sky fibre and noticed little difference, I certainly get nowhere near the figures they claim, thankfully I negotiated hard and got it for free because I'd resent paying for something I simply can't get. http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/revealed_the_50_streets_with_slowest_broadband
Hi Shirley I know my Broadband will remain very slow whichever provider I choose because there is a fault in a cable under the road in our village and BT is reluctant to do anything about it because we are on a no through road so at the end of the line. I only discovered this by accident. Many people are not told the truth about speeds by their suppliers , it is a disgrace..
Broadband can be a bit hit n miss, however fibre 'should' be faster, because it uses a different cabling system. Shirley did you do a speediest.net check? Our Fibre is due on the 28th of this month...
Doesn't matter, if you read the link it's based on real life speed tests. Fibre is a bit faster but nothing like they claim, and how bizarre that Derbyshire is the fastest, least I think it was, I read the link hours ago.
A street in Essex has been named as having the slowest broadband in Britain - 30 times slower than the UK average speed. Wheatley Road in Corringham is in joint-last place with Erw Fawr, in Henryd, North Wales, with an average download speed of 0.6 Mbps. By contract, the average speed across the country is 17.8 Mbps. The speed gulf means it would take the slowest connections 15.2 hours to download an HD-quality film, while in the fastest street the same download would take just nine minutes. The fastest street is in Derbyshire - Loundes Road in Unstone gets an average download speed of 57.58 Mbps. The figures are based on almost two million speed tests run by broadband users over a six-month period. Roads in Essex feature six times in the list of the UK's 50 slowest streets - more than any other county. uSwitch, which published the data, said only 15% of Britons are enjoying broadband of 30 Mbps or higher - the speed classified by the EU as superfast. The streets of London feature in both the slowest and fastest lists. The fastest broadband measured in the capital is found in Camel Road (34.62 Mbps) in E16 - while the slowest street is Grange Gardens in Hampstead (1.19 Mbps). I scrape in just above the national average with my so called superfast fibre
I checked my broadband speed on three different speed test sites, including Bezeq International who are my ISP, and all gave me just under the UK national average. However, as I only pay for 10 Mbps and am getting ±16 Mbps and do not download films or anything else, it is more than adequate for me.
The way I see it is if I was getting anywhere near the 57.58mbps that they're getting in Derbyshire I'd have no complaints but at 19. whatever it is I don't see why I should pay for something I don't have a hope in hell of getting. Maybe they ought to charge according to the speed you actually get. How's it fair to pay for superfast broadband when superfast broadband is anything over 30mbps. They should stop trying to pull the wool over our eyes in my opinion.
Speeds are often dictated by how far or close you live to the telephone exchange - we are quite luck as we live fairly close, and that has always been reflected in our speed.
uSwitch, which published the data, said only 15% of Britons are enjoying broadband of 30 Mbps or higher - the speed classified by the EU as superfast. So why is it sold to everyone when they know full well they can't supply it.
Is there much difference between Sky fibre and Virginmedia? We have always had really good speeds and although it is supposed to be 120Mbps it runs at 105Mbps all the time although the upload could be faster.
I think so, I think virgin media is much faster but I can't have it because they say I have an outstanding debt with them of £120 from about a decade ago. Very odd because I've lived here over 16 years and never had an account with them. My son had virgin media in his bedroom when he lived here and thought it was brilliant but the debt doesn't refer to him, they claim it's definitely me. Apart from that I think it depends on where you live but as he lived in the same house we're comparing like for like. Where he lives now there is no cable available so he has BT infinity again much better than sky. If I didn't have sky fibre free for a year I would tell them where to shove it and unless it improves considerably I won't renew when the year is up.
i had no internet yesterday and was having a real paddy but as i dont pay for it i cant really complain. my dad pays £40 for BT so i just use his log in and use hotspot. it works great about 95% of time. Even managed to download films. I cant stream though.
Aargh I hate talking about broadband!! I have only had it for just over a year and it has to be by satellite and it costs me £35 a month, with a limit on download and it isn't FAIR!!!
