Some questions about broadband speeds

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Some questions about broadband speeds
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* Mitas	Oct 29 2017, 09:43 PM Post #1
It truly was a Shawshank redemption Posts: 12,129 Group: Retired Staff Member #2,993 Joined: December 16, 2007 Gender Male Favourite Anime DBZ What Browser do you use? Google Chrome Favourite Manga DBZ, Full Metal Alchemist	We're looking into changing broadband providers and I was wondering if anybody could help with questions regarding speed. Basically, with our current provider the advertised 'up to' speed is 100mb, but we get around 30-40mb through various speed checks. That's fine. The question is, if we change to a cheaper package with a different provider that has an 'up to' speed of 52mb, would that have any impact on our 30-40mb speed? What I'm wondering is are the 'up to' speeds moot if the speed you're getting is under them anyway i.e. we're getting 30-40mb, so it doesn't matter if we get a 100mb package or a 52mb one, we'll still get that 30-40. Or is it like a percentage? So if you're getting 30-40 on a 100 speed connection, you'll get 15-20 on a 52mb one (because the 'up to' speed is 50% lower). If it helps, the provider we're considering changing to advertises that they run in this area about 100 yards from our house, but I have no frame of reference so don't know if that's close or not.
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+ Pelador	Oct 29 2017, 10:02 PM Post #2
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	The "Up to" depends on the type of cables used, how far you are from the telephone exchange and sometimes even what type of day it is. Also be aware that some companies are known to throttle your connection at certain times of the day or if you use x amount of bandwidth. So read up if your provider is known for doing that.
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Rockman	Oct 31 2017, 11:10 PM Post #3
hoighty-toighty Posts: 11,070 Group: Guardian Member #48 Joined: December 17, 2004 Gender Male Country United States What Browser do you use? Firefox, when it isn't crashing.	A word of wisdom from a recent event that happened to me. My wifi router when it updated to protect against the latest WPS2 hack, enabled QoS without me knowing about it. Suddenly my down speed was half what I was getting before. It had by default set all of my devices to normal priority and halved all of their speeds. Do check this to ensure you're on the highest priority of your QoS, or disable it. It could help you if you're not aware like I was. Also sometimes, an UP TO speed isn't always true in a good way. For instance I have 50mbps down package, but I usually get about 70. It could go the opposite way also.
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Daniel	Nov 2 2017, 12:43 PM Post #4
I like Pokémon Posts: 2,576 Group: Beautiful Mind Member #5,540 Joined: December 22, 2010 Gender Male Country Canada Favourite Anime Dragonball Z, Death Note, Attack on Titan, One Punch Man, Yu Yu Hakusho, I like a lot of stuff. What Browser do you use? Google Chrome Favourite Manga Deathnote, Black Cat, Attack on Titan, I like a lot of stuff.	Mitas, you're from England right? I'm assuming you're looking at BT's Fibre Infinity 1 package if the advertised speed is up to 52mb. Fibre generally provides much more stable speeds than broadband and are usually reflective of the advertised speed. I have the Infinity 2 package which is "up to 72mb", and I get 60-62 down over wireless, and 68-70 over wired. If you're on ethernet, I'm fairly confident you'll get 40+ on BT. EDIT: Also yes, Engineers advice is very important, sometimes people don't realize they're throttling their own speeds. It's worth a look if your speeds are drastically lower than advertised. Edited by Daniel, Nov 2 2017, 12:45 PM.



* Mitas	Nov 2 2017, 10:01 PM Post #5
It truly was a Shawshank redemption Posts: 12,129 Group: Retired Staff Member #2,993 Joined: December 16, 2007 Gender Male Favourite Anime DBZ What Browser do you use? Google Chrome Favourite Manga DBZ, Full Metal Alchemist	Yeah, that was the package we were looking at. We ended up staying with Virgin and it turns out the reason our speeds were that much slower is because our router actually maxes out at 50, instead of 100, so they're sending a new one tomorrow. That probably means we'd get similar speeds with the BT package and we do have a period of time to cancel the Virgin and switch over, which I think we might do because my Granddad wants BT Sports which comes free with BT.
	"Then you've got the chance to do better next time." "Next time?" "Course. Doing better next time. That's what life is."


Rockman	Nov 2 2017, 11:18 PM Post #6
hoighty-toighty Posts: 11,070 Group: Guardian Member #48 Joined: December 17, 2004 Gender Male Country United States What Browser do you use? Firefox, when it isn't crashing.	Mitas Nov 2 2017, 10:01 PM Yeah, that was the package we were looking at. We ended up staying with Virgin and it turns out the reason our speeds were that much slower is because our router actually maxes out at 50, instead of 100, so they're sending a new one tomorrow. That probably means we'd get similar speeds with the BT package and we do have a period of time to cancel the Virgin and switch over, which I think we might do because my Granddad wants BT Sports which comes free with BT. Damn that's a kicker. Were you using theirs?
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* Mitas	Nov 2 2017, 11:22 PM Post #7
It truly was a Shawshank redemption Posts: 12,129 Group: Retired Staff Member #2,993 Joined: December 16, 2007 Gender Male Favourite Anime DBZ What Browser do you use? Google Chrome Favourite Manga DBZ, Full Metal Alchemist	As in the Virgin router? Yeah. Or if you meant using my Grandad's broadband, I live with my Grandparents.
	"Then you've got the chance to do better next time." "Next time?" "Course. Doing better next time. That's what life is."


+ Pelador	Nov 2 2017, 11:28 PM Post #8
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	My only problem with our Virgin router is that it has its reset button inside a small hole. So we have to use this little D&D figure to poke it when the packets start to get built up.
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Rockman	Nov 3 2017, 01:08 AM Post #9
hoighty-toighty Posts: 11,070 Group: Guardian Member #48 Joined: December 17, 2004 Gender Male Country United States What Browser do you use? Firefox, when it isn't crashing.	Yeah Virgin's. You can't buy your own?
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