Aye, it's all Greek to me. So what I thought was Mbps and then converted to MBps, and given as just shy of 300 Mbps for my broadband is good then?
Good luck with that! Engineer came to install Lightstream at my house today only to find they haven't finished the work on the pole! Was advertised as available in October 15 down my street, still no date of when it will finally be available. Had to take a day at home too to allow the engineer access to the property (I should send KCOM a bill for my time)
What do ee charge for usage? I own an xbox so download quite a few gb for game updates now and then With kc think i get sumn daft like 300gb usage for the month
Again, all bills in my uni accommodation is included in the rent so I don't have to worry about allowance limits.
No worries. My mate said I was talking ****e when I told him. I could hardly believe it at first considering the wired download speed at my parents' house is 3 maybe 4 mbps. Perhaps it's where they live but without Lightstream (not available where they live), I still stand by my comment that KC in East Hull is pants.
I have just got back from 3 days in the york area Dunnington and Heworth Seperate locations Both running BT lightening fast and both knocking out 34 mega wattsits Back now to snail KAROO
Lots of people in telecoms get it wrong all the time. Mbps for bandwidth and MB for storage. I am waiting for someone to demand their 1GBps link when the contract has been written incorrectly. Wouldn't be cheap especially in Hull.
As I said before my Internet seems real slow but I don't understand all this stuff. So I just did a test after clicking a link from Google on how to test and the result was 12.75 Mb/s download and 0.72 Mb/s upload But what does this mean ? And how good/bad is it?
It means you're getting OK speeds for most things as long as you don't have several people trying to watch videos simultaneously. Your upload is fine for browsing etc but not great for uploading or streaming to the internet. How good/bad depends on what you are paying, what you need it for and whether it meets those needs.
None of this thread has been about contention, which is also crucial. All internet services are shared between users, so whether it's 1:25 or 1:50 will make a big difference when everyone is at home and using the internet simultaneously. It might say in your contract what the contention ratio is.
it's decent and three times what i'm getting at the moment. whether it's good enough is up to you. i would have been happy with that speed over the last 12+ years.
I mainly just use it for browsing but the kids use it for YouTube. But a lot of my problems are after they've gone to bed. Could it be possible that it's actually the wifi from the router things that isn't any good as often when there is only me and the wife Internet browsing it won't bring up the page or takes ages
sounds like contention. people come home from work and start using the net, so you have to share. there are peak times. might be neighbours slowing things down, or your other house people doing stuff.
After weeks of sending reports to KCOM about my slow speeds, they said "The internet would work best for me if I used it around Mid-day on weekdays", well thats me sorted then, will have to bin the job off.
Obviously that's ridiculous. This contention thing really shouldn't be a big deal any more. I get a reasonably decent speed and it doesn't vary on the time of day. Most people's won't in Hull because the infrastructure should be more than enough to cope with demand. I think technically in the T&Cs it'll probably say it can fluctuate but if there are places where that happens they'd look to fix it and save themselves the grief of however many calls and emails complaining about it. People seem to have this image of ISPs wanting their customers to have slow Internet which really isn't the case.
