Bluelagoon Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Firstly is there truly such a thing?I work from home and currently use Sky broadband, but I do a lot of uploading of work and could do with the fastest connection I can have.Can anyone recommend a provider who actually achieves fast broadband in this area? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/46108-super-fast-broadband/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzmoll Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 What up and down speed do you have at the moment? You can use for example http://www.speedtest.net/ to check. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/46108-super-fast-broadband/#findComment-759498 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzCrackers Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Virgin tends to be better I've found. I used sky previously and switched for same reason. Virgin has it's own problems too - the router is poor quality and sometimes stops working completely however when it does work I get 80Mbps down and 12 up pretty regularly Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/46108-super-fast-broadband/#findComment-759500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin68 Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 BT offers BT Infinity (Fibre to the cabinet) which does achieve high(ish) speeds for domestic broadband - higher speeds will be achieved if you are directly connected (by cable) to your modem/ router, and if you are not contending with other computers, mobiles, internet TV services etc. in your own house.If you have a 'busy' household and are connecting via WiFi then things will appear mcuh slower than the system will actually support, if optimised.But best case, you are talking medium to high 10s and not 100s Mbs Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/46108-super-fast-broadband/#findComment-759502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzmoll Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I am on BT fiber in Honor Oak Park - tests give me 75 down, 20 up.https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipchat.com/21107/193181/SPpfDBf3HFvXFKD/Screen%20Shot%202014-05-21%20at%2016.40.24.png Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/46108-super-fast-broadband/#findComment-759503 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miga Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 . Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/46108-super-fast-broadband/#findComment-759505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackcurrant Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I'm on BT infinity (fibre to cabinet, not all the way to house) and get about 35 megabytes per second download, 8 megabytes up, according to speedtest app. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/46108-super-fast-broadband/#findComment-759512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzmoll Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 It seems domestic operators max out around 20-50 Mbit/s up. If you need faster than that there are lots of commercial vendors in London that can make that happen, but it tends to be very expensive indeed. As an example, http://www.sohonet.com/ seems to be the common network provider amongst a lot of media companies, offering up to 10Gbit fiber solutions on dedicated fiber. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/46108-super-fast-broadband/#findComment-759628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcam Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Virgin great for us. Much better than Sky. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/46108-super-fast-broadband/#findComment-759678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodneybewes Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Virgin has a faster download if you can get it but BT tend to have a rock solid 20mb upload speed on infinity. I throw a lot of files up and down ftp and the upload is often faster than the download. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/46108-super-fast-broadband/#findComment-759933 Share on other sites More sharing options...
katanita Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Am on Zen Internet. Had a slightly rocky start getting online with them which wasn't entirely their fault, but very happy with it since. Am on their mid range fibre package, 37mbps download 8-9mbps upload. They do have a faster one as well. It's not the cheapest but I chose them because they got such good reviews. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/46108-super-fast-broadband/#findComment-759970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluelagoon Posted June 28, 2014 Author Share Posted June 28, 2014 Thank for all your responses - just run the speed test and I have:download speed of 9.36 mbpsupload speed of 0.77mbpsThis is a bit crap isn't it?The computer in question is connected by cable to the router, and is the sole computer except for the usual iPhones/iPads etc which tend to be used at different times. Might have to look into BT... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/46108-super-fast-broadband/#findComment-760090 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fkfkdkdkd Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I have the Virgin 156 Mbps service... it costs a lot and when it is working well it is lightning... but for the money it is nowhere near as good as it should be. Too many times it drops out and runs below speed. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/46108-super-fast-broadband/#findComment-760240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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