According to XKCD's What If on this subject, the above quote is from Andrew Tanenbaum, and FedEx will still be able to out-deliver the internet for a couple of decades
According to XKCD's What If on this subject, the above quote is from Andrew Tanenbaum, and FedEx will still be able to out-deliver the internet for a couple of decades
iworrall (17-01-2018)
I vaguely remember a thread on a forum about 18 years ago (pre ADSL) asking what was the best accelerator program as the person needed to transfer a large file to (I think) South Africa. After some debate, the conclusion was that quickest way was to burn it to CD and courier it there.
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There have been several instances over the past few years of data transfer between sites being quicker by carrier pigeon (with SD card,) than Internet.
So much so it was the subject of an April fool day RFC for IP over Avian carriers https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549
The conclusion is the bandwidth is impressive but the latency is pretty high.
Sadly I moved 6 months prior to the upgrade to 300mb in my area, to somewhere without Virgin Media, the 150Mbps service was brilliant and rarely dropped below 150Mbps. Nice area I moved to, shame about the horrible BT rubbish infrastructure.
Indeed, not mine.
**If you're lucky
I'm meant to get a guaranteed minimum of 34.8mb, I've given up phoning to get a BT engineer out to reset the cap on the line.
Well to be fair, you could probably exclude the wind part, considering the cables are underground.
Let's be honest though, in most cases the real issue is the wider infrastructure, not your personal connection to the local exchange.
On EE FTTC, I've just run 3 speedtests. The first, using the automatically chosen server, had a download of ~ 13Mbps. The second, using a server that was physically further away but that I guessed might be in a less contended area of the country, hit 22Mbps. The third, to a server that is physically closer but in a location that I know is contended to all hell, managed a whopping 4.5Mbps. That's three readings, all done within a few minutes of each other, on the same connection, with a 4x speed up from slowest to fastest. So how do you regulate that connection speed?
But that is the connection to the exchange, not to any old server, as Scaryjim says above.
This link might help http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/d...roadband-speed
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i no long trust this company. i used to buy their products from frys electronics. they kept going down prematurely. they had the fasted cd/dvdrom drives at the time, they just kept going out.
Calling 152Mbps and 314Mbps "ultrafast" in 2018 really is overselling it something awful....
Newsflash - you're still on BT. Sky merely resells a BT Openreach circuit and also uses them for a chunk of their backhaul too, so you're still a BT customer but you now have a middle man to contend with when you do have a problem. Sky can only offer you what BT already have available. You can also bet your right arm that it will take some time before BT have the processes in place to allow them to resell the new service, so it won't be available to Sky customers immediately once BT have it available in your area.
Also, you're stuffed for your own choice of hardware because Sky won't give out passwords to allow you to setup your own router, which is an insurmountable deal breaker. Sky could be offering 10Gb for free and I still couldn't take it because it would be as much use as chocolate fire-guard without the ability to configure my own hardware.
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