Surprisingly up graded to fibre at no extra cost in a rural area!!!!!

[Duckboy79]

So, we had an email yesterday from Talk Talk, I didn't bother looking at it straight away, it's normally crap.....

It turns out I will have fibre installed up and running within 2 weeks!

I get the basic fibre package at no extra cost, I was on 15-16Mb down, 0.8-1Mb up....... yeah crap, but I was only paying for 8Mb down and no access to fibre so HUGE surprise!

So how much will I really notice this???, 3 person house hold, 2 Home PC's, 3 phones, 3 tablets, 2 smart TV's, various other wireless devices (obviously not all at once! ha!)

I'm hoping for a big difference, really needed this good news!

Edit: I game, and they take days if not weeks to download! so yes, I'm a little happy! ha

[kalniel]

Well, fibre speeds vary too. Should be at least twice your current rates though. Will you notice it? Hmmmmmm a little bit, maybe?

[Duckboy79]

Well, fibre speeds vary too. Should be at least twice your current rates though. Will you notice it? Hmmmmmm a little bit, maybe?

OK I'm more excited about leaving my PC on over night downloading games and actually being able to play it the next day, or the day after! seen as how big games are these days, plus streaming (I hope) will be a lot better, seen as the 3 of us work the same hours, home the same hours etc

Edit: but yeah it varys, I'm just hoping/praying it's around double min lol

[ik9000]

OK I'm more excited about leaving my PC on over night downloading games and actually being able to play it the next day, or the day after! seen as how big games are these days, plus streaming (I hope) will be a lot better, seen as the 3 of us work the same hours, home the same hours etc

Edit: but yeah it varys, I'm just hoping/praying it's around double min lol

If this is in response to those new government priority plans then without wishing to dampen your homes, it might be wise to expect to receive this instead:



I'm not suggesting the clowns don't know their peach emoji from their strong arm, but well...

[Duckboy79]

If this is in response to those new government priority plans then without wishing to dampen your homes, it might be wise to expect to receive this instead:



I'm not suggesting the clowns don't know their peach emoji from their strong arm, but well...

Lmao Nice one

[DanceswithUnix]

Depends on what sort of work you do from home.

I get about 70Mb down, 18Mb up. I paid a little extra for the improved upload speed, but I send big files to the office so that is the thing that I really notice more than the download speed.

It has been rather handy over Covid, the whole family are on Teams meetings at the same time and video is rock solid.

For game downloads? Well it sounds like you should be getting about 2MB/s at the moment, that that should go up to about 6 to 7 MB/sec hopefully. So call it three times faster, something that used to take three hours to download now takes an hour.

[CausingIt]

That's a W in my book. Getting anything for free from Broadband companies has to be seen as a W. I moved house and didn't want to change provider, but they couldn't supply my broadband at the new address. So they charged me for the remainder of the contract, I was not happy.