News - UK’s average broadband download speed is 12Mbps

[HEXUS]

The UK's broadband download speed average has trebled in the last four years.

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[Biscuit]

Brace yourself for the 'But im only getting 2Mbps' waaa waaa waaa


I think BT Infinity has a lot to do with this!

[Phage]

Bah !

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I only get 3MB and live in the most populated area of the country.

[MrBozack]

I live next door to a phone exchange. My ISP has LLU operator presence. On a good night I can squeeze 20mb/s from the copper wire. Pretty nice for rural UK.

....but my Powerline connectors cut the ethernet down to 12mb/s!
I also wonder how Ofcom gathered this data, and how accurate you can measure so much data. :-D

[Scribe]

I'm sitting on typically 11Mbit. This news may look good however you'll soon find that the improvements in average speed slow-down, as the places BT and Virgin plan never to run new fibre to become apparent.

[TheAnimus]

Lies damned lies and statistics.

The 'average' speed when looking for equality rather than resource consumption really should not be quoted with the mean.

I get 80mbits, a mate of mine gets 1mbits. If looking only at the two of us, our average would be over 40mbits.

[jimbouk]

Shame I still can't stream Lovefilm in HD at peak times...

[TTrSquared]

meh, wish Google fibre would come to the UK.

[crossy]

I live next door to a phone exchange. My ISP has LLU operator presence. On a good night I can squeeze 20mb/s from the copper wire. Pretty nice for rural UK. ....but my Powerline connectors cut the ethernet down to 12mb/s!

Are you using "AV" spec PLE's or just normal ones? Just fired up the stats page for my Devolo's and they're claiming between 85 and 160Mb/s (although that's duplex speeds - so 40ish and 80Mb/s real speed). Plus I've been able to download Origin games at around 4-5MB/s and from Steam at 6-7MB/s this week, (one more reason that Steam is better than Origin)

If you're using AV spec PLE's - which have that 200Mb/s duplex rating - you might want to check if there's new firmware for the plugs or maybe look at changing placements. I switched the PLE supplying my "computer room" (two servers) closer to the mains socket and got nearly 50% better peak throughput, although I also did a firmware upgrade at the same time.

Lies damned lies and statistics. ... I get 80mbits, a mate of mine gets 1mbits. If looking only at the two of us, our average would be over 40mbits.

Well that's over 3x the average so what the heck are you complaining about?!

Joking aside, I know what you mean, e.g. Virgin rate my line at 60Mb/s but I've never seen more than 2/3's of that. Whereas my old 20Mb/s line habitually got up to it's "headline" speed. I can't help thinking that this kind of headline is more about government PR for how we're ahead of the competition, etc than real progress.

What's needed is for both BT and Virgin to focus less on headline speeds and more on coverage.

[Jay]

10 times faster than my speed! Nice.

Brace yourself for the 'But im only getting 2Mbps' waaa waaa waaa


I think BT Infinity has a lot to do with this!

Yup

[NitrousX]

Post Code lottery that sucks i wish i had the average speed of 12Mbps but unfortunately i live in one of the mentioned rural areas. The average speed i get is between 8-6mbps, on a good day i can get over 10mbps. People in rural areas should not have to get a loan to get decent broadband speed it should in fact be coming out of the Tax that we pay smh.

[realstock]

I would like to see a average graphs on what the potential average broadband speed would be, if everyone included in this survey purchased the fastest possible speed they could get in their area.

Virgin along with Infinity packages have varying speeds and costs, which in this financial climate is an important factor.

Why would you purchase 76MB infinity if your up to 8MB ADSL was more than sufficient.

[zarnywoop]

Someone should tell my telephone line, as I only get 3.5mb at best and im in middle of manchester

[3dcandy]

zarnywoop - throw out the crap filters you got with your router and buy a decent one!

[zaph0d]

Someone should tell my telephone line, as I only get 3.5mb at best and im in middle of manchester

Well at least you're getting faster speeds than a lot of the Virgin Cable customers in your area, look at the Virgin Broadband forums, there's folks on there getting less than 512k, have Massive packet loss and ping times measured in "S" not "ms". So much for "Britain's Fastest Broadband"

And the flunkies keep putting posts stating the low speed and high pings are not caused by "Over Subscription" or "Over Utilization" and say that work is due to be carried out to fix the issues with dates scheduled 2-3 months later with the addendum "(dates subject to change)" always tacked on.