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Broadband. What've you got?

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
edited March 2018 in The potting shed
I thought it might be interesting to see what other's can see.
1* is @#*¡ and 5* is up for anything -  and fast
In London. Keen but lazy.

Broadband. What've you got? 30 votes

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ObelixxLynCebeBusy-Lizzienutcutlet 5 votes
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TopbirdDaisy33raisingirl 3 votes
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Singing GardenerPauline 7 2 votes
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Pete.8KT53Fishy65YviesteviemadpenguinGarden noob[Deleted User] 7 votes
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DovefromabovePapi JoKitty 2BeefleyDave HumbyMark56Bright starSkandipaul_in_surreySussexsunFire[Deleted User]Hampshire Hog 13 votes
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  • Mark56Mark56 Posts: 1,653
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    Super fast Virgin fibre optic, they installed special wires - down to the gamers in the house, I now reap the perks it seems!
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
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    somewhere between slow and stop


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    If you can see everything  that's posted immediately *****
    If you get stripes and give up *
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
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    We did once reach 3 thingummies in whatever


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Have one gold star then, nut o:)
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
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    thanks B3. It's an old long wire between us and anything else


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
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    Virgin cable ... I just measured our download speed ... 10.89Mbps. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    edited March 2018
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    On a good day we have 6Mbps - but it’s unreliable & sometimes it’s down to 3 or less. No access to superfast broadband so this is a fact of life rather than a lifestyle choice.

    It’s good enough for day to day stuff but unable to stream HD TV and films and large photos on here load line by painful line.

    Not too bad if it’s just one photo but I’ve had to stop using any photo heavy threads. That includes the Garden Gallery and quite a few of the new plant ID’s and requests for help with garden design etc.


    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
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    It's OK, we get about 5 Mbps unless it's raining, when we get about 0.5. And it drops out completely at least twice a day and some days every 30 minutes or so. It goes off, blinks for a minute, then comes back on again. That's unless one of the neighbours has complained about it going off. At which point BT Openreach come out and twiddle with the connections in the box so whoever complained gets a better connection and one of the other ten people on this line will get the dodgy wire, until THEY complain and Openreach swap them round again. It was our turn for the dodgy wire just around Christmas. I think the next but one has it at the moment. It'll come back round to us sometime in the summer, I expect.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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