Sky. Don't know how to check the speeds but everything seems to work quite quickly. Photo heavy threads on here aren't instantaneous but only take less than a minute.
We've got that fast fibre optic thingy with virgin. No idea what the speeds are (techno dunce), but it copes with multiple laptops, phones, Xbox, Netflix streaming etc... all on the go at the same time with no problems.
Like Busy, I'm on Orange in the French countryside but there is a project to put the whole of the Vendée on fibre optics by 2020 and it seems they're at least laying cables along the road between our nearest small town and the nearest small village. Quite when it will get here is anyone's guess.
Sometimes we have to go outside or hang out of a window to get a mobile phone signal.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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* Download speed 0.3, 97% below average. Doesn't even give me an upload speed!
At least it's working at the moment. For several years it would only work until we got a phone call and then would go off for hours, days and sometimes weeks.
Got sick of calling and them implying it was our system, just used the dongle, which works fine until the cloud comes down, then the signal goes. It would be nice to be able to use things like Netflix, but no point trying. I can just about use i player, allowing for some buffering from time to time.
I can go and get lunch between pages loading - was away over 18 minutes once ,trying to load garden gallery and it still hadn't done when I got back!
https://broadbandtest.which.co.uk/ Also another very easy one here from Which magazine. The download speed (in the middle) is the figure most people use to judge how fast and effective your connection is. Bear in mind the figures change constantly, depending on your neighbourhood usage, time of day and other things; however it will give you a sense of the ballpark you are in.
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Find out here.
https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/speedtest/
Sometimes we have to go outside or hang out of a window to get a mobile phone signal.
I remember Dial-up when you could go and make a cup of tea between pages loading!!!
At least it's working at the moment. For several years it would only work until we got a phone call and then would go off for hours, days and sometimes weeks.
Got sick of calling and them implying it was our system, just used the dongle, which works fine until the cloud comes down, then the signal goes.
It would be nice to be able to use things like Netflix, but no point trying. I can just about use i player, allowing for some buffering from time to time.
I can go and get lunch between pages loading - was away over 18 minutes once ,trying to load garden gallery and it still hadn't done when I got back!
https://broadbandtest.which.co.uk/ Also another very easy one here from Which magazine. The download speed (in the middle) is the figure most people use to judge how fast and effective your connection is. Bear in mind the figures change constantly, depending on your neighbourhood usage, time of day and other things; however it will give you a sense of the ballpark you are in.
Very broadly, under 5 is very slow, over 30 is good and over 50 is excellent (fast). Some companies (internationally) are offering super-fast fibre optic options 100 to 1000 mbps. BT launch this year what they call Ultrafast Fibre - 100 Mb speed guarantee, but it has very limited geographic availability (cabling) and is expensive.