I'm jelly. What's more, my phone will do 3-4x that download on 4G LTE (because there's no traffic out here in the middle of nowhere) which would be fine except for data plans.
Not bad for download, especially when it's upgraded to 100Mb for free by Virgin later this year. I'm always disappointed with the upload speeds in the UK, BT is definitely better than Virgin on that front.
The ping isn't great on the Liverpool server, but it's the only one I ever get the full 60Mb with. I get a better ping on Sheffield.
Wait until they over-provision the node you're on.
This right here.
Your current speed is a product of the lower socio-economic status of the population on your local loop (seriously, not BSing here).
Example: In our first apartment together, my wife and I had Comcast. We were literally on the border of Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor (on the Ypsi side of Carpenter Rd.) and a co-worker was in a house about 300 yards away on the Ann Arbor side (also with Comcast, but on a separate local loop). Note: At the time, 2Mbit was the top-end consumer speed.
In the afternoons after work, I could manage my full 2Mbps no problem all the way into the evening and late night while my coworker could barely manage 150kbps at the same time. She had to wait until well after midnight to be able to get back up to normal speeds.
Yeah. They started by doing battery/WiMax cases for iPhones/iPods, and then started reselling WiMax-only hotspots. Apparently, they reworked their agreement with Sprint recently so now they can offer 3(ish)G as well using the OverDrive hotspots. Their gimmick is that you get 500MB free/month, and they don't alert you unless you pay $2.99/month for the monitoring service (but it's dead-simple to check the web interface, anyway).
They also give you free data for referrals and some other junk.
When they cut the OverDrive's price to $40, I snagged one since I can always use an emergency connection.
Sprint's LTE is rolling out in MI, so I snagged one for the potential of a cheap upgrade to the LTE hotspot when it becomes available.
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Might upgrade to 100 Mbps soon. Soon...
Service: FiOS
Location: Home
Cost: $75/month (I don't subscribe to TV or home phone service, so that's just for the internet connection)
Hate you all and your fast internets. $40/month internet plan with Comcast in the city, with a million other people surrounding me on the same lines.
It has been getting slower and slower it was at an effective speed of 18/1.8 earlier.
I'm jelly. What's more, my phone will do 3-4x that download on 4G LTE (because there's no traffic out here in the middle of nowhere) which would be fine except for data plans.
Not bad for download, especially when it's upgraded to 100Mb for free by Virgin later this year. I'm always disappointed with the upload speeds in the UK, BT is definitely better than Virgin on that front.
The ping isn't great on the Liverpool server, but it's the only one I ever get the full 60Mb with. I get a better ping on Sheffield.
Dat ping:
Your current speed is a product of the lower socio-economic status of the population on your local loop (seriously, not BSing here).
Example: In our first apartment together, my wife and I had Comcast. We were literally on the border of Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor (on the Ypsi side of Carpenter Rd.) and a co-worker was in a house about 300 yards away on the Ann Arbor side (also with Comcast, but on a separate local loop). Note: At the time, 2Mbit was the top-end consumer speed.
In the afternoons after work, I could manage my full 2Mbps no problem all the way into the evening and late night while my coworker could barely manage 150kbps at the same time. She had to wait until well after midnight to be able to get back up to normal speeds.
Welcome to the steppe desert, where the Internets can here you scream, but will take a day to get back to you on that.
But lawl:
They also give you free data for referrals and some other junk.
When they cut the OverDrive's price to $40, I snagged one since I can always use an emergency connection.
Sprint's LTE is rolling out in MI, so I snagged one for the potential of a cheap upgrade to the LTE hotspot when it becomes available.