We get a test speed of 50Mbps on the fibre broadband & a test speed of 20Mbps on 4G mobile broadband but there's no noticeable difference when downloading files or watching a streamed video.
A lot of broadband speed talk is no more than technical semantics for the average user who doesn't spend 10 hours a day playing Call of Duty with someone in South Korea.
The most annoying time was when I had VM cable & it was very fast but things downloaded so fast that I didn't realise they'd downloaded so I'd click again & end up with multiple copies of the same file.
We get a test speed of 50Mbps on the fibre broadband & a test speed of 20Mbps on 4G mobile broadband but there's no noticeable difference when downloading files or watching a streamed video.
A lot of broadband speed talk is no more than technical semantics for the average user who doesn't spend 10 hours a day playing Call of Duty with someone in South Korea.
The most annoying time was when I had VM cable & it was very fast but things downloaded so fast that I didn't realise they'd downloaded so I'd click again & end up with multiple copies of the same file.
Thanks Diasi, I struggled in London last year with blistering speeds, blink and you’d miss something! The connection I got here (3 years ago) on 3g and a dongle, certainly didn’t seem 40% slower than what I have now either, supporting your feeling that ‘broabandspeak’ is exaggerated sophistry? I take it VOIP is the same technology as the ‘whatsapp’ feature my godson gave me when he also gifted me a ‘redundant’ smartphone
(at least 18 months old apparently) to use it on? Of course I can only call and receive other whasapp users, but for the small amounts of calls I make and get
(2 a week?) I’ve always got the good old dumbphone, with it’s £6 a month unlimited criteria available?
"I got the impression that Cass wanted to continue using his cordless landline phones so maybe when he reads our posts he can clarify it"
I’ve reasoned I could go for 4G and run it in parallel with the talktalk service
(uncontracted) while I hopefully tweek the phone system to compatibility. If its not up or it then cheap replacements are available and I could quote the exact 4G router model for syncing when ordering?
You’d think BT could see the end coming and reduce landline ‘rental’ charges by say 50% in response, but like most monopolists there blind as well as deaf?