Agreed the white Openreach ONT (box that takes the fibre into it on FTTP) handles all the light optical transmission data.

On FTTP all the HH5 sees is an Ethernet signal.

4GB memory should be OK for normal browsing, web browsing is NOT 10 times faster on a 70 Mbps connection rather than a 7 Mbps. Most people see no real difference with web browsing above around 15 to 20 Mbps, the reason being that web pages are lots of discrete elements, images, text, audio, video that arrive in small chunks and the latency between you and the server for the data becomes a limiting factor.

So speed tests will be faster, video streaming should always be in HD and little or no buffering, but web pages may still take time to open. The amount of animation and special effects on a webpage can also tax the CPU, so if this is a cheap low-end windows 8.1 laptop for example it may even be the CPU or graphics card that are the issue.

When visiting complex web pages with lots of data, I can see some pages using 0.5GB of memory so its a case of looking at the CPU/Memory usage and upgrading hardware where limits are being hit.

I really appreciate all these responses I am learning a lot thank you.

So even as a performance enthusiast and obsessive guy who runs ping tests via command prompt and will be staring at the results for at least another 2 weeks - I need not concern myself with my 'line stats'???

Cheers.

As others have said with a full FTTP connection ie fibre to the house and into the back of the network termination (ONT) there are no line stats - they simply do not exist.

Is your laptop connected wired or wirelessly? If wirelessly, how is it when wired?

Are you sure you have Fibre to the premises?

Or are you mistaking it with FTTC?

In reply to a post by shinerweb:

In reply to a post by Nightglow:

Switch off unused/uneeded services in Windows 8.1 can help, but nowadays you need 8Mb memory.
Plenty of guides for this online.
Just upgraded my lappy from 3Mb to 8Mb more snappier now.

Methinks you mean Gig not Meg

And Bytes not bits

I connect wired for running any tests or big downloads.

I am fairly sure it's FTTP as they ran a fibre cable all the way to a small box outside my house and then drilled a hole in my wall and fed fibre cable to an open reach modem which my home hub 5 is connected to. The guy also let me watch as he used a fancy device to fuse the fibre optic cable together etc I can also get 300MB should I wish to pay more - and the icing on the cake was... he told me in was fibre to the premises

When I ping www.sky.com I get 9's and 10ms's

Seems solid so far but early days yet, only been connected about 3 days.

Really appreciate all the replies

Here is to thinkbroadband

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\******>ping www.thinkbroadband.com -n 10

Pinging www.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.130] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=56
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=56
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=56
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=56
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=56
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=56
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=56
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=56
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=56
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 80.249.99.130:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 11ms, Average = 10ms

y'all know that 11 [censored] me right off. lol

Edited by deleted (Fri 29-May-15 16:50:20)

In reply to a post by Fenn:

I connect wired for running any tests or big downloads.

But it was sluggish browsing you were complaining about. You imply now that is wireless, which is what I was asking, and that could easily explain the relative sluggishness. Also browsing can be making many calls per page to several sites, and their response times can vary independently of your speed to your ISP. Unlike speed tests and large downloads.

My apologies, for clarification I would never judge anything when wireless, I'm only occasionally wireless and any issues at all I would plug in to eliminate that.

Sluggish is probably a little extreme of a word as well, but your explanation makes much sense and thank you