LOL
I admit I hadn't thought of watching downloaded videos on a long flight. Though nine hours is veree longggg. Doing it frequently unless compelled by business is also not common.

I was just being cynical really, in the whole of that exchange, as I genuinely think his parents will have only got it because he pushed them. I'm sure what they had was satisfactory.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

LOL
I admit I hadn't thought of watching downloaded videos on a long flight. Though nine hours is veree longggg. Doing it frequently unless compelled by business is also not common.

I was just being cynical really, in the whole of that exchange, as I genuinely think his parents will have only got it because he pushed them. I'm sure what they had was satisfactory.

You make too many assumptions about things. I didn't even know they had ordered until afterwards. My parents use the internet a lot and have many tech gadgets, without them I would not have got into the world of computing and the internet myself.

Also you didn't think about the fact it's cheaper to download as much as possible before you travel abroad as it keeps the roaming costs down.

Why spend loads of money going abroad when you are going to watch hours and hours of downloaded videos when you get there? It doesn�t add up!

When I go abroad it is to discover or revisit a different country from this one, with a different culture and lifestyle. Or do your parents always look for the nearest �English Fish & Chip shop� and take it home to eat while watching a bog standard video? Staying in a huge hotel that offers a Full English Breakfast.

I get the feeling you are making all this up with hypothetical scenarios.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Why spend loads of money going abroad when you are going to watch hours and hours of downloaded videos when you get there? It doesn�t add up!

When I go abroad it is to discover or revisit a different country from this one, with a different culture and lifestyle. Or do your parents always look for the nearest �English Fish & Chip shop� and take it home to eat while watching a bog standard video? Staying in a huge hotel that offers a Full English Breakfast.

I get the feeling you are making all this up with hypothetical scenarios.

Actually you sound very much like a bitter troll who likes to holiday in Benidorm. Hope you are happy there this summer. Sorry you don't like the fact people have lives outside of the internet, but when they do use it like to have the best they can get. But I'm sure your response will be more hateful trolling rather than just saying yeah I see your point.

I have never been to Benidorm or any remotely similar place, (which is surely obvious from my post), but many times to the complete opposite in the Austrian and Italian Alps outside the skiing season. With no means of access to the internet, videos or downloads, and never buying or looking at a newspaper.

All I am saying is that I don't believe your protestations about the advantages for your parents of the gains from an increase from 65Mbps to 140Mbps, which in itself is for many posters here subject to low peak-time performance.

How that translates into my being a troll with the proclivities you suggest I have no idea, but you are entitled to your completely inaccurate opinion about me and perhaps everything that matters.

A doubling in connection speed from 65Mbps to 140Mbps can be very useful for anybody involved in a business that relies on very fast connectivity, (many in this forum have paid for FTTPoD on commercial grounds), and these days also for a household with two or three teenage children. But for your parents? Really?

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 27-May-19 03:53:54)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

A doubling in connection speed from 65Mbps to 140Mbps can be very useful for anybody involved in a business that relies on very fast connectivity, (many in this forum have paid for FTTPoD on commercial grounds), and these days also for a household with two or three teenage children. But for your parents? Really?

So you want to discriminate those households that just want faster speeds but only contain one or two people? wow, you really are ignorant about todays society.

I agree totally with you, he's very opinionated and often over steps the mark, in my opinion he's attacking you for absolutely no reason other than he can and somehow gets away with it. Unfortunately I've found quite a few forums who have a member like that.

I happen to be the parent in our household, along with my wife, yet with only one child now regularly at home I chose Vivid 350, could we manage with less, of course but I have the choice!

Section closed in the hope that people will back down from the confrontation

Edited by MrSaffron (Mon 27-May-19 14:38:37)

I remember a similar case.

https://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/t/4618946-re...

^ this is why I don't trust DSL Checker for G.Fast as it will get less than these estimate speed set by BTw

Edited by adslmax (Mon 27-May-19 14:13:38)