In reply to a post by Jack_Hackett:

To be honest i don't get all this chasing speed and never have, i get 65Mbps and that is fine for us, i get some people need more speed if they are working from home and sharing internet with other family members but does the average internet user need more than 65Mbps?

Those whom play these massive games on XBox or PlayStation find the faster speeds useful to update the monster large games (60GB downloads or more!!).

I would be quite happy with 60/65 Mbps, but with 15 or higher upload. Unfortunately FTTC /VDSL is often pretty awful at upload. Can't wait for FTTP with a real 80/20 service.

In reply to a post by j0hn83:

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Well said that man Kitz !

*Woman

I'm sure she's used to it.

😳😳😳😳 [embarrassed]

In reply to a post by Jack_Hackett:

In reply to a post by Rich44:

Lawks is he still at it, I remember him quibbling over 1 or 2Mbps on 8Mbps ADSL years ago. Somethings don't change. I'd have killed for those speeds g.fast or not our fastest prior to fttp next week was 7/8Mbps on fttc

Has Mr Max ever explained why he chases max speeds all the time or is it as i imagine just a need for speed.

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I give it a week for the next posts about SRA cutting the speed by a fraction to 219MBit, engineers prob then get called out to waste their time before eventually at best he cancels the upgrade, incurring more costs on yet another innocent ISP.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Those whom play these massive games on XBox or PlayStation find the faster speeds useful to update the monster large games (60GB downloads or more!!).

Indeed, they're handy for those absurdly large games. Even at the crazy download speed in my signature it takes a while.

Some of the peering speeds the content providers have into the internet exchanges is huge. Just had a squiz at one (albeit a biggie) Lon1 LINX…
Amazon 600G
Facebook 4x100G
Microsoft 2x300G
Netflix 4x100G
Sony 100G, 2x20G
Twitter 2x100G

https://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,26042.msg43...

Well I wasn't far off

In reply to a post by jpm:

Eagerly awaiting your update where you cancel within the cooling off period and cause a small provider to incur costs they aren't able to recover

It's not a necessity but fast internet certainly helps sometimes.
I was launching a racing game about quarter of an hour before I had a race and it wouldn't launch as it had corrupted.
I verified the files through Steam and it started downloading 15GB of files.
Luckily I have Virgin Media M600 or I wouldn't have been able to do the race.

It seems he upgraded to 330, against a load of advice over there and from the ISP. SRA is altering the speeds on the higher product, but didn't need to on the 160.

Ah well .

Next up he will find he can't cancel, without paying something out.

Edited by pluralist (Thu 10-Jun-21 12:04:39)

If I wasn't a gamer and wanted straight out speed, i'd give Virgin a go again.

Apparently it has improved dramatically since Adslmax was last on it in the area we live in.

I do know at the time he was on it, it was absolutely garbage around here.

You can get 350Mbps for £34 a month now.

Edited by wolvesmad (Thu 10-Jun-21 11:36:09)