I’m also on Zzoomm with Home2000 and using zyxel ax7501-b0. TBB upload test is always poor for me too.

I did have what you describe about slow streaming etc but that only lasted for a couple of days and not been seen since. I believe Zzoomm did some changes as my BQM sows practically zero dropped packets.

I use cloudflare for DNS

In reply to a post by XGS_Is_On:

Economies of scale and all that. The bigger the pipe your traffic is riding on the more customers the cost of that pipe is split between.

Thank you for the update, that all makes perfect sense!

You are very welcome!

In reply to a post by XGS_Is_On:

Economies of scale and all that. The bigger the pipe your traffic is riding on the more customers the cost of that pipe is split between.

So what is the point of changing, then?

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

So what is the point of changing, then?

Not everyone is happy with the awful slow speeds of FTTC ( 38 Mbps download and 2 Mbps upload ) that you're happy with

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Not everyone is happy with the awful slow speeds of FTTC ( 38 Mbps download and 2 Mbps upload ) that you're happy with

36Mb/s download and 9 up, 36 is not awfully slow and most people don't notice the difference unless they have a load of people in the house watching 4K video at the same time. Other half have FTTP with gigaclear and most of what she does don't make a dent in it, watching a 4K video use a tiny pittance of the bandwidth. A lot of people going to FTTP will do so because they listen to the propaganda, not because they need it.
Even if I went for FTTP I would go for the slower cheaper version, but I say again, if people are not getting the speed they think they are going to get then what is the point?

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

36Mb/s download and 9 up, 36 is not awfully slow and most people don't notice the difference unless they have a load of people in the house watching 4K video at the same time.

You've been told this before, but stop assuming other people's needs. There are a range of products at various speeds over different delivery mediums. (copper pair, coax cable, FTTP) and whilst you are happy with yours, it wouldn't meet my needs. You worry about yourself Adrian.

Agreed, each thread is about the OPs circumstances only, we don't need to hear an opinion of how relatively slow FTTC is adequate each time someone posts a thread about fibre, in the same way we don't need to know a certain person's current sync statistics every time somebody else is reporting a fault.

I, for example, would be unable to work from home with 9Mbps upload.

Edited by jpm (Tue 20-Dec-22 12:35:03)

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In reply to a post by zyborg47:

36Mb/s download and 9 up, 36 is not awfully slow and most people don't notice the difference unless they have a load of people in the house watching 4K video at the same time.

You've been told this before, but stop assuming other people's needs. There are a range of products at various speeds over different delivery mediums. (copper pair, coax cable, FTTP) and whilst you are happy with yours, it wouldn't meet my needs. You worry about yourself Adrian.

The way you are saying it as if 36Mb/s is really slow, it was not that long ago that we were on 512kb/s broadband and before that dial up, now those are awfully slow, even the 3Mb/s I could get on ADSL a few years ago was awfully, slow, but 36Mb/s
is not awfully slow. If you can't cope with 36Mb/s speeds then you must be blasting your broadband, you know this you need a faster speed is all propaganda to get us onto FTTP .
sure, there are some people where the faster speed is better for them, certainly if they have a few people in the house, my neighbour but one have too teenager girls, and they have their boyfriends around, so a faster speed connection would be useful I presume. A single person in a house normally need that high speed unless they are downloading a load of large files, but many people don't as they use streaming these days.

Sorry, but I still think gets higher speed because they think they need it and get caught with the propaganda and sales rubbish, just like people do with needing the fastest best mobile phone or a few years ago the fastest computer, even if they only browsed the web and wrote the odd letter with it.

i am so glad i don't get caught up with the propaganda

Different people have different requirements, it doesn't mean they are doing anything wrong or have been captured by advertising.