How does that work then?

[Tim Lamb]

Crackly telephone line eventually degraded from 13Mb to around 0.9Mb. Load times extended as expected. Usenet no visible difference:-) However, Netflix operates as normal!

[Theo]

They probably degrade the quality of your video to reduce bandwidth - eg you are paying for 4K, you get 360p instead. You may or may not notice, depending on the quality of your display, the source material, and your eyes.

Theo

[Andrew]

I hope you reported it as a telephony fault (151?) and not made a pointless lengthy call to those useless people in India ?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Usenet grew up over 9600 baud modems= 9.6kbps No idea why netflix still appears to work. generally need 1.5Mbps plus for SD video. Maybe its automatically downgraded its quality.

[Tim Lamb]

Hmm. I reported through the John Lewis site. Supposed to be some action by April 1st!!

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[John Walliker]

It could be worse. When BT were preparing my exchange for VDSL they managed to spend a whole weekend wrongly wiring up all the connections so that pairs were split between pairs of subscribers - or something. This broke all telephone service for a lot of people and it took until the following Thursday before they fixed it. Fortunately, ADSL internet speeds were only halved as a result of being capacitively coupled and VoIP telephony (and video streaming) worked just fine.

On the other hand, the biggest improvement in ADSL internet service in the area came when the local "travellers" decided one night that it was time for BT to replace a few hundred metres of very large (and poor quality) cable adjacent to the exchange.

John

[Colin Bignell]

Which year?

[Tim Lamb]

Ha! 3 days and counting..

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[SH]

0.9 Mb... you have my deepest sympathies

Mine is not too shabby though....

[Tim Lamb]

Crikey! Do you have gamers in the family?

[SH]

no, I only have a baby and a toddler..... :-)

All we stream is usually Netflix or Disney in HD....

not bad for 35 quid a month though.....