I changed from TalkTalk (originally Pipex) to BT fibre last week. Speed tests show I'm getting approx x 4 both up and down over the old. But in practice haven't noticed any difference. ;-) Although I've yet to try any streamed video, etc.
Bottleneck at the PC? Naff network card?. For web pages rendered on some PCs, there's too much junk (flash mainly) running in the background and sometimes not enough CPU grunt. Raise the incoming bandwidth and it's not really used.
For uploads & downloads, and use of streaming things inside applications I'd expect there should be a clear difference, even if it's from pipes filled by BT.
Also it should be possible to be doing multiple web things at once. Someone watching internet TV, another downloading smutty images, someone else showing another their frillies on webcam. Isn't that's what on those BT TV commercials these days tempting folks to sign on? ;-)
My websites run like greased weasel shit compared with - say - the Daily telegraph, which has so many links to so many sites that are required just for a single page! that it takes forever no matter how fast the link is.
Couldn't you have just switched physical provision from ADSL to FTTC? Always assuming you were happy with TalkTalk...
The marketing doesn't make it clear that you don't *have* to use BT as the ISP over a FTTC service. But then it's not in any bit of BT's interest to do that.
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