New ISP

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.

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Dave Plowman (News)
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Which Internet provider are you using?

Gordon

Reply to
Gordon Henderson

I hope it's not BT.

Reply to
Mark

What did you really expect?

I went from 2Mb to 15Mb+ to the exchange (copper ADSL, not fibre) but iPlayer can still pause at busy times.

MBQ

Reply to
Man at B&Q

BT.

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

So all the ads we see on TV etc are lying?

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

The pipes can be as big as you like, it's then up to how many bits/sec they shovel in at the other end.....

Reply to
Phil

That's what I thought. But today, the car forums I look at are slower than ever. Two are UK, one, US.

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

It's still a contended service. You are sharing a fixed bandwidth with god knows how many others who may chose to take their share.

If the isp's kit or the links are busy - no pommes frites. A less contended service would perform better but would be more expensive.

When all's said and done the thing is...

Are you getting your share ?

DerekG

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DerekG

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? ;-)

Reply to
Adrian C

It took you a long time to work that one out!

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

And who in any given case, 'they' are

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.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

Don't think so. Unless all four are bad. ;-)

Yes - I've yet to try it on streamed stuff. Must remember and check the PVR on iPlayer.

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Dave Plowman (News)

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.

Reply to
Dave Liquorice

True, but if your pipe can't carry the required bit rate you are stuffed either way!

Reply to
John Rumm

Have you got adblock loaded in your browser - amazing the amount of crap saves downloading and looking at ;-)

Reply to
John Rumm

I was getting stutters on flash players then I noticed it was defaulting to a mere 100K buffering. right click on the video and set up 'unlimited'

I was badly caught out in on-line game when my timed backup screwed the internet connection...nearly got killed by a fluffy rabbit!

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

yeah. I have. BUT its a faff to set up.

I do it for sites I really use a lot or sites that are SO slow..

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

No need to do any setting up if you subscribe it to a block list.

Go to filter preferences to configure a filter list provider.

Reply to
John Rumm

Enchanted Rabbit with the Carrot of Power or The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog?

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Dave Liquorice

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