This was at Brum airport. Where I live in rural Wales, using standard ADSL, we get no more than 7Mb/s down and 0.25Mb/s up.
You get more than I do on a good day. Sometime I can't even watch catch up TV because it never stops buffering.
Can't even get a connection over here sometimes, luck if I get 1 MB/S. Forget about "streaming videos"
I get a fairly consistent I get about 16Mbit downstream and 1.3Mbit upstream on Vodafone round about here, home ADSL is 11 down and 0.8 up usually. I get fibre as of late next Monday
My next journey will be to get fibre to the front door. I will review once my BT contract is up and check availability, here's hopin' https://hyperoptic.com/
That's about what we get in Manila these days and we actually get more than we pay for. PLDT have been rolling out fibre in parts of Metro Manila for a while and are claiming 50 Mbps unlimited for the princely sum of about 40 quid a month!
That's really good for Manila. I remember about ten years ago sitting in a hotel corridor with lizards running the walls, getting 100kbs.
I remember 12 years ago sitting in a Manila hotel with an RS232 cable getting 56K if I was lucky When we were in the Condo from 2005 we had PLDT at about 384Kbps down and a couple of hundred up, but the service we get now from PLDT is actually pretty good but stupidly expensive.
I also remember sitting in the UK in 1988-89 with a 9600 baud internal modem card that my mate had bought for me for around about a grand when I first started working from home for him, ah the days of telnet and real bulletin boards
I went online first in 1995. I found it amazing I could 'talk' to different people from different cultures. Chat rooms were generally friendly, and I found the internet quite a positive place. I suppose there's a greater commercial element now.
I was getting around 2.5 meg down and 0.5 meg up on ADSL which is not really good enough to reliably stream. The exchange is 3 miles away. Now have Fibre to the Cabinet but the cabinet is half a mile away so it was not worth getting 76 Meg Fibre but I do get 37 Meg on a 38 Meg fibre connection but TalkTalk limits upload to less than 2 Meg. When using a Triple VPN (which is most of the time) the speed is rather variable (5-25 Meg)
I've been getting that speed since the investigations here. It's OK for most things and is good most times. No real need to upgrade at the mo Glad you like it
That's the thing even when you get faster speeds a lot of sites can't actually serve you a page any quicker, when I get fibre next week the main benefit should be that I can now work properly on one machine while watching a movie on the other, at the moment some of the stuff I do during development work can impact on the quality of playback of a movie for example.
