Internet connection speeds... How fast or slow is yours.

[damoegan]

Thats as fast as we can get in our area... Only bad thing about living in the sticks 

[JPC]

Anyone used to use compuserve? That's really old school free serve was the newer cooler service at th time haha. Didn't yahoo buy free serve?

Yes we did on a windows 3.1 machine and 9600kbps modem... email address was somethings like 106125.61@compuserve.com 



We are talking 1995 here.... freeserve came a few years later.

OMG! wow that takes me back, haha!

[Trowbridge]

 

[Duke]

VM 60mbit

[edd666999]

Yeah its nice having a true 30 up 30 down

[s3kel]

Talk talk ..

[skard]

Anyone used to use compuserve? That's really old school free serve was the newer cooler service at th time haha. Didn't yahoo buy free serve?

We had Compuserve with our 14.4kbps Apple Mac Performa, unreal how quickly it progressed from there. That really was painful. Uploading to Geocities took forever!

Also recall getting 512kbps from Telewest and thinking it was amazing - multiple Audiogalaxy downloads at the same time!!

[RedRobin]

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I've noticed that TalkTalk seem to be performing the slowest compared with the others here - Is that due to a user's location or due to a TalkTalk package?

[Tamiyoman]

Worst thing is how slow we have been to catch up with the Asian countries on broadband, I remember when I was living in Singapore (2000 to 2002), in 2000 we had 8mb Broadband and in 2001 we had 16mb, think they have 200mb now 

[damoegan]

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I've noticed that TalkTalk seem to be performing the slowest compared with the others here - Is that due to a user's location or due to a TalkTalk package?

I was with Talk Talk for years. At first they were great, comparible speed to everyone else but cheaper than most...

Over the years they have increased the prices but fell behind in the speed department. We even started to get dropout and slow speeds more regulary over the last few years.

Got so sick I eventually changed to BT last year. Comparable price wise and our speed doubled and is soo much stronger 

[Golfgirl]

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I've noticed that TalkTalk seem to be performing the slowest compared with the others here - Is that due to a user's location or due to a TalkTalk package?

I was with Talk Talk for years. At first they were great, comparible speed to everyone else but cheaper than most...

Over the years they have increased the prices but fell behind in the speed department. We even started to get dropout and slow speeds more regulary over the last few years.

Got so sick I eventually changed to BT last year. Comparable price wise and our speed doubled and is soo much stronger 

That's my main reason for switching from Talk Talk to BT. I can't play videos or stream music without it constantly buffering.   Both neighbours are with BT and have faster speeds then me so I thought I'd give them a try.

Part of my reason for slow speeds is living in a semi-rural area.  I'm about 1.5-2 miles from the exchange too.

[Golfgirl]

 

That's 3 times faster than mine .  Just done another speed test and it came out as 1.04 Mbp/s

[RedRobin]

That's my main reason for switching from Talk Talk to BT. I can't play videos or stream music without it constantly buffering.   Both neighbours are with BT and have faster speeds then me so I thought I'd give them a try.

Part of my reason for slow speeds is living in a semi-rural area.  I'm about 1.5-2 miles from the exchange too.

....I don't have any music of video buffering probs but having faster performance is always a good thing.

Did you have to dump your TalkTalk email address when you switched to BT?

And did it cost you anything to end your TalkTalk contract?

[damoegan]

Cost us nothing Robin, end of contract. I never used the Talk Talk email address they gave me..

[Hurdy]

Mine is 55 meg download and 11-12 meg upload. Not bad considering that before I upgraded it was 1.1 meg max download and kept throwing me off the net every 15 mins or so.