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Default OT The joys of BT

On Wednesday, 31 August 2016 11:41:19 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 31/08/16 11:07, Huge wrote:
On 2016-08-31, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Mike Tomlinson
scribeth thus
En el artÃ*culo , tony sayer
escribió:

No its a standard product here now, its called the 200 meg service but
on all the speed tests we've done its past that by a bit.

Isn't G.fast supposed to be up to 300Mbps?

Pass on that one Mike. Don't know.

I'm on a solid 40 now, with a solid 80 available if I want it, so by the
time G.fast gets here...

It may well be the they'll upgrade you for free after a while.


Once you get to the point where you can stream movies in real time, why
does anyone much care?


WEll for most people yes.

Unless you are running a web server at home...

I'd appreciate a better upload speed than 448kbps when I want to send a
50Mbyte email...


I got 142MB down and 11.5MB up on my ipad last night via virgin media.
usig the speednet app for testing.