How fast broadband do I need?


Sick and tired of piss poor service from Virgin Media but they are the fastest.

Looking at alternatives, but they're all slower. Sky offer 59Mb speeds with independent sites saying the real average speed is 41.

Is that enough for up to two people working from home during the day with Teams video calls and suchlike, and outside of work hours, streaming films and TV on services like Netflix on up to two TVs at a time? Obviously the usual use on laptops on mobile devices? And the doorbell and a few other ancillary devices use the WiFi as well
 
Sick and tired of piss poor service from Virgin Media but they are the fastest.

Looking at alternatives, but they're all slower. Sky offer 59Mb speeds with independent sites saying the real average speed is 41.

Is that enough for up to two people working from home during the day with Teams video calls and suchlike, and outside of work hours, streaming films and TV on services like Netflix on up to two TVs at a time? Obviously the usual use on laptops on mobile devices? And the doorbell and a few other ancillary devices use the WiFi as well

Can you embellish on the 'piss poor'?
 
Can you embellish on the 'piss poor'?

It was constantly dropping, it's now down completely
Not that much, despite what the internet hard lads will tell you, but is it not just the shit router you get from Virgin causing you issues?

Broken cabling on the outside of the property that they've done fuck all to fix. Now they finally got someone to replace the cable and it's down completely
 
It was constantly dropping, it's now down completely


Broken cabling on the outside of the property that they've done fuck all to fix. Now they finally got someone to replace the cable and it's down completely
Didn't they test the cable after they'd fixed it?
 
Sick and tired of piss poor service from Virgin Media but they are the fastest.

Looking at alternatives, but they're all slower. Sky offer 59Mb speeds with independent sites saying the real average speed is 41.

Is that enough for up to two people working from home during the day with Teams video calls and suchlike, and outside of work hours, streaming films and TV on services like Netflix on up to two TVs at a time? Obviously the usual use on laptops on mobile devices? And the doorbell and a few other ancillary devices use the WiFi as well
Yeah, regular broadband is easily fast enough to cope with all that stuff without breaking a sweat.
You can stream 4K films on anything above about 30Mb too. So 2 streams of FHD 1080 wouldn't need more than about 20Mb.

Only time superfast really matters imo, is downloading massive files in seconds. Like 80GB UHD movies.

You're limit is more likely to be poor wifi quality than the actual link speed.
 
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Less internet means less time working from home surely win win.

Not that the WFH lot actually do fuk all work like
 
Sick and tired of piss poor service from Virgin Media but they are the fastest.

Looking at alternatives, but they're all slower. Sky offer 59Mb speeds with independent sites saying the real average speed is 41.

Is that enough for up to two people working from home during the day with Teams video calls and suchlike, and outside of work hours, streaming films and TV on services like Netflix on up to two TVs at a time? Obviously the usual use on laptops on mobile devices? And the doorbell and a few other ancillary devices use the WiFi as well
You’d probably get away with 10mb doing that, the IT geeks will tell you otherwise but the difference in downloading is seconds for say a Netflix film to load between ultra fast and a half decent speed.

I’ve got about 30mb with sky and it takes a second, two max for a Netflix show to get to 100% before it plays
 
Virgin media are a set of twats.

Upped my bill by 7 quid a month because the government allows them to increase the prices mid contract.

Looking to cancel and move providers
 
I pay for 900mb. Currently only getting 290mb.
Normally get about 400 and it’s meant to be guaranteed at 450.
Going to ring them next week and kick off.
 
Virgin media are a set of twats.

Upped my bill by 7 quid a month because the government allows them to increase the prices mid contract.

Looking to cancel and move providers
They are all doing that. Not had my letter yet but can see from my future billing online that Sky are going to put my bill up by £10 a month.
 

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