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Moon Monkey says: Turn into Jeremy Clarkson for a moment, and tell us about the things that are so obviously wrong with the world, and how they should be fixed. Extra points for ludicrous over-simplification, blatant mis-representation, and humourous knob-gags.

(, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 12:53)
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It's all relative.
Without a reference, what does your number actually mean? What speed are you supposed to get?

In absolute terms, 5 years ago that kind of number would have given most of us a boner.

Eventually, most of us will get fibre-optic, and the numbers will rise. But then we'll all be streaming hi-def movies, and will still complain.

What we actually need is for these companies to stop selling 10mbps, and delivering 2.5mbps.
(, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 12:09, 1 reply)

well yes better to be more specific
im paying for a advertised

"Truly unlimited up to 20Mb broadband"

when running speedtest I get a meg most days
and 2.5mb at about 1 o clock at night
(, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 12:15, closed)
the key words in this statement are "up to"
Firstly you are on a contention based service - typically 50:1 Secondly your phone line is too far from the exchange and/or has loads of knots in it, probably inside your house.

The word "unlimited" just means it's uncapped - it doesn't guaretee when you'll actually get your 20 megabits (which equales 2.5 mega bytes incidentally)- just that you will, eventually.
(, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 12:23, closed)

thanks for the reply buffet.

i as a non technical user feel a bit cheated with the proposed "up to" and actual recieving figure
but as you say i guess eventually the speeds will increase
(, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 12:41, closed)

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