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Thread ID: 140455 2015-10-14 22:26:00 Fibre broadband is it really fast or just hype? undiejuice (16495) Press F1
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1409879 2015-10-14 22:26:00 Hi,

I am currently on ADSL broad band (Unlimited plan with Spark) and soon next week I will be upgrading to the Fibre100+ Landline plan. Am I going to see any significant difference with fibre broadband, or is this just hype?

I am really excited about this, as I watch and download lots of videos, watch Netflix, into gaming and download the odd programs say (3 gig) in size that would usually take hours to download. BTW, I live in the city. Am I expecting a few seconds when it comes to downloading large files?

Cheers. 		undiejuice (16495)
1409880 2015-10-14 22:37:00 You need to be realistic.
Upload speeds will be faster , Winupdates might be faster ?

Download speeds are ALLWAYS limited by the speed every step between you and the other end. Just because you have 100Mb/s , doesnt mean the other
end will feed downloads to you at that speed.

Im on ADSL, I have NEVER maxed that out on downloads, never even been close . Fibre wouldnt change that. 		1101 (13337)
1409881 2015-10-14 23:11:00 To Quote 1101 :)


Download speeds are ALLWAYS limited by the speed every step between you and the other end. Just because you have 100Mb/s , doesnt mean the other
end will feed downloads to you at that speed. Got that right ;) :D

Heres an example: I'm on Vodafone Cable, a speed test, depending on the time of day usually tops out at what I'm meant to get around 130Mbps.

Saturday late afternoon I downloaded a ISO 4.1GB, it came through at roughly 1.5 MB/s :sleep Thats Mega Bytes.

(Speed tests run usually in Mega Bits = Mbps)

Today - just tried, vodafone are outdoing them selves - either that or the pipe is open a bit ;) 16MB/S. (16 MegaBytes in 1 Second.)
Which by the speed test in simple terms would read as 160Mbps

Just to show I'm not exaggerating :

6774

If I tried that again tonight at 6pm - I'd be lucky if I even got into the MB's

Edited: With the advent of more TV on line with the likes of Netflix The internet often will come to a crawl from about 6 -10PM, simply because the ISP's cant handle the traffic being requested / generated. 		wainuitech (129)
1409882 2015-10-15 00:36:00 It depends what you do. If you're already getting a good ADSL2+ connection at ~20Mbps, then streaming etc probably won't be much different. If you're on a poorer connection, and get buffering, or can't get HD streams etc, you'll get an improvement. You'll also find normal activities less impacted by any background downloads etc going on. inphinity (7274)
1409883 2015-10-15 01:22:00 Then there is the subjective element - it just feels less susceptible to 'funny things happening' like bad joints (got enough personal ones!) and rain induced phenomena etc etc. linw (53)
1409884 2015-10-15 07:33:00 16MB/second = 128Mbps, Theres 8bits to a byte. Kame (312)
1409885 2015-10-15 08:22:00 To Quote 1101 :)

Got that right ;) :D

Heres an example: I'm on Vodafone Cable, a speed test, depending on the time of day usually tops out at what I'm meant to get around 130Mbps.

Saturday late afternoon I downloaded a ISO 4.1GB, it came through at roughly 1.5 MB/s :sleep Thats Mega Bytes.

(Speed tests run usually in Mega Bits = Mbps)

Today - just tried, vodafone are outdoing them selves - either that or the pipe is open a bit ;) 16MB/S. (16 MegaBytes in 1 Second.)
Which by the speed test in simple terms would read as 160Mbps

Just to show I'm not exaggerating :

6774

If I tried that again tonight at 6pm - I'd be lucky if I even got into the MB's

Edited: With the advent of more TV on line with the likes of Netflix The internet often will come to a crawl from about 6 -10PM, simply because the ISP's cant handle the traffic being requested / generated.

Damn, that really, really sucks! What a waste of time me doing all of this for nothing! 		undiejuice (16495)
1409886 2015-10-15 08:24:00 It depends what you do. If you're already getting a good ADSL2+ connection at ~20Mbps, then streaming etc probably won't be much different. If you're on a poorer connection, and get buffering, or can't get HD streams etc, you'll get an improvement. You'll also find normal activities less impacted by any background downloads etc going on.


I think my internet connection is good when watching Netflix, it takes 2 seconds to load before I can watch movies. A side from that, downloading is reasonable, for my ADSL plan at the moment. 		undiejuice (16495)
1409887 2015-10-15 08:29:00 You need to be realistic.
Upload speeds will be faster , Winupdates might be faster ?

Download speeds are ALLWAYS limited by the speed every step between you and the other end. Just because you have 100Mb/s , doesnt mean the other
end will feed downloads to you at that speed.



Im on ADSL, I have NEVER maxed that out on downloads, never even been close . Fibre wouldnt change that.

Ah crap!!! I want to know how long anyway it will tak to download windows updates (250+mb) in the first instance?. Anyhow, my class mate from South Korea tells me downloading GB files takes seconds and he doesnt bother downloading videos, because it is so fast............ 		undiejuice (16495)
1409888 2015-10-15 08:32:00 Obviously, fibre in the end is crap, just hype and will do Jack S for a S load of nothing, yet will cost $99.00 per month for mere F ALL, if I'm not going to see any difference with my current plan!

Thanks for your help everyone. Appreciate that. Peace! 		undiejuice (16495)
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