I have just hit internet jackpot

[mjs warlord]

23 years ago i started with dial up internet ... 2 hour session time before getting kicked off and the modem sounded like a spectrum game loading.
6 months later i got broadband but for almost 22 years i have never got above 18 mb per sec cos my old exchange a mile away cant do anymore and they even said dont go with a rival company cos their gear will go through that exchange and still be slow.

Today i checked my account and my current contract runs out in 2 weeks , it says cant be renewed cos our street has been wired for full fibre.
Its going to be the same as i pay now with a small increase in 2 years i am going from 2mb per sec to 900 mb per sec.
No more leaving pc on overnight to get a big game download off steam.

Tonight i will be opening a bottle that is 40% proof and i dont mean milk.

 

[neogunhero]

Congrats, that's very exciting! The speeds will be so good it will be almost life changing.

 

[Pifanjr]

It'll be just as big of an improvement as going from HDD to SSD, it'll be an absolute game changer in some respects.

 

[BeardyHat]

That'll be huge! You're going to see stuff downloading from Steam at like 400-500Mb per sec, most likely.

Although, it may be a curse, because now you'll need a bigger hard drive.

 

[Frindis]

That is super fast, congratz!

 

[Colif]

i went from 1.87 to 20 which was a nice jump...

It was also not the right speed, but a nice stepping stone.
It can be a shock to find what you been missing... glad I could do it in little steps.
My internet is only max 115 now but that is still plenty for what I use it for

I can get 500 but not sure i really need it. I don't watch movies on my PC so don't need it for that. Only times internet is slow is when its an external factor and something I can't do anything about.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Although, it may be a curse, because now you'll need a bigger hard drive.

And maybe even a bigger game budget if they DL that fast!

Congrats warlord, I don't know of anyone on any of the forums I chat on that has put up with such slow DL speeds in this day and age.

 

[mjs warlord]

Thanks for all the thumbs up guys , by the way @Frag Maniac the reason i stuck with BT and a rubbish feed for so long is because their own customer services and a chat with engineers at the exchange ( it a mile away ) said if i went to another broad band provider the new isp would go through their exchange and BT old gear would throttle it. I resisted going to a rival full fibre isp because sometimes things can go belly up and BT say if you leave them you cant go back to them for 2 years.

The must be the first time in 69 years somebody has said you dont have a choice ( no more copper wire ) and i actually come out the winner

 

[Colif]

Funny how the British Telecom acts exactly like our Telecom. I expect they taught ours.

Our local one sent warnings out to people in our City a few years ago saying we all had to swap our plans or we would lose phones/Internet connections... but many of the people they sent them to didn't actually use them and already had other lines to use. Telecom had to send out corrections.
If I had stayed with them I would have only in the last few years recieved the speed I have now.
Paranoid part of me almost thinks the govt slow walking internet as then less people will watch TV, It would make more sense here if we had your silly TV licences.

BT should have updated their nodes faster. Or Private ISP shouldn't need to route through them.

 

[Pifanjr]

Although, it may be a curse, because now you'll need a bigger hard drive.

Quite the opposite, now he doesn't need to leave stuff installed because it would take an entire day to redownload it.

My internet is only max 115 now but that is still plenty for what I use it for

I can get 500 but not sure i really need it. I don't watch movies on my PC so don't need it for that. Only times internet is slow is when its an external factor and something I can't do anything about.

I've downgraded from, I think, 250 to 100 recently to save a couple of bucks each month. Higher than 100 is only useful if you frequently download huge games/files and only if the server you're downloading from supports higher downloading speeds.

 

[Colif]

I can watch 4k videos if I wanted to on Youtube, and games may not instantly install but I came from 1.87mb/s and 16gb games taking a week to download. I can wait a little time

Bigger numbers being better is a sales pitch
At least most plans are advertised as Megabytes not Megabits now. The second can be a bigger number but its not telling you anything unless you know the conversion rate is 1 in 8 (8 bits to a byte)

After a certain point you can't tell.

Quite the opposite, now he doesn't need to leave stuff installed because it would take an entire day to redownload it.

So true, local storage suddenly isn't necessary. My PS3 had games on it I never played but didn't want to remove just in case I did want to play them. The number of times I bought games on PS3 and then had to go to sleep before Download had finished was also annoying.

Before fast internet I was scared of losing all my music and having to remake library... now, well, apart from using Tidal and none of mine... its also backed up on Onedrive if I ever decide to listen to any.

Streaming services are just painful on slow internet. Or impossible. G Force Now wouldn't work here still as most of country still slow.

Its liberating in a way.

 

[Frindis]

It's not terrible, but not great either:

 

[Colif]

its balanced.
Shame uploads really not that useful. Sure, depends on your hobbies/job but for me... only time I really wanted faster was long ago when my upload speed was .23 Mbit and I tried to upload all my music to Google music... that took months (of me pausing it every day at start to have some internet).

I remember dial up, these all feel faster than what you had before.
Four hour session limits and trying to download a 50mb file before the time runs out. I don't miss that at all

 

[mjs warlord]

Funny how the British Telecom acts exactly like our Telecom. I expect they taught ours.

Our local one sent warnings out to people in our City a few years ago saying we all had to swap our plans or we would lose phones/Internet connections... but many of the people they sent them to didn't actually use them and already had other lines to use. Telecom had to send out corrections.
If I had stayed with them I would have only in the last few years recieved the speed I have now.
Paranoid part of me almost thinks the govt slow walking internet as then less people will watch TV, It would make more sense here if we had your silly TV licences.

BT should have updated their nodes faster. Or Private ISP shouldn't need to route through them.

Quick calculation old 18mb download of 50 gb would be just over 7 hours , new speed of 900mb quoted 6 minutes lol

 

[Colif]

oh, my last download speed was 1.87 mb so it would take me 59 hours, 25 minutes, and 3 seconds to get a 50gb file. I mistakenly thought you only got 2mb

That was when I was on VDSL 1, now on VDSL2.
It would take me 55 minutes now. That is fast enough for me.

Only normally install large files once. I will be abusing my connection in coming weeks making my new PC. But I have unlimited download so it doesn't matter. Steam games might be biggest things I need to install anyway.

 

[BeardyHat]

Quite the opposite, now he doesn't need to leave stuff installed because it would take an entire day to redownload it.



I've downgraded from, I think, 250 to 100 recently to save a couple of bucks each month. Higher than 100 is only useful if you frequently download huge games/files and only if the server you're downloading from supports higher downloading speeds.

I could actually use a bigger drive on my home server, as I try to keep as much of my library installed locally. I end up hitting my bandwidth limit (1.2Tb) several times a year lately, so it's nice to be able to transfer everything over my local network and save myself there.

Fast is also pretty helpful if there's a lot of people in your household using it, which we definitely have.

 

[Frindis]

Preloading has helped me with some games. Thankfully not all of the larger games comes with insanely large day 1 patches like S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 did.

 

[DXCHASE]

Wait until you find an internet company that does 2GB bandwith. Im currently stuck with Spectrum's 1gb plan for 115usd a month, but the neighborhood i live in is supposed to get this other competitor for internet that does 2gb for the same price (their 1gb is 80 and they ALSO have an 8gb one). So hopefully it comes soon, ive been signed up since last year but still no word on when they will be putting it in.

Anyways. congrats!

 

[Frag Maniac]

I feel kind of lucky that my DL speed measures 85Mb, despite paying for 75Mb speed, and I only pay $15 a month for it because Xfinity gives a price break to low income customers. I also have unlimited data. I had 100Mb DL before where I lived prior, but I was paying over 3 times as much for it. I don't feel I need super high speed, especially given what it costs in my area. I can still stream 4K content just fine, and my games when I buy them DL fast enough. I'm a bit slow in my old age anyway, I don't need internet that DLs faster than I can think!

 

[Colif]

In a few centuries time internet archivists will find posts like this and record them under the days speed was even a problem. Eventually it will be fast everywhere and just taken for granted you can dl everything instantly. It will be so normal no one will talk about it.