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12 years ago
So, uh... In my last journal, I did a quick mention of...
Aaaand there's potentially 60Meg internet coming my way soonish. About bloody time, too, I've lost my patience with this bloody internet speed many a time.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like this is going to happen.
The potentially 60Meg internet was from Virgin Media. Okay, not so bad.
The bloody internet speed, as in the one we have right now, is AOL/TalkTalk.
AOL/TalkTalk only offered 'up to 8Meg' speeds, with no mention of an upload speed anywhere, although 10% of the download speed is usually a good margin.
On a good day, we might hit 4Mb download at an absolute peak, with ~0.35Mb upload. But that's not even the terrible part yet.
The parents instead decided to switch to...
*drumroll*
The Post Office.
Yup. They've instead decided to go with them on the logic that they've got the phone through them anyway.... Parents. x.x
So, I did some looking around on the Post Office site at their internet... No details of anything regarding any download or upload speeds. So I looked around on internet comparison sites instead.
PO offers 8Mb download speeds, with an 'up to 0.2Mb' upload speed.
Note the upload speed. That's -worse- than what we have currently.
Long story short, I thought I'd convinced them to something better, but they did their own thing anyway. Oblivious buggers.
Aaaand there's potentially 60Meg internet coming my way soonish. About bloody time, too, I've lost my patience with this bloody internet speed many a time.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like this is going to happen.
The potentially 60Meg internet was from Virgin Media. Okay, not so bad.
The bloody internet speed, as in the one we have right now, is AOL/TalkTalk.
AOL/TalkTalk only offered 'up to 8Meg' speeds, with no mention of an upload speed anywhere, although 10% of the download speed is usually a good margin.
On a good day, we might hit 4Mb download at an absolute peak, with ~0.35Mb upload. But that's not even the terrible part yet.
The parents instead decided to switch to...
*drumroll*
The Post Office.
Yup. They've instead decided to go with them on the logic that they've got the phone through them anyway.... Parents. x.x
So, I did some looking around on the Post Office site at their internet... No details of anything regarding any download or upload speeds. So I looked around on internet comparison sites instead.
PO offers 8Mb download speeds, with an 'up to 0.2Mb' upload speed.
Note the upload speed. That's -worse- than what we have currently.
Long story short, I thought I'd convinced them to something better, but they did their own thing anyway. Oblivious buggers.
