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View Poll Results: What's your Broadband speed?
0-128Kb/s 0 0%
129 - 512Kb/s 3 11.54%
513 - 1024Kb/s 2 7.69%
1025 - 2048Kb/s 1 3.85%
2049 - 5Mb/s 1 3.85%
5Mb/s - 10Mb/s 14 53.85%
10Mb/s - 20Mb/s 4 15.38%
20Mb/s+ (UK has that speed?...) 1 3.85%
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Old 5th January 2009, 10:14 PM
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As title! Are you happy with it?
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Mine is 5.5 mb and upload speed 0.38 (speedtest.net) that's with BT and havn't had a single problem with them for 3 years now.

Pretty good speed considering where I live.
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www [dot] speedtest.net/result/384933619.png

Says Be, though actually I'm with O2 - they share exchange equipment. That's on the same line that had a best down speed of 3 Mbs with Zen.
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256Kb/s at home, it is OK for checking emails and chatting.
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8mb for me, runs normally around 6.8 though
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8Mb on the tin, more like 3-5 in reality.
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10mbs at home, not sure what it is in the office.
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getting just over 7mb with a cap of 8.
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I get 1mbps on a 8mb plan - not happy with the speed at all, though it is very reliable.
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I have 18.3mbit downstream and 2.2mbit upstream at home (though does fluctuate between 18-19mbit down and 2-2.3mbit up).
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8Mb O2 Broadband here.
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Pathetic speed, customer service and u/l courtesy of Orange
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Virgin Media 10mbit at home, and direct multi-gigabit at the datacentre if that counts

Oh and 3G mobile broadband which seems nice and speedy, around 2mbit average.
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Mines around 5.5. Don't know what it's meant to be though!

Don't know about the office.

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Theoretically up to 8mb with Tiscal. Through I was warned, accurately, it would be more like 2.5mb in reality, due to being 3 miles from the exchange
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Tiscali all well-renowned for throttling bandwidth (i.e. stealing).
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I'm supposed to get up to 8MB however I only get around 512/650.

I was without broadband from 1pm until midnight yesterday due to "issues" at my providers end (Entanet). I'll be looking into switching providers very soon.
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hi i think i'm the only one with 20mb with virgin

Anyone else in virgin area?
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At home, we're using 1mb/s.. It's not that fast but I think it's good enough for surfing net or chatting..
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7MB - very happy with it, i only find the extra comes in handy for downloading, the rest of the time there isn't a huge difference.
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