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UK watchdog Ofcom tells broadband firms: '30 days to sort your speeds'

Steve the Cynic

May I kindly suggest that if 34.6Mbit/s is not fast enough for you then you need to get a life?

Having gone from "up to 20 Mbps"(1) that was normally around 11-12 Mbps directly to "at least 200 Mbps"(2) that was in fact anywhere up to 300 Mbps, I can say that going back is one of the least desirable changes I can imagine in my internet service.

Bear in mind that 300 Mbps is 37.5 MBYTE/s. I can download a GB of whatever it is I want to download in less than 30 seconds.(3)

Oh, yeah, and 100 Mbps *up*, so that two megabyte .JPG that I attach to mails from time to time goes up in almost no time at all.

(1) Well, really it was advertised as "jusqu'à 20 Mbps", but that's just Froglandish for the same thing.

(2) "Au moins 200 Mbps". Froglandish, obviously.

(3) With 7 Mbps of TCP ACK packets in the other direction. In a way, that's the most remarkable part of the whole thing.

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