EU referendum are you in or out

[Ollie]

I have 80mbps and it's fine for when I'm on my own in the flat but if my or my GF's kids show up and start streaming and dossing about on TikTok things take a solid hit.

Unless she has an unusually large number of kids, if it isn't enough for all of them I reckon your actual speed is somewhat less than advertised.

[Ollie]

I'd reckon 80 to 90% of sane people would be happy to see a Lab/Lib/SNP alliance, which seems our best hope (at the moment, anything could happen!)

I reckon I'm (mostly) sane, but I'm not convinced the Lib-Dems are.

[Cloudane]

I'd be glad to get more than 35mbps on this line that was originally 67....

At the moment it's "I'm feeling the tedium of Steam downloads again", though obviously it's not as bad as it was at 5.5mbps.

Yes "it'll do" but it's this attitude of "meh it'll do" that got us stuck with ADSL for way too long and it's the same attitude that will get us stuck with FTTC when the rest of the internet overtakes us. We need to plan for the future and start the rollout NOW as it'll take a very long time and a lot of digging of roads to bring fibre to every home. Do people really think these kinds of speeds will be "meh, good enough" in 2030?

[tufty]

First world problems.

I get 2.5mbps tops when the neighbourhood are up. It's fine.

[gilesgoat]

First world problems.

I get 2.5mbps tops when the neighbourhood are up. It's fine.

Around 1996 to test 'the limits in case of line quality dropping' and 'if the whole logic still held' I did test our protcol/sw doing video streaming on a 300 Baud line .. seriously .. it was still possible with out algos o get around 1 frame every 2 seconds, even more if the deltas were smaller

You can nearly hear the individual bits by ear at that speed ( the modem wasn't capable to do 75 baud or such or I would have tried ).

[gilesgoat]

Also looks like Corby is one of those very capable to come out "with the most wrong sentences at the worst possible time", I don't say the ideas are bad but if he want to win the elections ( and I fear they won't ) he should keep "for later" talk of things like "nationalisation" or such .. I don't say the principles could be wrong but that's not what people want to hear now ..

About the broadband and immigration makes me think at panem et circenses. ... like of course what we need all NOW is a faster broadband ...

Or maybe he's secretly in business with Google and Stadia ??

[Rhythm]

I have 80mbps and it's fine for when I'm on my own in the flat but if my or my GF's kids show up and start streaming and dossing about on TikTok things take a solid hit.

Unless she has an unusually large number of kids, if it isn't enough for all of them I reckon your actual speed is somewhat less than advertised.

Fast.com says 75mbps and I know the upload is OK as I host a Plex server from there too. It never becomes even remotely unusable, but we can all notice the difference for sure. Mixture of wired and wireless devices FWIW

ISP-supplied router was dogshit so swapped that out for a decent one. That did improve things hugely, but things still take a hit when there's up to 7 of us on the same connection.

[Barney]

Arron Banks (Leave.Eu) twitter account has been hacked and the entirety of his DMs dumped. It's delicious in pretty much every way.

#arronbanksleaks

In particular, Northern Monkeys is funny. Especially since Leave.Eu was fined £120,000 for abusing facebook data...

[VNVObit]

Arron Banks (Leave.Eu) twitter account has been hacked and the entirety of his DMs dumped. It's delicious in pretty much every way.

#arronbanksleaks

In particular, Northern Monkeys is funny. Especially since Leave.Eu was fined £120,000 for abusing facebook data...

That particular message has been shown to be a fake
Do appreciate the irony of them looking for protection through the GDPR given their lack of regard for it

[tufty]

In particular, Northern Monkeys is funny.

It is, but if you look closely, the message ids in that "screenshot" are somewhat identical. Whoops.

[(o)(o)]

First world problems.

I get 2.5mbps tops when the neighbourhood are up. It's fine.

As someone who works from home and relies on intenet.. NOT fine !!

Didn't think about broadband when I took a rural place on. Literally when I got the keys like... duh !!

Have fibre now and the cabling from cabinet is underground via woodland.. thankfully.. as it's bloody expensive and overhead is generally what is done rurally which is unreliable!! A few strings were pulled by some rather influential people to make it a reality for this property.

But yeah still upload speeds are NO GOOD.. I've had to switch to cellular to avoiding missing crucial print deadlines just uploading a 50Mb file.

I'm one of the luckier residents around here. Much of the UKs rural network is very poor.. looking ahead I see more people working becoming more reliant on home internet going forwards..

[(o)(o)]

Arron Banks (Leave.Eu) twitter account has been hacked and the entirety of his DMs dumped. It's delicious in pretty much every way.

#arronbanksleaks

In particular, Northern Monkeys is funny. Especially since Leave.Eu was fined £120,000 for abusing facebook data...

Hah! This is pretty funny..

Wigmore relying on EU laws

https://twitter.com/andywigmore/status/ ... 4766455819

[Barney]

Arron Banks (Leave.Eu) twitter account has been hacked and the entirety of his DMs dumped. It's delicious in pretty much every way.

#arronbanksleaks

In particular, Northern Monkeys is funny. Especially since Leave.Eu was fined £120,000 for abusing facebook data...

That particular message has been shown to be a fake
Do appreciate the irony of them looking for protection through the GDPR given their lack of regard for it

Yeah, saw that an hour or so later but it was too late to edit my post. Ah well, it was fun at the time

The Priti Patel one about £1000 tea break seems to be legit so far. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.

[Cloudane]

I don't know how it happens but only Corbyn can seem to generate so much hate that he can even convince a forum full of nerds that faster broadband is somehow a bad thing.

[gilesgoat]

I don't know how it happens but only Corbyn can seem to generate so much hate that he can even convince a forum full of nerds that faster broadband is somehow a bad thing.

Because in the front of much more serious issues, like Brexit, going on about "free broadband" makes me really think/say "What 'ya talkin' 'bout Corbyn" ??

I am sorry, Corbyn really looks like "You WANT to be hated/loose the elections" .. it's weird and frustating the same time because it's almost like "Tories have no oppositon at all"