Satellite Broadband

Kelvin · Post by **Kelvin** » Wed Aug 26, 2015 12:21 pm

tut wrote:Good for you Kelv, fcuk accepting what the Gestapo lay down, I had one of their Comittees around once led by a bitter, dried up, sex starved spinster who would have turned down anything.

tut

Yep, some of the restrictions are bonkers and have cost the builder sh*t loads more during the build. One of the barns fell down during the early build phase. They had to rebuild it using the original bricks do employed a guy to chip the concrete off 30,000 bricks. Lol.

robin · Post by **robin** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 2:45 pm

r10crw wrote:Tut, have tried Skype or similar? Maybe latency makes that a no no? Cheers robin for the figures, I'm gonna see if I can monitor our in the router somehow.

I looked at PlusNet's usage monitor for our link. We've used 250GByte in the last month. That's with 6 students plus Katie and myself in the house! That's about 1Mbit/s for every second of the month

In previous months we've used anywhere from 150 to 300GByte/month.

No wonder the router has a hard time of it

Cheers,
Robin

r10crw · Post by **r10crw** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:41 am

Bloody hell, yeah Ill stick with my standard unlimited sh*t 2 meg then. The idea of something faster is nice but we can stream Netflix for the kids with a little bit of buffering and they are not at an age to complain yet (although Keirs quickly getting there).

robin · Post by **robin** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:28 am

PlusNet (our ISP) has been messing about with their service, I think. I am sure we used to get a higher bit rate on our line, but it now claims we should expect 7.5mbit/s and we're getting just a wee bit more than that. Anyway, it's cheap enough to upgrade to the new fibre stuff (which is perhaps why my line has got slower) so I've ordered the upgrade - they claim I should expect 70mbit/s down and 20mbit/s up ... that'll make remote working somewhat better than the current arrangement!

Cheers,
Robin

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:32 am

robin wrote:PlusNet (our ISP) has been messing about with their service, I think. I am sure we used to get a higher bit rate on our line, but it now claims we should expect 7.5mbit/s and we're getting just a wee bit more than that. Anyway, it's cheap enough to upgrade to the new fibre stuff (which is perhaps why my line has got slower) so I've ordered the upgrade - they claim I should expect 70mbit/s down and 20mbit/s up ... that'll make remote working somewhat better than the current arrangement!

Cheers,
Robin

It has done for me, no more messing about trying to sort QoS out should someone fire up youtube when I am WFH. I think I am synced at 30 down and 10 up, there is a more extreme package from Sky but this is ample for now.

graeme · Post by **graeme** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:56 am

robin wrote:PlusNet (our ISP) has been messing about with their service, I think. I am sure we used to get a higher bit rate on our line, but it now claims we should expect 7.5mbit/s and we're getting just a wee bit more than that. Anyway, it's cheap enough to upgrade to the new fibre stuff (which is perhaps why my line has got slower) so I've ordered the upgrade - they claim I should expect 70mbit/s down and 20mbit/s up ... that'll make remote working somewhat better than the current arrangement!

Cheers,
Robin

Don't expect 70 down and 20 up. The estimates lie. I had the same estimates and I get 50 down and about 16 up in the real world.

Best (only?) reason to go with Plusnet is that it's the cheapest ISP that will give you a static IP. If you don't need that, shop around.

robin · Post by **robin** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 1:33 pm

Happy to move elsewhere, except:

BT (expensive and hard to deal with)
Sky (political choice)
TalkTalk (once bitten, twice shy)
Virgin (they don't have cable in my street)

Who does that leave, and would they be cheaper than PlusNet for a fibre connection?

Cheers,
Robin

graeme · Post by **graeme** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 1:38 pm

Zen, but no, not cheaper. If you're discounting BT/Sky, I'd stick with PN.

tut · Post by **tut** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 2:02 pm

Sod the politics, Sky 24 months, unlimited data, free.

tut

Post by **campbell** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 2:22 pm

But Robin, you're only using a cmd line and a text editor, aren't you

tut · Post by **tut** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 6:49 pm

tut

robin · Post by **robin** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:09 pm

Yeah, but the rest of the household need to be streaming breaking is the new bad or whatever it's called non-stop .. and there's six of them

Post by **campbell** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 11:54 pm

You need to build in some QoS rulz for yourself then, and tell them to all huddle round just one iPad with Breaking Bread on at 360p max, LOL

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:33 pm

Are you a "high profile" user Tut?

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/turla-russ ... =social_fb

tut · Post by **tut** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:55 pm

I think Tut End is fairly safe from attack Sanj, though they are welcome to read through my 21,000 posts as you poor buggers have had to.

tut

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