Internet Download/Upload Speeds...

[giZmo350]

@Gizmo350

What on earth is that, that's just about to go pop !!!

Just as It seemed this thread was headed... Kudos for grown ups!

(was just a little humor....)

BTW, Franko... I liked your other avater alot better!!!

[guest7146]

I have recently been through this very same problem.  In my case I have hundreds of gigabytes worth of stuff that I wanted backed up and after trialling a few online backup services I was eventually forced to conclude that it wasn't feasible to use them.  The online services would have been fine for my incremental backups, but the initial full backup would just take too long.  I left mine running for weeks and even after that there was only very little progress in terms of how much there was still left to do!

Added to all of that, I also felt a little bit paranoid about the security of my data, and I had taken to encrypting some of my stuff before upload which was an additional hassle.

Taking all of this into account, I decided to abandon the idea of online backup.  Instead, I now use a 2TB network storage to do the backup with.  There's an initial cost in terms of buying the drive, and this depends largely on how feature rich you want the network drive to be, but I got myself a basic 2TB network drive for under £150.  After that there are no more costs of course, so it'll pay for itself in a year or so (compared to subscribing for a paid online service).

The main disadvantage to doing a local backup to a network drive is that you're still not protected from the possibility of a fire.  However, this would be a very rare event indeed and as precious as my data is I think I'd have bigger things than data loss to worry about if my house had been burned down.

I still backup my most precious data to an online service (mainly code I have written and stuff like that) but it's small in size so I can just use a basic free service for that.

AH.

[Franko]

Just as It seemed this thread was headed... Kudos for grown ups!

(was just a little humor....)

BTW, Franko... I liked your other avater alot better!!!

The only thing about to go pop at the start of this thread was my head...

Just ordered one of those IPlates, £8.59 including P&P, hopefully in a few days I'll find out if this little gadget works...

Yeah, I liked my old avatar better too, only change it cos of recent comments about me trolling, think I'll go back to my old one again...

(oops, just realised the time, WWE Hell In A Cell pay per view starting shortly, Need to get my Curry on and stock up with munchies for four hours of sheer comedy, so everyone can have peace for the next few hours, well someone's gotta watch it...)

[giZmo350]

Yeah, I liked my old avatar better too, only change it cos of recent comments about me trolling, think I'll go back to my old one again...

Ahhhh, sorta like a disguise!

[motrucker]

We must be a little bit better off here in the "States". My ISP is currently Comcast - and using the base service I get 4.53 Down and 2.19 up. I just checked that with Speakeasy out of their Washington D.C. site (I,m 25 miles away - for what that's worth).

[Jiffy]

We must be a little bit better off here in the "States". My ISP is currently Comcast - and using the base service I get 4.53 Down and 2.19 up. I just checked that with Speakeasy out of their Washington D.C. site (I,m 25 miles away - for what that's worth).

Those speeds are about a decade ago for me. Current connection is 120 down, 10 up (cable), more than enough for my current needs. ADSL isn't a real alternative as it doesn't go any higher than 22 down, 1 up (best case scenario, only available on short distances).

Internet in the Netherlands isn't so bad...

[Zac67]

Funnily my connection is rather poor in local terms. They're selling 200/10 M, 110/5 M and 40/2 M connections these days (prices are 55eur, 45eur and 36eur per month respectively).

[koshman]

31/7 (actual speed, just tested) at $25/month here (Czech Republic), not bad

[whabang]

You should get a fiber line instead, or see if there is a VDSL provider in the area.

Also, Piru is Finnish.

[Franko]

I've been uploading hundreds of ADF files today, between 5pm & 10pm tonight all I was managing were upload speeds of between 450 to 560kbps.

But at around 2am this morning the upload speeds suddenly averaged 680 to 820kbps...

Still don't quite understand this as after speaking to Sky today to try and confirm that the IPlate I have ordered, would be ok to use, they insisted that where I live and the distance from the exhange, shows on all their tests that I shouldn't be able to achieve anything greater than 550kbps !!!

[Damion]

Internet in the States is barely breaking 3rd world status, and it's expensive. $55/month here for a tested 16-18 down and .7 up. $99 for a theoretical 60/5.

We must be a little bit better off here in the "States". My ISP is currently Comcast - and using the base service I get 4.53 Down and 2.19 up. I just checked that with Speakeasy out of their Washington D.C. site (I,m 25 miles away - for what that's worth).

[Franko]

Received the IPlate today, easily installed but didn't work at first, needed to bend the connection pins up a bit, as they weren't making contact in the BT wall socket.

So far the speeds are still the same, but the leaflet that came with it says it may take up to 3 days for the exchange to automatically adjust to a higher bandwidth setting.

Just have to wait and see now if it lives up to the hype I've read about it, supposedly giving up to a third extra speed increase...

[Franko]

Just my luck...

Suddenly this morning my speeds dropped from 2.6mbps download to an average of 2.2mbps, and the uploads dropped way down from 600kps to only an average of 360kbps...

Ruddy thing seems to have done the reverse of what it was supposed to do ... :furious:

(now, where's my screwdriver...)

[Buzzfuzz]

Internet in the States is barely breaking 3rd world status, and it's expensive. $55/month here for a tested 16-18 down and .7 up. $99 for a theoretical 60/5.

Yep, while HD is still few and less here in Europe, you have almost everything in HD but lacking internet speed.
This is what I get for around 70 euro's all in, so digitial television, internet and VOIP.