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posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 09 2019, @10:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the betteridge-says-no dept.

According to Ofcom, speeds of 24Mbps are currently available to 94 per cent of premises. Yet only 45 per cent have signed up, sticking with their poxy standard ADSL packages of around 11-12Mbps.

A survey of 3,000 customers by Which? suggests that the most common reason for not bothering to upgrade was because people felt happy with their current speeds.

So if people can't be arsed to upgrade from creaking ADSL services to the much-derided "superfast" fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) speeds, why on earth are they going to bother with the far more expensive full-fibre speeds?


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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday August 10 2019, @01:17PM (2 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 10 2019, @01:17PM (#878217) Journal
    Thanks for the info. I would have thought that torrenting would have been a better way to do this but that doesn't mean that some idiot doesn't do it the old fashioned way though!
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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 10 2019, @01:47PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday August 10 2019, @01:47PM (#878227) Journal

    If your home connection is capped at 25 Mbps, torrenting (which could be done behind the scenes in some updaters, although I don't know which ones) won't allow it to go above that. You're still spending at least ~4.5 hours to grab 50 GB.

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    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday August 10 2019, @01:58PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 10 2019, @01:58PM (#878234) Journal

      I know.

      But if you only need such a large bandwidth for rare occasions, it would make sense to torrent and thereby allow others to make better use of the available bandwidth at the same time. As others have pointed out, very few people actually need 100MB to meet a family's needs. What is a 4 hour wait?

      It seems to me to be a very inefficient (and selfish) way to share what, at the end of the day, is still a limited resource - even if that resource is becoming more plentiful every day.