Super fast broadband?

[Bluelagoon]

Firstly is there truly such a thing?

I work from home and currently use Sky broadband, but I do a lot of uploading of work and could do with the fastest connection I can have.

Can anyone recommend a provider who actually achieves fast broadband in this area?

[fizzmoll]

What up and down speed do you have at the moment? You can use for example http://www.speedtest.net/ to check.

[OzCrackers]

Virgin tends to be better I've found. I used sky previously and switched for same reason. Virgin has it's own problems too - the router is poor quality and sometimes stops working completely however when it does work I get 80Mbps down and 12 up pretty regularly

[Penguin68]

BT offers BT Infinity (Fibre to the cabinet) which does achieve high(ish) speeds for domestic broadband - higher speeds will be achieved if you are directly connected (by cable) to your modem/ router, and if you are not contending with other computers, mobiles, internet TV services etc. in your own house.

If you have a 'busy' household and are connecting via WiFi then things will appear mcuh slower than the system will actually support, if optimised.

But best case, you are talking medium to high 10s and not 100s Mbs

[fizzmoll]

I am on BT fiber in Honor Oak Park - tests give me 75 down, 20 up.

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[Blackcurrant]

I'm on BT infinity (fibre to cabinet, not all the way to house) and get about 35 megabytes per second download, 8 megabytes up, according to speedtest app.

[fizzmoll]

It seems domestic operators max out around 20-50 Mbit/s up. If you need faster than that there are lots of commercial vendors in London that can make that happen, but it tends to be very expensive indeed. As an example, http://www.sohonet.com/ seems to be the common network provider amongst a lot of media companies, offering up to 10Gbit fiber solutions on dedicated fiber.

[edcam]

Virgin great for us. Much better than Sky.

[rodneybewes]

Virgin has a faster download if you can get it but BT tend to have a rock solid 20mb upload speed on infinity. I throw a lot of files up and down ftp and the upload is often faster than the download.

[katanita]

Am on Zen Internet. Had a slightly rocky start getting online with them which wasn't entirely their fault, but very happy with it since. Am on their mid range fibre package, 37mbps download 8-9mbps upload. They do have a faster one as well. It's not the cheapest but I chose them because they got such good reviews.

[Bluelagoon]

Thank for all your responses -

just run the speed test and I have:

download speed of 9.36 mbps

upload speed of 0.77mbps

This is a bit crap isn't it?

The computer in question is connected by cable to the router, and is the sole computer except for the usual iPhones/iPads etc which tend to be used at different times. Might have to look into BT...

[fkfkdkdkd]

I have the Virgin 156 Mbps service... it costs a lot and when it is working well it is lightning... but for the money it is nowhere near as good as it should be. Too many times it drops out and runs below speed.