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[ef37a]

On this venerable Lenovo my download speed never cracks 80mbps but upload nearly matches it at 70 or so. Often download is 45-50 and upload faster at 60mbps!

That is wi fi. On cable the laptop is much faster 500, 700+ often but upload is always stuck at 110. I think upload speed is limited by the ISP?

When I had my son's W11 laptop it managed 240mbps on wireless. I guess the NIC in the Lenovo is the problem?

Dave.

[Hugh Robjohns]

... the big increase in Upload speed will be most welcome, as my Virgin 1Gbit service only ever delivers me approx 750Mbits download and a poxy 35-45Mbits upload.

A friend (and occasional contributor to SOS) has a Starlink V3 satellite connection at his studio which is in a converted stable building in the middle of the Herefordshire wilderness. No other broadband connection was viable. He typically gets 280Mbps down and 24Mbps up, and he's pretty happy with that. He's constantly uploading Dolby Atmos cues for films and games — ie. big multichannel mixes.

He also has a V2 dish at his (nearby) house and typically gets 195 down and 24 up from that. Apparently both are very reliable.

I wouldn't know what to do with 750Mbps down
let alone 45Mbps upload!

[ef37a]

"I wouldn't know what to do with 750Mbps down
let alone 45Mbps upload!"
To be quite honest Hugh, I don't know either! The speed came with the fibre package. The lack of phone charges is nice and the VOiP phones very clear (tho' I wish they did a Btooth one!) The EE streaming box is fine though I might now reinstate my Firestick now that I have 4 spare HDMI slots, the EE box can record. At my advanced age I can see I shall be watching more and more telly!

But, day to day on the internet the higher speeds do not seem to have any benefits? My FTTC speed was about half to a third what I have now on wireless. Upload never better than 8mbps. If I had a large file to Wetransfer to son I guess it would help but for download it seems few sources are better than 10mbps?

Dave.

[Forum Admin]

I'm seriously exploring SpaceX Starlink for my studio wi-fi, as it's approx £75/month in the UK for the top-tier/speed.

From reading up, it generally gives leased line equivalent up/down matching speeds... my Virgin 1Gbit service only ever delivers me approx 750Mbits download and a poxy 35-45Mbits upload.

Sorry for unwittingly misleading y'all - STARLINK does NOT offer matching up/down speeds in the UK; it's typically less than what my current Virgin 1Gbps (ie. 1000 Gigabits maximum download in theory, divided by 8 bits =125 Megabytes per second) broadband offers in Upload speeds.

According to SpaceX:

Starlink delivers speeds up to 400+ Mbps in most places globally, giving you the freedom to enjoy 4K streaming on multiple devices at once, effective working from home, online gaming, social media browsing, and more.

[Hugh Robjohns]

If I were you I'd stick with Virgin... better speeds, no new upfront cost, and no money to Elonazi.

[Forum Admin]

"I wouldn't know what to do with 750Mbps down
let alone 45Mbps upload!"

To be quite honest Hugh, I don't know either! The speed came with the fibre package...

But, day to day on the internet the higher speeds do not seem to have any benefits? My FTTC speed was about half to a third what I have now on wireless. Upload never better than 8mbps. If I had a large file to Wetransfer to son I guess it would help but for download it seems few sources are better than 10mbps?

Dave.

As a business user with a home 1Gbps download, giving me measurably 750Mbps on Virgin the fast speed is very welcome, especially when my son comes home and hogs the bandwidth for his multi-user global shoot'em-up game!

But more and more of what I do is making use of SaaS (software as a service) apps like Xero accounts, ChatGPT, accessing this 'ere website's back office CMS and Adobe Creative Cloud tools. Stuff just opens snappier - like working on a Mac compared to Windows feels to me. [Not intending to start a flame war, so back down please. I'm just reporting what I feel/notice -- though I do run Windows 11 via my Parallels emulator on Apple Silicon M4 MacBook Pro.]

[Forum Admin]

If I were you I'd stick with Virgin... better speeds, no new upfront cost, and no money to Elonazi.

We will have to have Sky Broadband to run the Sky TV services we have grown accustomed to, but I like to have a separate business broadband that is for SOS work during the day, then wasting my evenings updating software and plug-ins and not getting any music recorded.

We canned Virgin when we moved out of the house while it is remodelled, so there would be new costs. However, City Fibre dug up the streets where we live and installed fibre (Virgin is fibre) and they are offering multiple choice of broadband suppliers, so we might give them a shot.

https://cityfibre.com/about-us/rollout/ ... ridgeshire

[ef37a]

"I wouldn't know what to do with 750Mbps down
let alone 45Mbps upload!"

To be quite honest Hugh, I don't know either! The speed came with the fibre package...

But, day to day on the internet the higher speeds do not seem to have any benefits? My FTTC speed was about half to a third what I have now on wireless. Upload never better than 8mbps. If I had a large file to Wetransfer to son I guess it would help but for download it seems few sources are better than 10mbps?

Dave.

As a business user with a home 1Gbps download, giving me measurably 750Mbps on Virgin the fast speed is very welcome, especially when my son comes home and hogs the bandwidth for his multi-user global shoot'em-up game!

But more and more of what I do is making use of SaaS (software as a service) apps like Xero accounts, ChatGPT, accessing this 'ere website's back office CMS and Adobe Creative Cloud tools. Stuff just opens snappier - like working on a Mac compared to Windows feels to me. [Not intending to start a flame war, so back down please. I'm just reporting what I feel/notice -- though I do run Windows 11 via my Parallels emulator on Apple Silicon M4 MacBook Pro.]

Ah yes, I get that. I am one old guy on his own and not juggling sixteen "internet things" all the time!

Dave.

[Wonks]

And you’ll be funding the fascists.

[ef37a]

And you’ll be funding the fascists.

"You talkin' to me!?

Dave.

[Wonks]

And you’ll be funding the fascists.

"You talkin' to me!?

Dave.

No, Forum Admin talking about Starlink X Somehow a whole load of posts appeared in the meantime!

[Martin Walker]

...I had expected that when the chap came to fibre me that I would get a new one? Not so, you get an extra wee white box put on the wall inside the house with four LEDs on it. Three are green and last on the left red. The green LED next to red flickers all the time, other two are steady. Red never comes on. The guy said, "If it does, shout".
That box feeds the hub 2 with an Ethernet cable.

I have exactly the same Dave. The red light will come on if you ever totally lose your fibre connection to the outside world, as I found out a couple of months ago when the electricity board severed the fibre cable supplying five local households while up a telegraph pole during routine upgrades to mains cables.

[ef37a]

And you’ll be funding the fascists.

"You talkin' to me!?

Dave.

No, Forum Admin talking about Starlink X Somehow a whole load of posts appeared in the meantime!

Ah! Yer slowing down matey!

Dave.

[Wonks]

I have a bad index finger on my right hand from a burn - so it’s all blistered and makes typing hard, so I have to do a lot of corrections as my fingertip is twice as wide as normal.

[ef37a]

I have a bad index finger on my right hand from a burn - so it’s all blistered and makes typing hard, so I have to do a lot of corrections as my fingertip is twice as wide as normal.

You have my sympathy! I am much the same on phone screens but then I am a monocular klutz! If I HAVE to type stuff accurately I dig out one of those rubber tipped poky things.

Dave.

[Forum Admin]

If anyone notices an improvement or not in Forum page load speeds today going forward, it's because our WebDev realised the following:

"whilst I had disabled IPv6 entirely on www.soundonsound.com, I hadn't done so on forum.soundonsound.com. This is now gone, so in theory both the Forum iFrames and the main site are now pure IPv4."

Apologies if it's been causing grief.

Ian G.

[ef37a]

If anyone notices an improvement or not in Forum page load speeds today going forward, it's because our WebDev realised the following:

"whilst I had disabled IPv6 entirely on www.soundonsound.com, I hadn't done so on forum.soundonsound.com. This is now gone, so in theory both the Forum iFrames and the main site are now pure IPv4."

Apologies if it's been causing grief.

Ian G.

I had not noticed but yes, it is pretty much back to normal for me.

Dave.

[Forum Admin]

I have a bad index finger on my right hand from a burn - so it’s all blistered and makes typing hard, so I have to do a lot of corrections as my fingertip is twice as wide as normal.

Have you tried Mac speech to text in Accessibility? I dictate most of my emails and some Forum posts.

One gets used to saying: "Full stop. New line, new line" for paragraph spacing, for instance. Works a treat.

Unsure if Windows has a similar feature?

[ef37a]

I have a bad index finger on my right hand from a burn - so it’s all blistered and makes typing hard, so I have to do a lot of corrections as my fingertip is twice as wide as normal.

Have you tried Mac speech to text in Accessibility? I dictate most of my emails and some Forum posts.

One gets used to saying: "Full stop. New line, new line" for paragraph spacing, for instance. Works a treat.

Unsure if Windows has a similar feature?

Do those around you think you are Bat **** crazy Ian?

Dave.

[OneWorld]

I have a bad index finger on my right hand from a burn - so it’s all blistered and makes typing hard, so I have to do a lot of corrections as my fingertip is twice as wide as normal.

Ouch, that sounds painful, maybe you need a keyboard that's not a QHURTY keyboard?

[Forum Admin]

Ouch, that sounds painful, maybe you need a keyboard that's not a QHURTY keyboard?

LOL. ROFL.

[Wonks]

Generally running very slowly today for me. Long pauses and half-pages showing. Sometimes quick but generally either slow or very slow.

BT hub speed test shows it’s working OK (or at least it thinks it does).

[FrankF]

Forum slow to...unequivocally condemn and prosecute threads with unfinished sentences for titles?
Surely this is a non-crime-forum-hate incident?

Got a few 404s over here in Bledsville, France.

In other news, a neighbour's dog barked slowly at about 10am this morning.

[zenguitar]

Same experience here. The occasional really slow page and time out.

I imagine there's another mass scraping attempt on the go if past experience is anything to go by.

Andy

[OneWorld]

I think the days of unfettered, seamless and unintrusive internet, a connected but on your terms are long gone.

ONly t'other day I was listening to a report on the BBC that there is a new app using Ring doorbells. It is called 'Search Party' If your dog goes missing, the cams in the ring doorbells are all switched on and activity in the street is monitored to help trace the dog.

However, the reporter expanded on that speaking of concerns, one of those concerns being that a cam can be switched on remotely, and Amazon told by the police to switch on all cameras.

OK, the option can be turned off, but the default setting is 'on' s basically why we should express concern about snooping CCTV when there's a nationwide network of cams, on every street, can be remotely controlled.

Thus far, I have resisted setting up a Facebook account. But I want somewhere I can have an online photo album. I did have one which has now become so intrusive, and perplexing, it used to be so simple, anyone remember the shambles that MySpace became? Same thing.

However I was chatting to a pal in the pub last night, who does have a FB account and he said "Don't bother, it is an absolute crock of cwap, your page and email will be flooded with nothing but tosh, it is a well known fact that Meta sells on your data to all and sundry"

And I guess that sites such as SOS is scraped mercillessly, the data centres are a monster we've created so have to feed it because of the insatiable demand for data. We never used to have these problems with the Forum.

There are also reports appearing that the US version of TikTok is becoming infested with stuff that seems to have a connection with T Rump and it's becoming clear why T Rump wanted TikTok, with a 170 million users, it is a very useful tool, and Larry Ellison seems to be cropping up everywhere.

Seems those responsible for the Forum have their work cut out when it seems the whole internet is going to be in the hands of a clutch of the uber-rich all of whom break bread with T Rump - We're Doomed