UK broadband is among the slowest in Europe

[alphamule]

The main benefit of fiber optics to me is not as much the down speed but the up speed, 40mbit down is what I would get with adsl compared to the 100mbit I get with fiber optics, however the just 2mbit up is really a killer, while I don't need 100mbit up 2mbit is just to little to even use torrents decently. Also nice to see that the Netherlands firmly holds its first place within europe.

Ditto. I don't really care much for the difference between 10Mb/second and 20Mb/second on downloads. That's still as fast as old USB 1.1 devices, no matter which speed you get. Now going from 1Mb/second to 10Mb/second on uploads is an entirely different matter. It makes stuff like I2P and H@H a lot more practical.

 

[Rydian]

Also uploading youtube videos stops becoming a "leave it on all night" thing.

 

[qlum]

Also uploading youtube videos stops becoming a "leave it on all night" thing.

I can imagine but for me if I upload to youtube its taking longer to convert 1080p video by youtube than it takes to upload it.

 

[alphamule]

Which is sad... unless you have a 386 or something. In that case, pretty much any 'always-on' connection will slay the time record. Funny, though: Because of overhead, a 486 DX4 running at 100MHz will upload a lot slower than a 2GHz+ system, no matter if both are being limited by something like USB 1.0 speeds on the medium or 1Mb upload. I have a laptop that because of the older CPU and (slow/inefficient) Intel chipset, will max out at around 2Mb/s (256KB/s) downloads yet get 8+ on speed tests. This is on the same connection that my tower gets upto around 8Mb/s(1MB/s) on downloads from a single connection and almost near the maximum for my connection's limit on speed tests.