Broadband Internet should be at least 10 Mbps

[Batu69]

Broadband is a convoluted term, but market research firm Ovum wants to bring some restrictions, claiming 10Mbps should be the minimum download speed to use the term.

Market performance and surveys suggest that 10Mbps is the lowest speed customers will accept from their broadband provider. Anything lower, and it is unusable on today’s Internet, which needs broadband for high-quality video streaming and video gaming.

Three second loading speeds, stable connection and excellent tech support are also factors in customer’s decisions on broadband providers. Internet speed trumps all however, with a big reliance on having speeds over 50Mbps in new homes.

The Ovum speed rank would meet with the UK’s average broadband speed, currently at between 11 and 23Mbps depending on the source. Ofcom claims that the average broadband speed is 23Mbps, but other analysts claim it is much lower.

Even though this is the terminology for broadband right now, things will quickly move from 10Mbps to 50Mbps, according to several broadband analysts. With the rise in 4K video, always-on smart home equipment, and massive online video games, customers will need faster speeds, especially considering more people are going to be on the Internet at any one time.

Thankfully, those speeds already exist on most broadband providers. Sky, Talktalk, and BT all offer speeds up to 100Mbps, but Virgin Media has gone beyond what the other three offer with its 152Mbps package.

The UK was ranked in eighth place by Ovum, tied with the US and Russia on customer experience. Sweden was ranked first and all of the Nordic countries came in the top 10, showing the superior Internet service available in those countries.

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[emerglines]

Still isn't enough to download GTA 5 lol!

[Rok]

Sounds good, when we talk about internet connection at 10 Mbps, or 50 Mbps. But, the actual download speed is 1:8, Plus FUP's and throttling on sites. So, it's just any eyewash on most ISPs.

[212eta]

Wishful thinking

during the World Economic Crisis... :mellow:

[Rok]

Wishful thinking

during the World Economic Crisis... :mellow:

It's only for consumers. The gov and these ISPs are beyond any crisis, coz' they charge exorbitantly, yet the consumer don't get 'what's promised. The end user gets only the talibani internet with so much of network and connectivity restrictions such as: you cann't run VPN, Torrents are blocked, Video /Photo sites etc. sites are heavily throttled. And top of all. browsing / download / upload speed is 1:8 ratio. WTF.

[DKT27]

Sounds good, when we talk about internet connection at 10 Mbps, or 50 Mbps. But, the actual download speed is 1:8, Plus FUP's and throttling on sites. So, it's just any eyewash on most ISPs.

If you are talking about India, then I think this FUP thing is only a part here. Other countries probably do not have such a widespread FUP and even if they have, the cap is far higher than what we can find here.

While I have no idea why the internet speeds here are so crappy, I think that it has to do with lack of international internet highways as some of them are suggesting about it.

[dcs18]

Broadband is a convoluted term, but market research firm Ovum wants to bring some restrictions, claiming 10Mbps should be the minimum download speed to use the term.

Download speed is not a qualifying condition for the term "Broadband" — rather, it is bandwidth interoperability across a wide range of signal and traffic which defines the word.

[knowledge-Spammer]

i am with Broadband i mean i use Broadband

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[212eta]

Wishful thinking

during the World Economic Crisis... :mellow:

It's only for consumers. The gov and these ISPs are beyond any crisis, coz' they charge exorbitantly,

yet the consumer don't get 'what's promised',

and the end user gets only the talibani internet with so much of network and connectivity restrictions such as:

you cann't run VPN, Torrents blocked, Video/Photo etc. sites throttling. Browsing / download speed are 1:8 ratio. WTF.

Yeap...That's the bitter truth... :yes:

[CODYQX4]

Wishful thinking

during the World Economic Crisis... :mellow:

It's only for consumers. The gov and these ISPs are beyond any crisis, coz' they charge exorbitantly,

yet the consumer don't get 'what's promised',

and the end user gets only the talibani internet with so much of network and connectivity restrictions such as:

you cann't run VPN, Torrents blocked, Video/Photo etc. sites throttling. Browsing / download speed are 1:8 ratio. WTF.

Yeap...That's the bitter truth... :yes:

Never forget that 2009, which started with the recession, was a "year of record productivity". You kinda get those stats when you fire 50% and work the other 50% 2.5 times harder AND for less money then before.

[steven36]

They pass laws and stuff to let any isp come in but the bottom line no business comes in places were there's no jobs ..were I'm from had jobs the whole 20th century thorough all recessions and the great depression . But every since the Great Recession 2007-2009 here is it is 2015 and its very hard to find work.. Almost all our jobs are in China . Some places never even snapped out of the last recession . Things are worse here than during the great depression was in this area so when I read post like these I dont think Ill see it unless I move away in my lifetime. :s

[212eta]

Wishful thinking

during the World Economic Crisis... :mellow:

It's only for consumers. The gov and these ISPs are beyond any crisis, coz' they charge exorbitantly,

yet the consumer don't get 'what's promised',

and the end user gets only the talibani internet with so much of network and connectivity restrictions such as:

you cann't run VPN, Torrents blocked, Video/Photo etc. sites throttling. Browsing / download speed are 1:8 ratio. WTF.

Yeap...That's the bitter truth... :yes:

Never forget that 2009, which started with the recession, was a "year of record productivity".

You kinda get those stats when you fire 50% and work the other 50%

2.5 times harder AND for less money then before.

No doubt...

[Cereberus]

i would argue that 20mbps should be the minimum because with 10mbps i couldn't even stream youtube 60fps 1080p without it stuttering from trying to preload the cache.

[CODYQX4]

I personally think it is sad that things are so backwards that we aim so low.

In the past, the ISPs were given huge amounts of money (tax money), and claimed we'd get much better than what they gave us. They spun it like we were going to get fiber, but we got crappy DSL as they banked billions.

In a way, these scummy backstabbing thieves owe us a lot more than a 10Mbps minimum. Had they not reamed us sans grease like that, we might have a 50Mbps minimum, at least in most of USA. It isn't hard to provide that service when someone else is paying for all or most of the deployment, right?

[DKT27]

I'm not sure about other places, but I had heard that here, the total costs an ISP has to face can be about one third of what people pay for.