2015-08-26, 20:10
(2015-08-26, 15:48)DelandeC Wrote: The upload speed is not (less) important. 0.9Mbps is more than enough.
If I remember well, 2.5GB was for a massive storm over Netherlands in the end of May.
Yesterday I used 300MB.
That is still 45 minutes of 100% of my upload speed. If I am using all the upstream capacity, the downstream rate drops to less than 10% of normal speed. I am not sure this is going to work with the rural French internet I have. It has just been upgraded this year with a better fibre "pipe" to the village exchange, which increased my downstream rate from 5 Mb/sec to 18-19 Mb/sec, so it will not get upgraded further, to say fibre to the property, for a long time. We were supposed to get VDSL/2+ in France like I have just got at my UK house, which would have trebled the upstream rate but apparently the copper wires from the exchange to my property were too poor and it did not work at all. It then took the "wonderful" Orange four weeks to reinstate the ADSL, which they had switched off in error.