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Lion, how fast is your broadband.

I saw some people complaining that Lion sales won't be spectacular because Apple isn't truly taking into account the spread of good quality download speeds and the lack of broadband access worldwide.

If everyone thought like this there wouldn't be any advancement in the industry. If companies (such as Apple) provide the need for an increased broadband network in terms of bandwidth and coverage then another company will step-up to supply the demand.

If you really think about it, it isn't the biggest issue in the world, if you want it - you'll get Lion somehow. My download speeds are about 40KB/s, it's going to take me hours and hours to download. My brother also has a Mac so he is going to want to download it too. It'll take us ages but we'll get there. I live in one of the most technically backwards parts of the UK but I don't know a single person without an internet connection.

Just my perspective, I respect anyone who would like to voice any other opinions :)
 
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My question is how many times will I need to download it. I have 3 Mac's that I just upgraded to 10.6.8 and it downloaded each one from the internet. Is Lion going to be different. Am I going to be able to download it once, then apply it to all 3??
 
What should I do?

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This is for our 50mb/s Virgin Media connection. At least it's supposed to be 50mb/s.

Ping goes up as far as 300 sometimes, down-speed hovers under 1mb/s for most of the time, cutting out completely for about 30% of the time (took a few minutes to preview this post.)

The service has been like this for us for more than two years, wired or Ethernet, despite numerous visits from Virgin. We keep paying the extortionate sum every month in the hope it will improve. It gets worse, and even made no difference when we moved house and got a new router from them.

We have never achieved above 10mb/s on speedtest.net, although we should see at least 30mb/s on average, so they say. Simple web pages hang on all three Macs in the house for minutes at a time.

Should we be demanding some kind of compensation at this point? I mean, we've paid £1500 for this service so far, and received about £100 pounds worth of internet. It's bloody ridiculous.
 
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Sonic said:
Should we be taking this further at this point? I mean, we've paid £1500 for this service so far, and received about £100 pounds worth of internet.

Should we be demanding some kind of compensation at this point? It's bloody ridiculous.
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I would, as you're clearly not getting the service you pay for. However, it's telling that you're STILL faster than 80% of the UK! :mad:
 
Sonic said:
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Should we be demanding some kind of compensation at this point? I mean, we've paid £1500 for this service so far, and received about £100 pounds worth of internet. It's bloody ridiculous.
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I'm on their 10MB service and constantly get around 9.7MB.

Are you sure your in a fibre optic area and not on their national cable service?
 
Sonic said:
AFAIK, we must be because they only do 50mb/s in these areas...
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There is a postcode search in the broadband section on their website that tells you if your in a fibre optic cable area.
If your not, internet comes down the phone line and speed will be dependant on how far you are from phone exchange etc.

If you are in a fibre optic area then your download speed should be A LOT faster than it is.
 
50 Mbit/sec download. 50 Mbit/sec upload. Fiberoptic cable.
It sometimes even reaches 60 Mbit/sec both up and down.

And you want to hear the ridiculous part? I live in a small village with just over 100 citizens in a small country in Europe and my connection is incredibly cheap. :)
 
I find these numbers fascinating. I usually get around 30MBps down, but I've been thinking about saving a chunk of money by going to a 5MBps plan, because I've monitored this for a month and I've had a grand total of 6 seconds where I've exceed 3MBps, and I have been actively trying to get past that number (downloading several torrents at once while simultaneously opening 8 youtube videos and ESPN3).

In other words, I have no idea what you guys do with so much speed. :confused:
 
Fibre optic 10mb, unfortunaltly due to virgin medias harsh trafficking rates only letting me download 3gb before they slow me down (and they dont even let me download 3gb) down to 5mb (which they dont, i go straight down to 2mb) lion is gonna take a while in its final moments of downloading :mad:
 
fat jez said:
As a Brit, it's embarrassing what every other country gets compared to us :mad:
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What do you mean?

I have 50mb/s and they are rolling out 100mb/s now.

I don't think the UK does too badly for BB speed.

I had a 200mb/s trial connection for about 4 months earlier in the year

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I've heard they are now trialing 1.5Gb/s
 
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I'm signed up for 1.5 Mb/s, but that's the maximum speed. It never gets above 1 Mb/s. Luckily, it doesn't go out every time it rains like it did before. And at@t doesn't provide anything faster in my area!!

I feel so bad. I NEVER knew people get such fast speeds!

If it's about 4 GB, it'll take me about 10 hours to download assuming there are no interruptions on my network. Thankfully, my speed isn't the slowest I've seen on this thread.
 

Think I will be ok, but it'll be my first upgrade, just got my first Imac in April.
 
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