>In a development that will “open up the world” to the small village of Halkirk, six miles south of Thurso in Caithness, connection speeds have been supercharged to become 3,000 times faster on average after the installation of a fibre optic network by Highland Broadband.
>The village’s population sits at 950 and its Highland Broadband customers now experience speeds of up to 8000Mbps, allowing locals the opportunity of seamless streaming and lightning-quick downloads.
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>Halkirk had the dubious honour of the slowest broadband internet speed in the UK, at 2.8Mbps on average, according to 2023 research by industry watchdog Broadband Genie, who used data across 12 months of 250,000 speed tests carried out by users.
Not even slightly jealous
Had 50kbps 10 years ago
Got ADSL before the other houses because of that. Got 28mbps yay
6 months later they roll out FTTP
Our houses already had adsl so deemed good enough
Fml
They can stream 1440p porn with no lag. Amazing.
I live in a town and can get 8000 but theres no point so went for 1000 instead for £30 a month and barely reach that even on a recent pc and with a expensive router and ethernet.
I mean I get the actual speed fine up and down but downloading from websites rarely hit that speed, dread to think of 8x that speed.
And the teacher that thinks having the fast speed will be better, it’s not the speed alone its the overal bandwith, if she has like 100 people connecting at 1080p maybe it will be understandable on a single connection but it’s connection quality, even 20 years ago I remember having no noticable lag online gaming yet years later I had more lag as I went for a balance of price and quality so at peak times the service ran worse.
My neighbour saying if you live next to the internet thing its way much faster but we were trying to figure out where that is. Maybe beside that Largs Hadrian Collidor factory?
Higher speed packages are generally intended for households with multiple devices streaming or downloading at the same time. If you’re not hitting full speed from a site, it’s probably because of the server’s limitations, not your own connection or hardware. Multi-gig networking doesn’t require anything fancy.
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>In a development that will “open up the world” to the small village of Halkirk, six miles south of Thurso in Caithness, connection speeds have been supercharged to become 3,000 times faster on average after the installation of a fibre optic network by Highland Broadband.
>The village’s population sits at 950 and its Highland Broadband customers now experience speeds of up to 8000Mbps, allowing locals the opportunity of seamless streaming and lightning-quick downloads.
…
>Halkirk had the dubious honour of the slowest broadband internet speed in the UK, at 2.8Mbps on average, according to 2023 research by industry watchdog Broadband Genie, who used data across 12 months of 250,000 speed tests carried out by users.
Not even slightly jealous
Had 50kbps 10 years ago
Got ADSL before the other houses because of that. Got 28mbps yay
6 months later they roll out FTTP
Our houses already had adsl so deemed good enough
Fml
They can stream 1440p porn with no lag. Amazing.
I live in a town and can get 8000 but theres no point so went for 1000 instead for £30 a month and barely reach that even on a recent pc and with a expensive router and ethernet.
I mean I get the actual speed fine up and down but downloading from websites rarely hit that speed, dread to think of 8x that speed.
And the teacher that thinks having the fast speed will be better, it’s not the speed alone its the overal bandwith, if she has like 100 people connecting at 1080p maybe it will be understandable on a single connection but it’s connection quality, even 20 years ago I remember having no noticable lag online gaming yet years later I had more lag as I went for a balance of price and quality so at peak times the service ran worse.
My neighbour saying if you live next to the internet thing its way much faster but we were trying to figure out where that is. Maybe beside that Largs Hadrian Collidor factory?
Higher speed packages are generally intended for households with multiple devices streaming or downloading at the same time. If you’re not hitting full speed from a site, it’s probably because of the server’s limitations, not your own connection or hardware. Multi-gig networking doesn’t require anything fancy.
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