Wet string is faster than many ADSL connections in South Africa

Been wondering about this the past few weeks.
I see a lot of people in the Fibre section mentioning that real-world they can sometimes get buffering etc.

Our compex will be switching over to Fibre soon but I have to say that my crappy 6Mb/s ADSL line almost never has an issue and the best thing I ever did was switch over to a Business Account, just shows you sometimes what a difference the ISP makes. I'd love not to deal with the PTSD I get when the lightning storms pop up out of nowhere though.
 
RaptorSA said:
Been wondering about this the past few weeks.
I see a lot of people in the Fibre section mentioning that real-world they can sometimes get buffering etc.

Our compex will be switching over to Fibre soon but I have to say that my crappy 6Mb/s ADSL line almost never has an issue and the best thing I ever did was switch over to a Business Account, just shows you sometimes what a difference the ISP makes. I'd love not to deal with the PTSD I get when the lightning storms pop up out of nowhere though.
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Fibre can be just as broken as ADSL. Congested exchanges and poor ISP bandwidth are still major issues.
 
Sapphiron said:
Fibre can be just as broken as ADSL. Congested exchanges and poor ISP bandwidth are still major issues.
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I don't have that problem and I'm in a pretty densely populated suburb with at least 800 different complex units. For pretty much everything (within reason) I get my full 50Mbps up and down. Obviously performance varies depending on the server on the other side, I've seen Amazon prime video screw up really bad while trying to watch the Grand Tour, but Netflix streams at a cool 4K without buffering. Blame your ISP, they are probably shaping the crap out of you.
 
Made me think of this...

[video=youtube;7qNj-QFZbew]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qNj-QFZbew[/video]
 
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