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[udp]

Pretty standard in the UK outside of major towns/cities.

[zimpenfish → udp]

Not that uncommon outside of major towns/cities either - I was getting barely 12Mbps on ADSL in inner London, and that only 600m from an exchange.

[nicoburns → zimpenfish]

ADSL speeds aren't great, but fibre is available almost everywhere in cities in the UK...

[zimpenfish → nicoburns]

True. Although even on fibre, I only get 25Mbps peak. Often it's hovering around 18-20Mbps (which is not quite enough for 4K streaming, IIRC.)

[somabc → zimpenfish]

Of course that's fake fibre aka fibre to the green cabinet in your street. The UK allows that to be marketed as fibre despite the large difference in performance to a real fibre connection.

[zimpenfish → somabc]

Having since upgraded to real fibre (I saw the man splice it into the router connector with my own eyes), the difference is staggering - now I regularly get 500Mbps+ up and down with not infrequent 800Mbps+.

[emteycz → zimpenfish]

And even that is surely not just for you, but shared.