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LiamM
Member

Hello, guys!

 

Well. I moved from TalkTalk a little while ago due to having a download speed of 0.90 Kbps and an Upload of 0.25 Kbps when I was meant to have 8 Mbps... It wouldn't even allow me to watch YouTube videos on 240p quality at times!! Yet they constantly stressed that it was my side causing these issues, after a while I began disconnecting randomly, once again was said to be on my side... So I decided to come to BT and boy was I impressed.

 

My area only allows a max of 7Mbps but I get 6.5 Mbps Download and that's so much better! I can do my daily game downloads on Steam and Origin relatively quickly. I can watch Netflix (Which I never could do) and I can also watch YouTube videos at any quality even at night!


However.. I do some gameplay streaming as I run a small community consisting of a number of admins and other Live streamers, but my upload only sits at 0.35 Kbps with BT. My download is brilliant but when it comes to streaming it's more upload that is required rather than download speed. Now it can stream relatively ago with the odd frame drop (lagg) to the viewers that I reguarly have watch.. but I know some BT customers have upload speeds exceeding 1Mbps etc.. Is there any way I can upgrade the upload on the package I have? or is it down to the max speed I can get in this area?

 

Thank you for reading this and I look forward to your responses.

 

Liam

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Burkem5
Guru

Hi LiamM

I'm glad to hear you are enjoying your new BT broadband, as regards upload speed my understanding of this is that this is not guaranteed on an ADSL (download focused) broadband system - which you appear to have. 

 

That being said MHC - one of the forum gurus does have some tips for getting a higher upload speed from your service.

 

This post has more info on this

 

hope this helps

 

Burkem5