500 plus people an I still get 55Mbps.

[TechmanagerMal]

Sitting in a rain soaked Lanzarote hotel with all other guests using their devices on WIFI and still manage 55Mbps  on a 150Mbps package when at home on Ultrafast plus I struggle to share that sort of speed with 17 devics?

Still trying to establish why.

[TimmyBGood]

@TechmanagerMal 

I'd hope a hotel has a business-grade wireless distribution system with multiple APs and a high-spec router.

I administer 38 Unifi access points here at work connected back to £3K of Cisco: that tends to be 'better' at WiFi than my BT SmartHub 2 and single Whole Home disk.

[daveNOS]

@TechmanagerMal What tech do you actually manage?

Anyone with even a very modest tech background would understand why hotels can manage better speeds for multiple guests than your average domestic provider and house can.

[TechmanagerMal]

@TimmyBGood 

Surely its a question of scale, 55Mbps out of 150Mbps even with multiple access points which had previously struggled for 15 years and a £3k investmant does not excuse 100 from 500 over the width of a small council  house lounge.

Or do the numbers rise exponentially?

[TechmanagerMal]

@daveNOS 

So your (on topic) answer is?

[Skull+Treaty]

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@TechmanagerMal wrote:

@daveNOS 

So your answer is?

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I think it's here, perhaps I'm mistaken though. 

[TechmanagerMal]

@Skull+Treaty 

?

[TomThumb5ive]

I'm not in the least shocked to hear that a sky product or service is reported to be underperforming !

But rain 🌧. In the Canary Islands!!! that's the real shock !!! 

& to reach as high as 55Mbps from a hotel 🏨 ap. what a shocker!!! 

that's 53 more than I've ever noticed over there 😃

Tom...

[TimmyBGood]

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@TechmanagerMal wrote:

does not excuse 100 from 500 over the width of a small council  house lounge.

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OK: I'm sitting in a room containing a BT Whole Home disk (on ethernet), and about an equal distance away is the Smart Hub 2.  Fast.com on my phone shows 42Mbs, while on the Fire HD in exactly the same place it's 180Mbs. The ethernet PC in the same room 'tests' at 480Mbs. The BT FTTP is 50OMbs.

Conclusion: WiFi is weird and fretting about it is a waste of time as long as any particular device is getting 'enough'.

[daveNOS]

@TechmanagerMal The answer was in my comment, i fail to see how someone who labels themself a techmanager seems to be baffled by the service differences between business grade setups and domestic grade setups.

What tech do you actually manage?

[TechmanagerMal]

@TimmyBGood 

As I have suggested many times fast.com is not reliable, it measures speeds to Netflx servers.

I have a very similar set up to yours, conclusion: Sky should make the potential clear particulary around value for money. What speeds should I expect from Ultrafast or Gigafast?

"Weird" is not a technical measurement for the uninitiated in network topology like myself but I see your point.

[TechmanagerMal]

@TomThumb5ive 

Thanks for your reply and for those who haven't experienced Lanzarote hotels, in my 40 visits they have indeed been unable to supply more than a couple of Mbps at best.

If it was only about the £3k @TimmyBGood mentioned it would have been upgraded long before.

[TimmyBGood]

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@TechmanagerMal wrote:

@TimmyBGood 

As I have suggested many times fast.com is not reliable, it measures speeds to Netflx servers.

My point was the hugely different relative speeds, not their absolute accuracy.

 What speeds should I expect from Ultrafast or Gigafast?

You should 'expect' what the branding says at the router (and over Ethernet, assuming 1000baseT hardware) and then whatever WiFi provides within your particular address which will be different from property to property and device to device because wireless is inherently unreliable.

[TimmyBGood]

@TechmanagerMal 

You might want to ponder the description of a business as an 'Internet Service Provider', not a 'WiFi Provider'.

Frankly ISPs made a dreadful mistake in ever offering wireless capable routers.

[TechmanagerMal]

@TimmyBGood 

Apples and pears?

More specifically, a similar percentage of those speeds achieved with Ultrafast Plus?