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| Connection speed required for YouTube. Image from Google Hrlp |
Unless you have lots of people in your home feeding off your Internet service and sharing the bandwidth, ultra-high-speed connection promotions such as "Gigabit broadband" are just marketing hype. These are the recommended connection speeds from Google for streaming video from YouTube. Vodafone keeps trying to sell me such a service using a fibre-optic connection that replaces copper wires to the cabinet and which would increase my speed from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps, but I'm stubbornly refusing as the current speed is perfectly adequate. A faster connection probably increases upload speed (which I think is normally about one tenth of download speed), but most people aren't in a hurry when uploading, unless they can't wait to backup thousands of photos or put their latest video online. Eventually I'll have to give in, because copper lines, which Vodafone rent from Eir, will ultimately be replaced. The process is slow, because there are legacy systems that still require them.
I ring Vodafone every year, three months before my contract is due for renewal and negotiate a loyalty discount, getting a six-month discount. It's only €5 per month for 6 months, but better than nothing.
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