Hi,
Just posting this after some messing around on Saturday. At home we use LTE as the main Internet connection, with ADSL as backup (plus a few things preferentially routed over ADSL). ADSL is around 3.5meg download and 800k upload. On Saturday there was a local LTE outage, taking out Three from both masts within range and incidentally also taking out EE but not O2.
What struck me was how many things simply did not work on the ADSL. For example some BBC news pages would time out. Three user account login returned an error. Google Drive synch threw the most enormous sulk, even the preferences menu was greyed out. Deleting all settings it simply wouldn't connect to the Google account. During this time the ADSL wasn't maxed out, although it was carrying traffic. So I am a bit puzzled as to what was actually happening, what were these applications and web pages doing that causes an almost immediate error on a 3.5meg connection?
If this is really the case then it's clearly a change over the last few years as we used to run everything over that same ADSL, with perfectly acceptable performance given the speed.
I would be interested in comments or thoughts. It would be disappointing if people are now creating web sites and services that simply won't work without at least a five or 10 meg connection. Just locally there are a lot of places in Aberdeenshire where you are lucky to even get 2meg.