DSL
       
Broadband
Type
Speed*
1GB
Photo album
4.7GB
Standard video
25GB
HD Video
Fibre
100Mbps download
100Mbps upload
1 min 23 sec
6 min 31 sec
34 min 40 sec
TV signal distribution
       
50Mbps download
10Mbps upload
2 min 46 sec
13 min 52 sec
13 min 2 sec
1 hr 5 min
1 hr 9 min
5 hr 47 min
7 hr 55 min
-
1 hr 29 min
11 hr 54 min
19 min 0 sec
2 hr 32 min
8Mbps download
1Mbps upload
How fast is Fibre?
Fibre is 50 times faster than a standard copper connection transferring 2 megabytes per second. For example, a high definition full length movie can be downloaded in less than 35 minutes rather than almost eight hours over a standard (copper-based) DSL line.
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