Is 12 mbps enough for fast torrent, movies and Iso downloading?

[Falcon1986]

35 minutes ago, JeanMikhael10 said:

most propably ISP Throlling right?

Not necessarily.

 

Evening to late night are peak usage hours, when most people are at home and consuming lots of online content. At very early morning hours, not many people are awake, so consumption is less.

 

While cellular data providers can offer you internet packages, they rarely can guarantee speeds since the maximum bandwidth is dependent on how busy the network is. And cellular networks are already very busy!

[JeanMikhael10]

21 hours ago, Kisai said:

What 4G/5G ISP's have been doing is offering an "unmetered connection" but they throttle at certain bandwidth caps or time-of-day.

 

Basically because 4G/5G are WCDMA technology works by "everyone speaking at the same time, but a different code", when there are more people speaking, more power is required to maintain that bandwidth, as a consequence it's impossible to "throttle" a connection like you would a cable/fiber/dsl connection where you just adjust the profile on the DSLAM or something. For wireless, what they do is (AFAIK) is disable the number of codes the subscriber can speak, thus resulting in like a 0.5 to 0.8mbps bandwidth. Enough for a voice call, but not enough for video.

Ahh, so they reduce amounts of users for faster internet those who using 4g lte on there mobile phones  but we 4g lte wireless routers we eat it the 0.8 mbps

[JeanMikhael10]

21 hours ago, Kisai said:

What 4G/5G ISP's have been doing is offering an "unmetered connection" but they throttle at certain bandwidth caps or time-of-day.

 

Basically because 4G/5G are WCDMA technology works by "everyone speaking at the same time, but a different code", when there are more people speaking, more power is required to maintain that bandwidth, as a consequence it's impossible to "throttle" a connection like you would a cable/fiber/dsl connection where you just adjust the profile on the DSLAM or something. For wireless, what they do is (AFAIK) is disable the number of codes the subscriber can speak, thus resulting in like a 0.5 to 0.8mbps bandwidth. Enough for a voice call, but not enough for video.

Yh thats why tommorow my mom gonna get this instead!

[JeanMikhael10]

21 hours ago, Kisai said:

What 4G/5G ISP's have been doing is offering an "unmetered connection" but they throttle at certain bandwidth caps or time-of-day.

 

Basically because 4G/5G are WCDMA technology works by "everyone speaking at the same time, but a different code", when there are more people speaking, more power is required to maintain that bandwidth, as a consequence it's impossible to "throttle" a connection like you would a cable/fiber/dsl connection where you just adjust the profile on the DSLAM or something. For wireless, what they do is (AFAIK) is disable the number of codes the subscriber can speak, thus resulting in like a 0.5 to 0.8mbps bandwidth. Enough for a voice call, but not enough for video.

Otherwise this! more devices can be connected/higher speed but price little higher! next time when i get an connection i should always look for certain speed otherwise ill be throlled like 4g did to me!

[JeanMikhael10]

Or 100 mpbs better?

[duncannah]

12mbps is only 1.5 MB/s, I wouldn't recommend it. Although, that much money for 100mbps is expensive, we get 1Gbps for less than that...

[Vishera]

12Mbps is very very slow,

For 389 AED you can get the 250 Mbps "Unlimited Starter" pack:

https://www.etisalat.ae/en/c/home/plans/details/elife-unlimited-plans/unlimited-starter.jsp

[Levent]

For me? No. For someone else, might be.

 

These types of questions can only be answered by you.

[whispous]

Faster is faster. Slower is slower.

[LIGISTX]

46 minutes ago, JeanMikhael10 said:

Or 100 mpbs better?

Personally, I couldn’t live with under 60 simply because I stream 4k hdr and don’t want any service to see a dip in speed and start reducing quality. But… that is not something all people “need”. I have 500 mbps and wished I had more, but I also can’t exactly complain. 

[JeanMikhael10]

6 hours ago, duncannah said:

12mbps is only 1.5 MB/s, I wouldn't recommend it. Although, that much money for 100mbps is expensive, we get 1Gbps for less than that...

What to do? Everything is too expensive with us

[JeanMikhael10]

5 hours ago, LIGISTX said:

Personally, I couldn’t live with under 60 simply because I stream 4k hdr and don’t want any service to see a dip in speed and start reducing quality. But… that is not something all people “need”. I have 500 mbps and wished I had more, but I also can’t exactly complain. 

I wished i had more money indeed

[JeanMikhael10]

5 hours ago, Caroline said:

I do all of that with less than 1Mbps so yeah. Minus the fast part of course.

 

The difference between $360 and $300 isn't that big for such an increase in speed. But read everything on the ToS before paying, "unlimited" isn't always literal, might be unlimited for certain sites, just shady things ISP do.

Also what happens after the 24 months commitment? might look into that as well.

I think u renew it again

[JeanMikhael10]

5 hours ago, Levent said:

For me? No. For someone else, might be.

 

These types of questions can only be answered by you.

I did, i think 12 mbps is ny choice because me and my family who dont like to download things nor we will!

[LIGISTX]

1 minute ago, JeanMikhael10 said:

I did, i think 12 mbps is ny choice because me and my family who dont like to download things nor we will!

If you don’t stream much content, or stream in 720p or low bitrate 1080p, it’ll be fine. “Fast torrenting” I suppose depends on your definition of fast. 

[JeanMikhael10]

6 hours ago, Vishera said:

12Mbps is very very slow,

For 389 AED you can get the 250 Mbps "Unlimited Starter" pack:

https://www.etisalat.ae/en/c/home/plans/details/elife-unlimited-plans/unlimited-starter.jsp

Ok ill go for elife family then 100 mpbs with less price u said 360 instead 380! yes u reminded me of shamal service they have maxiumium 12 mbps with ver low price like 100 aed my dad subscribed to it because he is most stingy person on earth

[JeanMikhael10]

6 hours ago, duncannah said:

12mbps is only 1.5 MB/s, I wouldn't recommend it. Although, that much money for 100mbps is expensive, we get 1Gbps for less than that...

In etisalat uae its 1000 dirhams

[JeanMikhael10]

3 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

If you don’t stream much content, or stream in 720p or low bitrate 1080p, it’ll be fine. “Fast torrenting” I suppose depends on your definition of fast. 

No ofcourse we want to stream hd 720 to 1080p otherwise ill go for 100 mbps

[JeanMikhael10]

6 hours ago, duncannah said:

12mbps is only 1.5 MB/s, I wouldn't recommend it. Although, that much money for 100mbps is expensive, we get 1Gbps for less than that...

 

[LIGISTX]

2 minutes ago, JeanMikhael10 said:

No ofcourse we want to stream hd 720 to 1080p otherwise ill go for 100 mbps

Well if you have 12mbps now and it is enough… then your fine. If it’s not, then your not fine. 
 

12 mbps can support 2 1080p YouTube streams at once, but not really anything else while your streaming. If that is enough, then your good   

[JeanMikhael10]

3 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Well if you have 12mbps now and it is enough… then your fine. If it’s not, then your not fine. 
 

12 mbps can support 2 1080p YouTube streams at once, but not really anything else while your streaming. If that is enough, then your good   

Yes, its more than enough!

[JeanMikhael10]

2 hours ago, LIGISTX said:

Well if you have 12mbps now and it is enough… then your fine. If it’s not, then your not fine. 
 

12 mbps can support 2 1080p YouTube streams at once, but not really anything else while your streaming. If that is enough, then your good   

Its better to go for 100 mpbs because as far as im concerned they will reduce the speed with fair usage to 50 mpbs instead 1 mpbs of 12 mpbs

[Vishera]

5 hours ago, JeanMikhael10 said:

u said 360 instead 380!

You misread what i wrote,you even quoted me saying it's 389 AED.

3 hours ago, JeanMikhael10 said:

Its better to go for 100 mpbs because as far as im concerned they will reduce the speed with fair usage to 50 mpbs instead 1 mpbs of 12 mpbs

100 Mbps is an OK speed but you will get more for your money with the 250 Mbps plan.

[JeanMikhael10]

5 hours ago, Vishera said:

You misread what i wrote,you even quoted me saying it's 389 AED.

100 Mbps is an OK speed but you will get more for your money with the 250 Mbps plan.

Ah just like they lied to me in 4g du that i get 100 mpbs in du i got nothing but 0 mpbs at night 30 mbps in morning but in etisalat its reality but du sc@m, i think 100 mpbs is enough for me and for my family its 10 m/s instead 12 mpbs = 1 m/s download speed  meaning ill go for 360 dirhams

[JeanMikhael10]

5 hours ago, Vishera said:

You misread what i wrote,you even quoted me saying it's 389 AED.

100 Mbps is an OK speed but you will get more for your money with the 250 Mbps plan.

389 is quite expensive to my mom she is the one paying the internet not me