How will the world cup affect your broadband?

How will the world cup affect your broadband?

The world cup is still ongoing but question on everyone's lips (that's a geek) is how has the World Cup affected the broadband networks' ability to deliver the goods? We'll quickly answer that question for you before getting bogged down in footballing clichs.

Demand for bandwidth during the World Cup's biggest games so far has increased as a result of large numbers of people logging onto live streams via iPlayer.

The effect of this is that response times are increased and the chance of data packets being lost along the way goes up too.

All this means in real terms is that users are much more likely to be on the receiving end of 'please wait' and 'buffering' notices when they come to use their broadband deals in the real world and for major events which may have been the reason that they got the internet connection in the first place.

One good point however is that overall, at the end of the day, the nation's broadband network performs well on the whole.

So what's the verdict?

In general broadband didn't suffer too much, with an admirable performance across the board - though users may have not experienced the fastest broadband speeds.

Whenever England have played its been a bit of a different story. Our love of being let down by the country's footballers proving to be too much of a draw whether at home or at work.

Data from broadband analysts has shown that latency, or ping times, increased dramatically during the England vs Slovenia match as did the number of lost packets.

This would have created some buffering issues for a minority of users.

How did individual broadband providers perform?

Useful info detailing the performance of individual broadband providers shows us that while most played pretty well, a few had a nightmare.

Big guns TalkTalk, Sky, Virgin Media and Be/O2 all saw more traffic but managed to keep the effects of it to a minimum, letting their users enjoy the game unbuffered.

Demon and BT on the other hand suffered like a left-back being torn apart on the right wing with congestion doubling response times during the match.

The Germany game saw fewer problems all round as the weekend schedule led more viewers to reach for the TV remote rather than the mouse. It definitely had nothing to do with the fact that the Germans trounced us 4 -1.

In general, then, you don't need to worry about your broadband being affected by the world cup but looking at how providers performed in this case could help you to make an educated decision in the future.

As been stated in some mobile broadband reviews, such as the Samsung R530 review which comes with mobile broadband, mobile broadband fared much better.

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