I went ahead and upgraded to Vivid 200 Gamer. I was offered it for £2 extra so I gave it a go. I am getting consistent speed during the day but no noticeable difference to what I had before. I assume the point to changing to the gamer package is to avoid traffic management.
I WANT!!! They still don't cover my area yet
I would be amazed if you saw 70Mb/s through the phone lines... regardless of their claims.
Your gamer package actually seems to be running slow. Are you doing it through wireless? It's worthwhile trying a different server to see if you can max it out. A lot of the servers actually struggle to cope with the bandwidth nowadays.
Meh. If a game downloads in 7 minutes instead of 15, that wouldn't justify an extra £15 every month to me. I could buy an extra game or two with that saving. When you're on dial up speeds I can sympathise that you want big speeds. But in my opinion there's diminishing returns of speed worth once you hit fibre.If I want to play a game - e.g. a trial of a game on EA origin - I generally need to start downloading a day in advance. I'd say 300mbps would have its merits.
Unless you have 4 people streaming content and downloading stuff at the same time.38mbps is enough for streaming 4K btw, at least on YouTube. I haven't had the opportunity to test Netflix or Amazon on it though.