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[Bungle]

is this good ?

http://www.speedtest...t/205386376.png

[blue redtop]

i have no idea.
how do you test to see how fast things are running.

[Bungle]

clicky

[blue redtop]

i think mine is bad.
and i up graded last week to.
with ntl

[Jammy]

Well its not exactly using your 8 Meg modem to its full potential! Thats a touch under 2 meg downloading and 0.2 Meg uploading. Unless your constantly uploading and attaching files then your upload speed doesn't have a great significance. You download speed is ok, nothing special. You could probably downgrade your package to 4 Meg and not notice much difference in speed.

[Bungle]

that's Cornwall for you

a slow pace of life even for broad band

[flyer]

is this good ?

http://www.speedtest...t/205386376.png

i think mine is bad.
and i up graded last week to.
with ntl

it looks like bungle you are only on a 2 meg line and blue red top is on a 4 meg line
kb/s stands for kilobytes per second

[sixwheeler]

No, not great.

The upload speed is restricted (hence the A in ADSL - Asymetric) so will never be that fast. Used to be maxed at 256, but now will run up to about 400.

Download speed totally depends on how many other people are using the same circuit. You will find at 3am that your down load speed is going to be much better as there are less people online. This is all to do with the Contention Ratio. The lower the contention ratio, the less people using it and therefore a more stable higher speed is available.

[Holly]

Bout a million times faster than mine! stupid student accomadation

Edited by Holly, 24 November 2007 - 01:00 PM.

[minili]

There was one of these a lil while ago!

Mine...


And we're on a 4MB line (not an "up-to...") so it's doing what it says on the tin! The upload went up to about 340 before dropping down again too.

Normally, I can get downloads at up to 0.5Mb/second

[Silicon Skum]

blue redtop :


Modem data is measured in megabits, and a bit is less than a byte (8 bits in a byte, 1024 bytes = 1 Kbyte, 1024 Kbytes = 1 Meagabyte), and there is a trend in IT industries to bastardized Meagabyte to mean 1000 bytes instead of 1024.

So , that actual connetion speed shows 3.8Megabits or to put it another way, a tad under 4Meg. If yours is an 8meg line, then you have prolly just gone over the "bandwidth shaping" limit (sometime just before 4pm and sometime after 1.30am - supposed to be 4pm - 12am...... ) that VM have, at which point your connection gets cut in half - so that's about right then. Oh and also nearly ALL weekend is traffic shaped by VM, so to get an accurate measure of line speed you have to test at 2AM on a weekday (seriously - the trafic management is THAT draconian!).


Bungle, same applies to you, check what capping and traffic shaping is done by your ISP - C&W DO traffic shape, but I'm not sure on specifics. Also try a speed test during "off hours" on a weekday, as opposed to a weekend when the network is busy and being traffic managed by all ISPs (because they are too cheap, and lining their own pockets, to actually spend any of the money they make on investing in upgraded infrastructure!). Also try a different server - Maidenhead is a main head-end node, bound to be busy at peak times.

Agreed with what jammy says though, you'll not notice a difference with a lower speed service. The 20Mb services are NOT worth it, you will *NEVER* see that sort of speed, and 8 - 10Mb is the norm - so save some cash and stick with a lower service (and less of a harsh traffic managing setup too).

SS

Edited by Silicon Skum, 24 November 2007 - 01:28 PM.

[Jordie]

8mb talktalk connection. Shows 8mb on my router status, but i only get max download speeds of 600kb/s so that looks about right.

Edited by Jordie, 24 November 2007 - 10:09 PM.

[TJenkos]

Oh dear

[Neon]

I'm with BT, got 8mb broadband I think.

[Silicon Skum]

2Mb Virgin Media connection (cable - ex-Telewest):




Slightly higher than normal, usuall about 1989 down, up doesn't change much - tops out at 243K Max.

SS