Why i dont buy PC games online

fiNker said:
People are mixing/confused by kilobits and kilobytes. In your first post, the test results are shown in kilobits and the steam downloader is kilobytes. Both are very slow on an 8mb line.
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Yup, I did this.

I just assumed that it couldn't be THAT awful and the speedtest site was showing the incorrect units.



Looks like my calculations are probably pretty close to the mark! :D


Hope you manage to get something sorted Joe!
 
Scotsmania said:
Use a different speedtest, that one is terrible. I just tried it out and it tried to tell me i have 17,584kbps download speed when in reality i have more like 50,000kbps / 6000KB/s ish. The fact that it only goes to 20meg is a dead give away it's an out of date speed test.

32KB/s on Steam... i'd be phoning up the broadband provider and giving them hell, if they didn't fix it i'd move to another company. Even 3's mobile pay as you go dongle gives me about 300KB/s. BT's up to 8meg connection used to give me about 800 - 900KB/s.
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iv had bt m8 its just as crap and £10 per month more

iv just been on the phone to a friends dad who asked if i had a crackly phone (his words not mine :p) which i do, he said this could indicate that there is something physically wrong with my line

any thoughts :confused:
 
Joe P said:
do you think steam will let me install it from the disk in "offline mode"?
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Apparently if you go to 'Run' and type in:

Code: 
"C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -install E:

... it will work.

Obviously change C: to whichever drive you have Steam on and E: to whatever your disc drive is called.
 
Press start

In Windows 7/Vista just use the search box thing in the start menu I think, in XP there will be a Run option.
 
Kenai said:
Press start

In Windows 7/Vista just use the search box thing in the start menu I think, in XP there will be a Run option.
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cheers Kenai and thanks for your time everyone i appreciate it

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hello, i was with sky a year ago, as they didnt have equipment installed in my exchange i was on the sky connect package, it was terrible, at peak times you couldnt even watch a simple video on youtube, i just switched providers to bt because they could offer me a much better speed that works well all through the day, all i can say to you is switch isps because sky connect is terrible
 
Joe P said:
iv had bt m8 its just as crap and £10 per month more

iv just been on the phone to a friends dad who asked if i had a crackly phone (his words not mine :p) which i do, he said this could indicate that there is something physically wrong with my line

any thoughts :confused:
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Yes, it might indicate there is something wrong with your line. Usually I used to get ~4.5-5mbps sync speed on the router, when our line developed some sort of fault which caused the phone line to be crackly and dropped our sync speeds to 100kbps-700kbps with lots of timeouts.

We called BT, who could also hear the crackly noise who sent someone out to fix a couple days later. They fixed the issue and sync speeds went back to what they were before.
 
Kenai said:
No you weren't confusing anyone, it's just their own inability to understand the difference between Kbps and KB/s.

Half a mile though, you should be much better.

I suggest posting in the networking forum in the help section and having someone help you find your line stats and so on - you should be able to get much better than what you get really, something isn't right somewhere along the line.
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Go on samknows and check your distance from the exchange if your a half a mile you would be getting very good speeds.

Sky has by far the very best kit in the exchanges, they about the only provider who have actually a) Upgraded to have way more bandwidth than they need and b) have upgraded to grade A kit.
 
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When i was on virgin 20mb downloading codmw2 on steam along with my other games was a nightmare because of the way virgin would throttle the connection after X amount was downloaded in their limits.
 
I had a very similar issue with BT when I first signed up. Took 3 months and 3 engineer visits before one of them thought of checking the connection in the box between my house & the exchange. Turns out my house was plugged in to a block that had been in the box since the 60s - the guy just pulled it out and plugged it in to a box 6 inches away, and I'm suddenly getting a solid 8Mbps. Saying that, the speed tests that BT were doing remotely weren't coming out at 8Mbps until the switch, unlike Sky saying yours is coming through fine, but it's worth checking.

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Although my desktop network meter widget ran a solid 870 KB/s download throughout the test, so I'm not sure what's happening there.

Edit 2: ProTip - fully star out swearies in your posts. Inserting random exclamation marks to bypass the cuss filter will get you banned.
 
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