New Fibre connection 60mb speed test yet 700kb downloads?

MrMartyn1984

MrMartyn1984

MrMartyn1984

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Hi all,

As title says, I just got fibre installed today, ran a speed test it said 60mb down and 12 up, ping test said line was fine and gave a grade A? No packet loss.

Tried to download a test file of 1gb and only get 700kb max? If did burst to 7MB/s for about 10 seconds only once and after that it's always 600-700kb?

Tried different site for test files of 1gb to download and always around 700kb. Computer is connected by Ethernet, laptop on wireless does the same?

I spoke to SSE who said to give it 7 days for the line to 'settle' does this sound right or is something else up?

Cheers.
 
I should add,

Everything else is perfectly fine, YouTube loads really fast, doesn't seem to lag loading web pages... Just download speed is pathetic.
 
dont listen to that crap that they come out with on the phone.

with fibre it does not matter if your connected for 1 day or 100 days it will be the same speed on day 1 as it will be for day 100....

the reason they say wait 10 days is for the DLM to study your line for abnormality and fine tune it for most stable.....

but with fibre if your not getting its maximum speed on day 1 you wont get it on day 10.

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Try using a download manager if you can and give it 30 connections to the same download link and see if you stay @ your max.
 
I'm more confused now,

Using Usenet and an SSL connection I can get a solid 7.2MB/s,

Yet update iTunes it goes so bloody slow, download any file through a browser and it's only hitting 600-700kb/s, tried different browsers all give same result.

Could they(ISP) be throttling my service somehow?
 
MrMartyn1984 said:
I'm more confused now,

Using Usenet and an SSL connection I can get a solid 7.2MB/s,

Yet update iTunes it goes so bloody slow, download any file through a browser and it's only hitting 600-700kb/s, tried different browsers all give same result.

Could they(ISP) be throttling my service somehow?
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They could be throttling http during peak hours ? wich would be weird.
though if your getting max speed on newsgroups and download managers then you either have QOS enabled for HTTP or your browser needs to have its connections higher.

check your browser settings and see if you can up the concurrent connections from 10 to 30+ or something.
 
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