What is your actual download speed ?

MissChief said:
Paying (well, not really paying actually) for 'up to' 20 Meg and getting......20 meg!

With regard to the FTTC checker there is talks about the network uplift being the multiplication factor by which your connection should improve. if I'm already getting 20 meg and the network uplift is listed as 83.45 then i could get 16 Gig fibre if someone offered it? Shirly some miss take?
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I bet it is supposed to be listed as 8.345 lol.
 
1. Be advertise 16Mb, not 24.

2. Short burst test are inaccurate - that one is particularly poor. It's incapable of exceeding 2meg on my 10meg BE line and has quite a few talktalk banners slipping through adblock..

Run the 1GB test file for a few minutes and you should have an idea of the line speed http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html from servers setup to max virgins tests lines for the past few years.

What's the snr/attenuation from the modem?

What's your f8lure graph like? Pings/packet loss?
 
Paying for 10Mb/s and receiving mainly 9.7Mb/s - 10Mb/s. :) Although I've had very few problems in the past with Virgin's 10Mb/s. It is slow, but I've tried 50Mb/s Virgin with the SH and it didn't seem to get me anywhere. Plus I've had 20Mb/s with the original set-up and got 20Mb/s or over. :) I'm still wanting to try out/get BT LLU/ADSL or even Sky. Although in my area BT Infinity and FTTC isn't exactly planned/rolled out yet. Still waiting. :o
 
Azuse05 said:
1. Be advertise 16Mb, not 24.

2. Short burst test are inaccurate - that one is particularly poor. It's incapable of exceeding 2meg on my 10meg BE line and has quite a few talktalk banners slipping through adblock..

Run the 1GB test file for a few minutes and you should have an idea of the line speed http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html from servers setup to max virgins tests lines for the past few years.

What's the snr/attenuation from the modem?

What's your f8lure graph like? Pings/packet loss?
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It was 24 when I signed up.
The highest speed for the 1gb file I got was 1.1Mbs.
Attenuation is 41 down 11 Up
Noise Margin is 3 down and 13 Up

f8lure graph ???
 
gareth170 said:
On 100mb

download at 12.5 - 13.12MB/s

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O_O I need something like this, but Virgin is horrible (especially their new so called "equipment"). How the heck did you get that and stay so stable with that download? Upload is a little on the low side though - unless you've not had the enhancement upgrade to the upload yet.
 
BuZ said:
O_O I need something like this, but Virgin is horrible (especially their new so called "equipment"). How the heck did you get that and stay so stable with that download? Upload is a little on the low side though - unless you've not had the enhancement upgrade to the upload yet.
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my upload is 5Mb...

tbh i've never really had speed issue. i guess im just in a good area
 
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Paying for 76Mbps down, 19Mbps up.

Getting 76Mbps down (9.5MB/s), 16Mbps up (2MB/s) in real-world use. I usually don't pay much attention to speed tests, a lot of the time they're inaccurate.
 
Paying for "Up to 20Mb" and this is what I get

Code: 
Link Information
			
Uptime:	0 days, 1:41:29
DSL Type:	G.992.3 annex A
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]:	625 / 5,284
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [kB/MB]:	347.00 / 1.15
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]:	11.5 / 19.5
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]:	22.5 / 41.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]:	16.5 / 15.0
Vendor ID (Local/Remote):	TMMB / IFTN
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote):	0 / 0
[B][COLOR="Red"]Loss of Signal (Local/Remote):	1,376,238 / 0[/COLOR][/B]
Loss of Power (Local/Remote):	0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote):	0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote):	2,555,866 / 0
FEC Errors (Up/Down):	160 / 2,478
CRC Errors (Up/Down):	69 / 68
HEC Errors (Up/Down):	456 / 4,294,966,796

That's just in 6 hours...
 
pmbuzz said:
It was 24 when I signed up.
The highest speed for the 1gb file I got was 1.1Mbs.
Attenuation is 41 down 11 Up
Noise Margin is 3 down and 13 Up

f8lure graph ???
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Aye it was, but 16 more realistic as are other isps with the new rules. 3db down is the fast profile, which should be giving you speeds identical to mine on 6db. For example, from the modem:
Code: 
/usr/sbin/adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: ShowtimeRetrain Reason:	0
Channel: FAST, Upstream rate = 1300 Kbps, Downstream rate = 12200 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode:			ADSL2+
Channel:		Fast
Trellis:		U:ON /D:ON
Line Status:		No Defect
Training Status:	Showtime
		Down		Up
SNR (dB):	5.1		6.6
Attn(dB):	38.5		18.6
Pwr(dBm):	19.4		12.1
Max(Kbps):	12153		1282
Rate (Kbps):	12200		1300
			G.dmt framing
K:		87(0)		37
R:		14		0
S:		1		1
D:		128		1
			ADSL2 framing
MSGc:		60		16
B:		86		36
M:		1		1
T:		4		3
R:		14		0
S:		0.2461		0.9768
L:		3283		303
D:		128		1
			Counters
SF:		94905590		96352943
SFErr(CRCErr):	7552		13910
RS:		3580239510		0
RSCorr:		76737213		0
RSUnCorr:	219838		0

HEC:		5342		22864
OCD:		0		0
LCD:		0		0
Total Cells:	1406476042		1937541180
Data Cells:	2366588665		1212672345
Drop Cells:	0
Bit Errors:	0		2030068

ES:		4988		929
SES:		1		0
UAS:		18		0
AS(Uptime):	1541649

INP:		2.18		0.00
PER:		16.24		16.11
delay:		7.87		0.24
OR:		32.50		10.91

Bitswap:	267607		225
Total uptime:	1541649

Total time = 1 days 20 hours 14 min 42 sec
SF  = 94905590
CRC = 7552
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES  = 4988
Latest 1 day time = 20 hours 14 min 42 sec
SF  = 4486729
CRC = 307
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES  = 211
Latest 15 minutes time = 14 min 42 sec
SF  = 54337
CRC = 4
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES  = 2
Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec
SF  = 55387
CRC = 1
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES  = 1
Previous 1 day time = 24 hours 0 sec
SF  = 5318894
CRC = 384
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES  = 290
15 minutes interval [-30 min to -15 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF  = 55449
CRC = 1
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES  = 1
15 minutes interval [-45 min to -30 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF  = 55387
CRC = 2
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES  = 1
15 minutes interval [-60 min to -45 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF  = 55387
CRC = 1
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES  = 1
Showtime Drop Reason:	0
Last Retrain Reason:	0

Your upstream attenuation seems low, and snr seems high. You should be getting 1-1.1MBs.

F8lure graphs are those ping graphs you see all over the be forum. It's just a server that pings you then graphs it to spot congestion/packet-loss.
 
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PaulM said:
Paying for 76Mbps down, 19Mbps up.

Getting 76Mbps down (9.5MB/s), 16Mbps up (2MB/s) in real-world use. I usually don't pay much attention to speed tests, a lot of the time they're inaccurate.
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You're quite correct there. They can be inaccurate. Best times to test on them are at night past Midnight going on to early morning. Other than that you'll have high levels of interference. If you do it at night it means minimal interference. :)
 
paying for ADSL2, get
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For the most part i tend to actually get 2mb sec.

I dont see how infinity can really improve on that for double what i'm already paying. its quick enough 99% of the time!
 
Paying for 100Mb with Virgin Media - regularly get 12MB/s but usually hovers around 10-11MB/s.

With these speeds I'd happily take a hit to decrease my latency and increase upload speed from 10Mb to something like 50Mb.
 
This is my 100mb just now :)

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Although it does tend to vary a lot in the evenings and can go down to 30mb sometimes (4mb/s).

Very stable line though *touches wood* and is massively better than my O2 dsl line, which had continuous issues with interference and resyncs.
 
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