Poll: What speed connection do you use?

[Freefaller]

At home between 4-8mbs. At work over 8mbs (leased line).

 

[Rilot]

so what do you do if it's 4mb for example , there are 2 I could select

Happy now?

 

[Violent-J]

I'll do a test on my 100mbps co located server, one sec

 

[Bitchplz]

Currently get 2mb from NTL i think.

But i think we got a free upgrade to 4mb or something........

 

[Violent-J]

Hmm speedtest.net is being OcUK'd methinks, the London server and Amsterdam are really slow, my server is 100mbps up/down so it's not me. I get about 5mbps to London

My fastest was to Karlsruhe in Germany.

 

[4T5]

10Meg NTL

I am in heaven sat here in my front room stroking my new card boasting about my connection speeds. and




Grow up ! NEVER

 

[ringpull]

1.1mb on bt here, supposed to have had ADSL max with TalkTalk since June, but they haven't even sent us anything yet.

TalkTalk cannot provide ADSL Max until they have unbundled (LLU) an exchange. Currently they only have 3 or so unbundled exchanges being used with a few of their customers who are on the LLU Trial. This trial hasn't finished yet and only begun in mid-July. I'd expect to see TalkTalk beginning to unbundle some of their 1,100 pending exchanges in 3-4 months.

Their TV adverts are deceiving.

 

[ElRazur]

That shows your actual speed being something like 4mb/s not 24
its in bits not bytes per second

Connections are quoted in bits, so you have a 4000kbit connection according to that...or 4mbits

Thanks, sounds like they are cheating me....I was told the connection speed is 24 meg...hold on one sec. This is what im on and what i pay for every month. https://www.bethere.co.uk/homebroadband.do

Do you think the results tally with what im sold? Sorry to sound noobish, i am rubbish at things like this.

 

[TriedandTested]

10meg BY.

 

[Violent-J]

Thanks, sounds like they are cheating me....I was told the connection speed is 24 meg...hold on one sec. This is what im on and what i pay for every month. https://www.bethere.co.uk/homebroadband.do

Do you think the results tally with what im sold? Sorry to sound noobish, i am rubbish at things like this.

Don't worry mate, all of the speedtest.net servers are currently lagging is all.

 

[oweneades]

Work connection:



I would assume its roughly a 2mb connection.

 

[Maz]

10mbps Blueyonder connection

 

[Cuchulain]

NDO (Namesco) ADSL Max, less than 100 yards from the exchange

Before 3pm, with multiple threads in a download manager I can scrape 7 meg, after 3pm I get around 1 meg speeds regardless of how many threads I use. The support is useless, the service is useless and they screw you if you want to leave within in the first 12 months.

 

[Brizzles]

Mean't to be 2Mb , why is it so slow ?





Mark

 

[Cybermyk]

I did the Bratislava server for a laff, 10Mb NTHell

 

[andyp]

10mb Blueyonder Cable.

Depending on what I'm downloading, and where from, I regularly see 1.1-1.2mb/s.

 

[Duke]

Blueyonder 10mbit

 

[j00ni]

Mean't to be 2Mb , why is it so slow ?

That's not a bad speed for a 2Mbps service. Remember you are never going to get the full speed on a speedtest due to overheads, background programs using bandwidth, heavy local traffic, heavy traffic on the remote server (it's being OcUKed ), distance from exchange, quality of line, distance between router and master socket, etc etc etc

Thanks, sounds like they are cheating me....I was told the connection speed is 24 meg...hold on one sec. This is what im on and what i pay for every month. https://www.bethere.co.uk/homebroadband.do

Do you think the results tally with what im sold? Sorry to sound noobish, i am rubbish at things like this.

Further to the above, as with all BB providers it is an 'Up To' 24Mbps service, the provider is in no way obliged to provide the full speed if it is not possible in your case. Though if you are getting that sort of speed maximum all the time it may be worth seeing if you can get a cheaper 8Mbps service as it should provide a comparable speed