broadband speed test

[baldyshinehead]

Saw this on the gadget show tonight. worth doing and the results are interesting.
I get no where near what i pay for :mad:

http://gadgetshow.five.tv/jsp/speed_test.htm

[Kylie]

lol my sh1te connection can't even find the website!

[madastoast]

I'm getting ripped off too! :mad:

[Bosun]

intersesting... will try again later :)

[baldyshinehead]

Somewhere on there they have a list of numbers to complain too.

[cherryB]

How do you find out what you should be getting. I'm with BT

[Rhythm Addict]

Ran the test meself and supposedly getting nowhere near what I pay for but tested on another site and although not what I pay for it's a lot closer.
The problem with these test sites is that once they are popular they can't support the number of connections and so they give inaccurate results. Due to that if they genuinely are campaigning for better speeds that kind of result will help.

[John Hopkins]

I get about 1mb which is good enough...I'm with BT...John

[johnr]

3 and a half meg download, and half a meg upload, im with virgin, and supposedly we have 10 meg!!! tossers!!!

[peter-dog]

mines right if fact its a bit faster

[Louis]

I think that if you look in the small print with a lot of providers you will find that the Connection speed is governed by distance from the Exchange as the performance falls off down the copper wire the further you are away......You can be paying for a high speed connection and actually be connected as a high speed connection ..but this means nothing if you are above a certain distance from the exchange.......Unfortunately thats how it all works...

[peter-dog]

I think that if you look in the small print with a lot of providers you will find that the Connection speed is governed by distance from the Exchange as the performance falls off down the copper wire the further you are away......You can be paying for a high speed connection and actually be connected as a high speed connection ..but this means nothing if you are above a certain distance from the exchange.......Unfortunately thats how it all works...

thats correct but not if your on cable you should be getting what it says so 2meg means 2meg

[johnr]

now its early morning and quiet, im getting 9.4 meg download, and still half a meg upload.

[pyro]

A better speed test (http://www.kbps.co.uk/)


but you need to be a bit geeky... :D




Run any test several times to get a good average, running it once dont mean diddly

[Mikesmad]

I've used this one for a year.........

............easy to use and featured on the gadget show too.


http://www.speedtest.net/

[The Beer Monsters]

The other thing to bear in mind is that when you're doing the speed test you should be doing nothing else that's internet based (browsing/downloading emails etc)

[250chop]

well im with virgin and am payin for 2 meg but im gettin almost 4 so im not gonna complain

[greg]

5.6mbs down
.38mbs up

very similar on both tests.
paying for 8mb

[Nightentity]

3 and a half meg download, and half a meg upload, im with virgin, and supposedly we have 10 meg!!! tossers!!!


I'm with Virgin/Ntl too, pay for 2 meg and get 1970, could be better, but not by much :D

[bunbag]

not got a clue

[Kylie]

teehee at work - 9meg download, 8 meg upload, do love being on JANET

Home - what am i paying for? I am basic package with Virgin, I thought that was 2meg now, and i'm getting less than 1meg download and 128kb upload

[Louis]

now its early morning and quiet, im getting 9.4 meg download, and still half a meg upload.

The Upload Speed is fixed.....

[The Beer Monsters]

The Upload Speed is fixed.....Indeed. The A of ADSL is Asynchronous. The upload and download speeds are different. Your download speed should be close to the 'whatever' Meg speed your ISP states (subject to distance from exchange and all that). You upload speed is going to be one of 256Kb or 512Kb.

If you want to upload at the same speed as you download, you need to buy SDSL - which will cost you a fortune (between £150 - £300 per month last time I checked).

[knuckle]

I live a fair way from the telephone exchange and WAS paying my ISP for 8mb connection UNTIL I sussed out BT were only giving me 2mb. That's fine and I got a refund (3 months credit from ISP) :D

So now I am only paying for what I am getting.

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc198/knuckle_ed/Gadget_Show_Test.jpg :D

[Mikesmad]

Must be millyins o' folk using it now.........

903 kb/s


...........yet Speedtest still showing...

2955 kb/s.


Ho hum, I can see the ISP's rubbin their hands at this campaign!

[Shifty]

Download speed's shown as nearly what it should be.

Have to say though, I agree with what was written above about the speed of connection to the site slowing with use and therefore the test being inaccurate.

[Rhythm Addict]

There's also the issue that on the faster cable download speeds the small amounts of data the web tests use isn't going to max out your data allowance. A better way is to simultaneously download 4 large files and then add the download speeds together to get a truer picture.

Then you can also add in things like where the server doing the testing is. If it's in the land of the big mac and your on Virgin it'll probably misread because they've recently been having problems with their connection to the states - probably not paid the carrier enough!

It's a whole can of worms and full of "reasons" that the ISP's can give to explain the readings. At least the Advertsiing Standards Authority are already doing something about it and I think there's a Commons Committee looking at it too. The Gadget Show are only really using it to gain popularity and joined the campaign late!

[InSanCen]

Check your small print folks... it's "up to x Mb/s"

Always has been.

7.75Mb/s here, paying for... well, a fiver a month to piggyback my neighbours connection...

[Rhythm Addict]

If Kylie is going to shout about being on JANET then see if anyone can beat being on SuperJANET. :p :p :p

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