How fast is your Internet connection?

[crazylegs]

2 mb from NTL/Virgin media....My down load is 240-260kbps

 

[Alf]

a fine 56k
the sweet life

 

[floppybootstomp]

Up to 8Mbps with Zen.

Test from post # 4 showed 5.6Mbps down, 0.4Mbps up.

 

[psd99]

who the heck has got more than 20mbs?

 

[V_R]

who the heck has got more than 20mbs?

If your on Be Unlimited and live very near the exchange with a low attenuation then its possible.

 

[Abarbarian]

Well I was on 512kb with AOL but they gave us all a free upgrade to 2Mb . Just done the speedtest at thinkbroadband and my results are ,

Date 25/03/07 01:27:25 Speed Down 449.39 Kbps ( 0.4 Mbps ) Speed Up 233.18 Kbps ( 0.2 Mbps )






The above are with Boink crunching .

Date 25/03/07 01:23:09 Speed Down 455.29 Kbps ( 0.4 Mbps ) Speed Up 232.91 Kbps ( 0.2 Mbps )


The above are with Boink stopped .

Looks like crunching actualy speeds up your pc's uploading

If I'm downloading or uploading then I get figures of 55kb/s and 24kb/s so I'm a bit confused as to what my speed is . Surfing seems pretty fast to me but I've never used a pc with a realy fast conection . My downloading speeds seem slow to me as my friend in town with the same deal from AOL downloads at 100 t0 150m kb/s . The BT engineer told me I was lucky to get broadband as my line is about 3 miles from the exchange and has to go through 3 junction boxes . So I'm reasonably happy

 

[Alf]

we have tried to get high speed in our area, except were too far 'out there' to get it. In time i suppose- but i dont plan on living here that long

 

[V_R]

Well I was on 512kb with AOL but they gave us all a free upgrade to 2Mb . Just done the speedtest at thinkbroadband and my results are
Date 25/03/07 01:27:25 Speed Down 449.39 Kbps ( 0.4 Mbps ) Speed Up 233.18 Kbps ( 0.2 Mbps )

Thats 512 connection speeds mate, either they didn't upgrade you or they are throttling your connection....and yes they do...what package are you supposed to be on?

I moved from AOL nearly a year ago now and never looked back...Entanet all the way!

 

[crazylegs]

A 2mb connection should give you 240kbps down...
A 4mb connection will be 480 kbps down...

 

[V_R]

A 2mb connection should give you 240kbps down...
A 4mb connection will be 480 kbps down...

In download speeds that is but a speedtest does it slightly differently.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

http://www.speedguide.net/conversion.php

 

[Abarbarian]

Ta fer the clarification V_R , looks like mines just about spot on then , shame I can't get the 2Mb though .

 

[V_R]

How long you got on the contract? maybe its time for a MAC code?

 

[Abarbarian]

How long you got on the contract? maybe its time for a MAC code?

No contract , pay monthly and its only £9.99 . From what I can gather from talking to various BT engineers its the distance from the exchange thats the cause of the slow speed .

 

[V_R]

No contract , pay monthly and its only £9.99 . From what I can gather from talking to various BT engineers its the distance from the exchange thats the cause of the slow speed .

Ah, have you gota router? Can you find out what your attenuation is?

 

[Abarbarian]

Ah, have you gota router? Can you find out what your attenuation is?

Got a Linskys BEFSR41 router . Haven't a clue what attenuation is . Will see what i can find out later today .

 

[V_R]

Check your router stats page, from when you log into the router it should be there along with your sync speeds and noise margin.

Post them up and i'll have a look.

 

[Adywebb]

No contract , pay monthly and its only £9.99 . From what I can gather from talking to various BT engineers its the distance from the exchange thats the cause of the slow speed .

Even so, from your speed test it still looks to me like your on a 512kb connection rather than 2MB...

Put your phone number in the 'see how fast you can go' box on the BT Broadband site and it should give you an indication of what to expect on your line

 

[muckshifter]

I would treat ANY speed test as a guide and most with irrelevance.

For Telephone Number *********** on Exchange SOUTHPORT

Our initial test on your phone line indicates that you should be able to have BT Total Broadband with a likely maximum speed of up to 4.5Mb (Megabits per second).

No bad really.

hmmm, nice.

ah, still good though.

 

[zorrofox]

This is the slow time of day for me but it's fast enough for my needs. On a good day I hit 6Mb.

 

[V_R]

I would treat ANY speed test as a guide and most with irrelevance.

Thats true there are a lot of variables to concider, how busy is the site, contention etc. But speedtest is one of the better ones.

Two of the best ways to check your speeds are the links below....

http://speedtester.bt.com/ - BT's own seedtester, also tells you your IP profile which can be helpful for diagnosing slow speeds.

and

http://www.btopenworld.com/speedtest - Good for testing 'real world' download speeds. You get a choice of three test files of different sizes.