gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
What I want to know is what DC does with his connection. 
Finding out the real speed of your broadband connection
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Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
SmellyBridge
שдлҜچГ ☺
This is about average for my Orange 8Mb connection 
Well average when I can actually get a connection
Well average when I can actually get a connection
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
I love my work connection 
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I pay for 10mb so that's fine.
However, Virgin are teh evils at the moment throttling at 2 separate times now, instead of the usual one. Lately I'm finding that even if I haven't been torrenting my service grinds to a halt in between those times (10-4 I think, then again in the evening).
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
King Biscuit Time
Well-Known Member
I pay for 24mb and i get this
which isn't great, i guess
Hmmm. I was thinking of switching to Be Unlimited, but (-like most ISPs, tbf) it doesn't look quite as fast as their advertising gumpf promises...
Still, yours is still a whole lot faster than what I've currently got.
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
Lucky bastard
Not really, torrents are blocked and so is pr0n. So its basically a tiger without a roar
Hmmm. I was thinking of switching to Be Unlimited, but (-like most ISPs, tbf) it doesn't look quite as fast as their advertising gumpf promises...
Still, yours is still a whole lot faster than what I've currently got.
It's pretty cheap too - 18quid a month, totally uncapped (or at least i've yet to bump up against any fair use issue, and I really cane it)
Yeah, it looks okay. I currently pay the same price with another ISP for only 2mb (-and of course, in reality, that's only 'up to' 2mb...
) I've been very slack about changing ISPs, etc, but even the 'actual' speed you're getting is about five times faster that what I've got now, but for the same price.
I will... rectify this situation at ...er... some point... soon.
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
There are ways to roughly tell how much your going to get from Be* using the graph
http://www.beforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6490
and delving about in your current routers settings to see if you can find your existing DSL1 line attenuation. Below about 45db is where it starts to be worth getting for speed.
That's not its greatest selling point though, its the unlimited model they have. This induces a philosophy that they will invest to ensure bandwidth, perhaps even putting up the price, though they did drop it 6 quid last time they changed it.
Once you get above about 8Mbs your not going to be able to tell the difference between that and someone at the max of 24Mbs (which there are a lucky few).
http://www.beforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6490
and delving about in your current routers settings to see if you can find your existing DSL1 line attenuation. Below about 45db is where it starts to be worth getting for speed.
That's not its greatest selling point though, its the unlimited model they have. This induces a philosophy that they will invest to ensure bandwidth, perhaps even putting up the price, though they did drop it 6 quid last time they changed it.
Once you get above about 8Mbs your not going to be able to tell the difference between that and someone at the max of 24Mbs (which there are a lucky few).
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I get 18-19Mb to the Be router in the local exchange.
What blew my mind was that I actually managed to download things at that speed!!
I had a service pack coming in at 16-17Mb, a torrent running about 1.5Mb, and I was logged into work surfing the web.
Fuck me, I was well impressed.
What blew my mind was that I actually managed to download things at that speed!!
I had a service pack coming in at 16-17Mb, a torrent running about 1.5Mb, and I was logged into work surfing the web. Fuck me, I was well impressed.
fractionMan
Custom Title
I love this test 
fractionMan
Custom Title
I'll do it when I get home as well, but it'll be 
lighterthief
Well-Known Member
What does this mean? I'm not even sure what kind of speeds I should be getting to be honest, I fork out just over £20 to Pipex each month
ruffneck23
front left
looks likes a 1mb connection
it means you have a shite connection
What does this mean?
lighterthief
Well-Known Member
Okay, spoke to Pipex, politely pointed out crapness of service being received and have been upgraded to an 8mbps unlimited download connection for £7.99 per month, first five months free.
Should have spoken to them ages ago, this will save me almost £200 in the first year
Should have spoken to them ages ago, this will save me almost £200 in the first year
ruffneck23
front left
but wikkid ur sorted
AndrewNumLock
Well-Known Member
God that's so rubbish!
you may as well be using two tin cans attached by a string 
God that's so rubbish!
lighterthief
Well-Known Member
Thanks for all the advice on this thread folks. My download speed appears to have improved considerably but my upload speed is around 200kbs - is this typical, or should I be hassling pipex for more? I do a small amount of file sharing via Skype and so on, but don't host massive torrents or anything. I do play online games (eg Eve) when I get time.
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