beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
We're meant to get 8Mbs (that's what we're paying for anyway) but I don't think for one minute we're actually getting that.
Torrents - what am I doing wrong?
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Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
And again in english please?
Its in the router somewhere, you can get the DSL line statistics, but how you do that is different for every single model of router, so you just have to nose about. Somewhere in there it will say something like
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 3394 kbps 1047 kbps
Line Attenuation 47 db 15.5 db
Noise Margin 4 db 5 db
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Data Rate Down/Up 8128Kb/448Kb
Dosen't say any of the other bits.
Dosen't say any of the other bits.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest has just told me I'm getting 620Kb/s download speed 
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Doesn't matter, that is pretty encouraging because if you refer to this very useful thread,
http://www.beforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6490
you'll see that to get 8Mb down on DSL1 (the yellow dotted is average), with Be on ADSL2+ you should be getting a minimum of 13Mbs. Your phone line might be good enough to get the max 24Mb, people do.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
So if our router is saying we're getting 8Mb/s, how come all the speed test pages I try tell me I'm getting fuck all?
Is it a problem with my network or something?
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
It may be obvious stuff to the ubergeeks of U75 but the port forwarding stuff is quite complicated for people with no technical knowledge. It's strange that there isn't software to set this up easily - is there a reason it's difficult to do? The first company to create torrent software that you can just download and use will become very popular I reckon.
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
The 8Mps is between you and Virgins/BT equipment in the exchange, thats all. It has nothing to do with how well Virgin connect to the rest of the internet (peered).
If Virgin have a 1Mbs line to the internet your going to get that shared between all their customers. This is the main reason for the 8Mbs speed being quite the most misleading headline figure for a broadband connection.
If Virgin have a 1Mbs line to the internet your going to get that shared between all their customers. This is the main reason for the 8Mbs speed being quite the most misleading headline figure for a broadband connection.
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Its a tick box in the setting of the software that needs it, but due to it being a security risk, its off by default.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Ah right
Methinks I'll be looking at changing to this Be internet then, should it be a fairly painless process?
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
leaving virgin theroetically should be but I bet they play fuckers - but we aren't on a contract so cancelling the DD should work
you have the account details to set a new one up
You need to ring Virgin to get the Mac code from them to give to Be*.
Best to put an order in to Bethere 1st. Should be available but your exchange might be full etc etc.
chegrimandi
associated with adultery
can you get Be without a BT line?
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Will look into it later, cheers for the help!
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
can you get Be without a BT line?
No
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
I'm assuming that your Virgin isn't a cable connection.
Do you have Virgin Cable or Virgin DSL?
chegrimandi
associated with adultery
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
DSL (the one that comes down the phone line and has those splitter thingies on the end, yeah?)
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Good. All the above applies to DSL only.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
Have you port forwarded the port as UDP too? That helps get the swarm. Make sure you do this on your router and your personal firewall.
If that doesn't help then you're probably d/ling from a bunch of dial-ups.
There's lots of other tweaks than can be done though and make sure you only upload 60-80% capacity. Are you getting a smiley green face from your downloads?
http://torrentfreak.com/speed-up-your-torrents/
If that doesn't help then you're probably d/ling from a bunch of dial-ups.
There's lots of other tweaks than can be done though and make sure you only upload 60-80% capacity. Are you getting a smiley green face from your downloads?
http://torrentfreak.com/speed-up-your-torrents/
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Hmmm, that may explain things a tad.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
Seeds - 17(62) Number of people who have the complete file and are upload or sharing it
Peers - 8(164) Number of people who have partial file/s and are uploading it but also downloading it some of which you might have some of which you might have a 'bit' of it but not the whole thing.
Down Speed - 8.4kb/sec download speed (set this to a max of 125 kbs)
Up Speed - 32.5kb/sec upload speed (set this to around 7 to 15 kbs that way it's uploading but the contention and bandwidth useage isn't astronomical.
Ratio - 0.961 Amount downloaded v's the amount uploaded
Avail - 23.996 Number of slots or queing places avaialbe. ( i think)
Structaural
in Chatsubo
Dodgy fuckers. No ISP seems to realise that if you sell 8mb down and 1mb up then that's what the customer should get 24/7!.
If you're actually selling a 30mb line to 20 people then you're telling lies.
That page is full of it. 'using your fair share' - I'm paying for 8mb/1mb - If I want to use it 100% of the time then that's my prerogative.
I'd leave, Bees.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
i'm pretty sure that sooner or later virgin and all the others are goign to end up at the OFT and forced to change their speed advertisements and also their package names to reflect what they are providing.
tbh i'm thinking of saying sod it atm and getting a commercial connection which I can guarentee my access speeds and get better upload speeds...
tbh i'm thinking of saying sod it atm and getting a commercial connection which I can guarentee my access speeds and get better upload speeds...
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
that would require me having a connection to bt which is never going to happen they earn enough money already and i'm not preparred to give them a penny more ...
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Not using BT, a 2Mb leased line is fuck loads, monthly charge on that would be more than the yearly charge for a DSL connection assuming you could get a non BT leased line.
http://www.newnet.co.uk/leasedlines/index.php
http://www.newnet.co.uk/leasedlines/index.php
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
What's the advantage of having a static ip?
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