Yeah, "only" 6 MBit, people probably think that is slow/crap these days but to be honest, I could upgrade easily if I wanted but don't need more since I do not download a lot ... I do plenty of online gaming but that does not need so much bandwidth.
I wonder though, how come you have a ping of 0, bohusk? You must be really close to your provider.
I don't use speedtest.net anymore, I find it too unreliable, especially since I got 97meg download last week, lol
I normally use http://speedtest.bbmax.net , it seems to give me a better more normal figure.
Bahh, I'm have an 8mb a sec account and my line is supposed to be able to manage about 6mb a sec. I know, this score is a little innacurate, I cannot trust it.
3328 kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 416 kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP profile for your line is - 2500 kbps
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 2342 kbps
I'm right on the extreme fringe of my exchange area. Annoyingly, I'm actually geographically closer to another exchange - and this is one that's been selected for the BT higher speed trial. Humph :( In practice, though, this meets my needs. I do use the net for work intensively, but nothing fancy - basic browsing, e-mail and a weekly FTP upload, so I don't really need the speed.
Supposed to be 8meg but that's advertising for you—'upto' is a very useful get-out clause. I've just switch from VirginMedia due to their incredibly draconian 'traffic management' policy; their customer service rep agreed with me that it was ridiculous.
Here's a great quote from that policy:
"An example of how this works is that if a broadband Size: L (that's 10meg, £20pm) customer downloaded 1200MB of data between 4pm and 9pm, their download speed would be temporarily set to up to 2.5Mb and their upload speed to up to 128Kb for 5 hours."
Note that you'll still be paying full price despite receiving only 25% of the service for 5 hours! Hmm, can't afford to service the demand? Then just penalise the customer!
Supposed to be 8meg but that's advertising for you?'upto' is a very useful get-out clause. I've just switch from VirginMedia due to their incredibly draconian 'traffic management' policy; their customer service rep agreed with me that it was ridiculous.
Here's a great quote from that policy:
"An example of how this works is that if a broadband Size: L (that's 10meg, ?20pm) customer downloaded 1200MB of data between 4pm and 9pm, their download speed would be temporarily set to up to 2.5Mb and their upload speed to up to 128Kb for 5 hours."
Note that you'll still be paying full price despite receiving only 25% of the service for 5 hours! Hmm, can't afford to service the demand? Then just penalise the customer!
And virgin were only the other week bragging about their new 50Meg per second packages (available in some areas only) pppffftt.
Damn, lot of low scores there! I ran this at home this weekend (Can't now I'm at work) and got a score of 16.xx down and 2.4x up. Thats on Comcast cable. It's fairly expensive though...$70 a month.
One thing I did to improve my crappy 2MB broadband was to alter my connection to the local exchange. Seriously - I had to stay up till 2:00am to get the full whack - any other time was like a dial up for downloading files.
What I did was change the Internet protocol in an attempt to beat the contention....and it worked.
By default my providers routers use pppoe to connect to the exchange with an MTU of 1508 or something like that.....I should be able to work that out but I'm tired........
Anyway - I changed it to pppoa and set the MTU to 1492(needed because of the different packet/frame sizes with pppoa) and bingo - it only worked :eek:
Straight away I got the full whack regardless of time of day..........it's good working with a fully Cisco qualified network engineer..........they tell you "secret" stuff :)
"I should use simulator loosely 'cos I don't think it's quite like this on the beach with helicopters and fires and the jumping beach buggy" - paulisthebest3uk 2020.
One thing I did to improve my crappy 2MB broadband was to alter my connection to the local exchange. Seriously - I had to stay up till 2:00am to get the full whack - any other time was like a dial up for downloading files.
What I did was change the Internet protocol in an attempt to beat the contention....and it worked.
By default my providers routers use pppoe to connect to the exchange with an MTU of 1508 or something like that.....I should be able to work that out but I'm tired........
Anyway - I changed it to pppoa and set the MTU to 1492(needed because of the different packet/frame sizes with pppoa) and bingo - it only worked :eek:
Straight away I got the full whack regardless of time of day..........it's good working with a fully Cisco qualified network engineer..........they tell you "secret" stuff :)
Any chance of some sort of guide?
Mine's supposed to be a 50Mbit connection so that's pretty crap results.
Mine's supposed to be a 50Mbit connection so that's pretty crap results.
Dunno really. Your provider caught my eye - maybe try someone else??? Different providers seem to have strong and weak areas of coverage IMO. We have some really poor providers in Ireland - but even with the poor ones - I know some people who are using the worst ISP ever - yet for some reason theirs is rocket speed and has never had an outage in 2 or 3 years. They crack jokes about downloading the Internet............every one else who uses them drops them pronto.
As for the Internet Protocol know-how.......I claim very little credit:
He specifically knew I have BT/ESAT(in Ireland) 2Mb whatever package and asked me to see if it worked........he has a similar(but faster) setup at home and thought it was worth trying - so I assume he did it to his own and it worked. We live about 30 miles apart and he wanted to see if it'd work out my way.
I'm very much his junior in work.....(I am slightly older than him though......the smug f*ck)
"I should use simulator loosely 'cos I don't think it's quite like this on the beach with helicopters and fires and the jumping beach buggy" - paulisthebest3uk 2020.
The following link for the wikipedia MTU entry is essentially what he was doing for me..........the figures don't add up the same as what he explained to me in work but then again the section has an "in need of attention by an expert" disclaimer on it.......and what he suggested worked for me........
See - that's why I'm the junior - he'd pull out some proper stuff and I wikipedia it :lol:
Anyway, take a look if ya interested - then look somewhere else for the real explaination!
"I should use simulator loosely 'cos I don't think it's quite like this on the beach with helicopters and fires and the jumping beach buggy" - paulisthebest3uk 2020.
I don't find speed test sites very accurate either(at home anyway). They often tell me I have a much slower connection than the actual download speeds I experience.............Opera's transfer tab, Firefoxes transfer box, apt-gets verbose output, Filezilla etc - they all agree I'm getting about 2.5Mb's worth at best whilst the speedtest sites usually tell me it's less than 1Mb.
The same sites seem very accurate from work though.........
"I should use simulator loosely 'cos I don't think it's quite like this on the beach with helicopters and fires and the jumping beach buggy" - paulisthebest3uk 2020.
I found when I did my test that if I connected to an English test site, my speed was pants (I'm with Virgin/Telewest). However I get much better results (and closer to what I would expect) from sites like in the Netherlands.
Anyone else on the same provider, run tests from sites further away. It would seem the UK sites aren't really that good!
I wish I had my old 300Meg connection to show (it was great fun)
Unfortunately the DWDM connections we have hare have no connectivity to the internet but it's nice to simply enable an extra 1.5 Gig channel when things are a little slow.
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And that's with my flatmate downloading something via bittorrent too.
Yeah, "only" 6 MBit, people probably think that is slow/crap these days but to be honest, I could upgrade easily if I wanted but don't need more since I do not download a lot ... I do plenty of online gaming but that does not need so much bandwidth.
I wonder though, how come you have a ping of 0, bohusk? You must be really close to your provider.
I thought my speed was higher than this.
I normally use http://speedtest.bbmax.net , it seems to give me a better more normal figure.
I'm wondering too, but I did this measure at 0:30 CET, we have shared link, so that's why probably all were sleeping and bandwidth increased to me...
That, my friends, is as good as we can get. Only one provider here.
Bahh, I'm have an 8mb a sec account and my line is supposed to be able to manage about 6mb a sec. I know, this score is a little innacurate, I cannot trust it.
Although with http://speedtester.bt.com/ I get:
IP profile for your line is - 2500 kbps
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 2342 kbps
I'm right on the extreme fringe of my exchange area. Annoyingly, I'm actually geographically closer to another exchange - and this is one that's been selected for the BT higher speed trial. Humph :( In practice, though, this meets my needs. I do use the net for work intensively, but nothing fancy - basic browsing, e-mail and a weekly FTP upload, so I don't really need the speed.
Hmmm, It figures.. I'm used to it though tbh.
Supposed to be 8meg but that's advertising for you—'upto' is a very useful get-out clause. I've just switch from VirginMedia due to their incredibly draconian 'traffic management' policy; their customer service rep agreed with me that it was ridiculous.
Here's a great quote from that policy:
"An example of how this works is that if a broadband Size: L (that's 10meg, £20pm) customer downloaded 1200MB of data between 4pm and 9pm, their download speed would be temporarily set to up to 2.5Mb and their upload speed to up to 128Kb for 5 hours."
Note that you'll still be paying full price despite receiving only 25% of the service for 5 hours! Hmm, can't afford to service the demand? Then just penalise the customer!
And virgin were only the other week bragging about their new 50Meg per second packages (available in some areas only) pppffftt.
Best result I've had in ages. I normall get around 3.15Mb/s, but have been getting 0.98 for the last 3 weeks or so.
What I did was change the Internet protocol in an attempt to beat the contention....and it worked.
By default my providers routers use pppoe to connect to the exchange with an MTU of 1508 or something like that.....I should be able to work that out but I'm tired........
Anyway - I changed it to pppoa and set the MTU to 1492(needed because of the different packet/frame sizes with pppoa) and bingo - it only worked :eek:
Straight away I got the full whack regardless of time of day..........it's good working with a fully Cisco qualified network engineer..........they tell you "secret" stuff :)
Any chance of some sort of guide?
Mine's supposed to be a 50Mbit connection so that's pretty crap results.
Dunno really. Your provider caught my eye - maybe try someone else??? Different providers seem to have strong and weak areas of coverage IMO. We have some really poor providers in Ireland - but even with the poor ones - I know some people who are using the worst ISP ever - yet for some reason theirs is rocket speed and has never had an outage in 2 or 3 years. They crack jokes about downloading the Internet............every one else who uses them drops them pronto.
As for the Internet Protocol know-how.......I claim very little credit:
He specifically knew I have BT/ESAT(in Ireland) 2Mb whatever package and asked me to see if it worked........he has a similar(but faster) setup at home and thought it was worth trying - so I assume he did it to his own and it worked. We live about 30 miles apart and he wanted to see if it'd work out my way.
I'm very much his junior in work.....(I am slightly older than him though......the smug f*ck)
See - that's why I'm the junior - he'd pull out some proper stuff and I wikipedia it :lol:
Anyway, take a look if ya interested - then look somewhere else for the real explaination!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_transmission_unit
I don't think this is very accurate, I've got 2meg AOL for ?9.99pm !
The same sites seem very accurate from work though.........
That'll do for a 20mb connection...
Sad that my up is faster than most downs on here! /gloat
Anyone else on the same provider, run tests from sites further away. It would seem the UK sites aren't really that good!
Have you seen the scores for my uni computer!!!L@@K R@RE!! (see below).
Unfortunately the DWDM connections we have hare have no connectivity to the internet but it's nice to simply enable an extra 1.5 Gig channel when things are a little slow.
Thought you said that was a 'glitch' though. I bet their cable bill is higher than mine too though!