Broadband Speed Test...

The Northern Monkey

Whats yours?!
http://www.speedtest.net/
After being pissed off with our 1.2meg at home, I decided to do the test at uni...



I want buisness broadband

TheRevOlutionary

Our business broadband says 3.42mbs, still not great! But our 100mbs line is shared across the company!

Anonymous

how shocking is that!! i might have to look at chaning provider but from what i can gather, the place i live at is woeful with anyone. the lads tend to use mobile broadband and thier iphones as they are faster than landline based interweb action!

supersonic

My AOL is 3.59 mbps.

I remember when I started uni in 1996, on the dial up modems, about 7kbps lol.

jrduquemin

My Verizon Business connection maxed out at 10.1Mbps download, 960kbps upload :-)

Da Mighty Chicken

Nice thing is, is that BT claim the max I can get due to the distance I live from the exchange is approx 3.5Mb/s down but BE use their own equipment

nicklouse

and i pay for a 2MB link!

-liam-

Is it the case that if using a wireless router, I would have to wire the connection to my laptop to get a true speed?

Da Mighty Chicken

-Liam- wrote:

Is it the case that if using a wireless router, I would have to wire the connection to my laptop to get a true speed?

Assuming that you have a recent-ish wireless set up and have a good strong signal then it should give you a fairly accurate rate as the wireless will be able to handle more than your broadband can do anyway.

Maybe do 2 or 3 runs to get an idea if all is steady

supersonic

I have a data streem indicator from the wireless modem - it can provide 54mbps, way in excess of what is piped in.

The Northern Monkey

at the house...


on the basic package with bethere... upto 8mps but we're miles away from the local exchange

supersonic

Yeah, the advertised speeds are usually if you live in the exchange, have solid gold cables and are called Sir Branson.

The Northern Monkey

luckily when i get back home up north we have access to virgin cable broadband

-liam-

Just complained to talktalk

I've wired the connection and getting the same speed. Also used talktalks own tester and gets identical speeds.

I should be getting "up to" 8 mbs and I live 400 yards from the exchange lol !

The Northern Monkey

thats pretty damn bad

Found out why our connection was slow last week, my mate got caught on torrents so they capped out net while they looked into it! :shock:
Luckily he was downloading free widgets and audio books so he's not gonna be bent over

Lapierre t 400

nicklouse

just tested again.

PC wired.


Lap top wireless

stubs

Download is okay but up load is pants

djb1971

average

Andy B

xgeek

redvee

Cortesy of Sir Richards 10mb bit of wire.

deadliest

http://www.speedtest.net/result/459622440.png

Not bad really

schmako

666, the number of the beast!!!

MeddlE

Virgin 10mb

-liam-

-Liam- wrote:

Just complained to talktalk

I've wired the connection and getting the same speed. Also used talktalks own tester and gets identical speeds.

I should be getting "up to" 8 mbs and I live 400 yards from the exchange lol !

All sorted.

They have changed my profile.

From Up 0.88/Down 0.18

To...


If anyone else is with talktalk and they think they are having probs don't bother with their telephone help lines just go straight to the customer services forum.

http://www.talktalkmembers.com/forums/f ... ay.php?f=9

TheRevOlutionary

xgeek wrote:

Wow! :shock:

Retested my work connection about 10times & have got results from 1-6, mostly between 1 and 2 which is poor by Business standards surely? Best was this one;

KnightofCydonia

absolutely dogsh*t awful but thankfully moving in 2-3 weeks.

jpstar

seems alright...... *waits for internet to crash*

Chaz.Harding

Not too bad 8)

Chaz.Harding

Why has it fluctuated that much??

Damn internet God's...