Nerd thread: Testing your broadband speed

[Guest TK-421]

Down: 9892 Kb/s

Up: 475 kb/s

 

Just upgraded.

[cochcaer]

5650/371 with Enta.

[Fugitive]

7648 kbps/448 kbps

 

With BT.

[Nick Leeson]

vvvrrrroooooom!

[She Knows It]

vvvrrrroooooom!

 

How much do you pay for your broadband? My download speed is half of yours, but my upload speed is better.

[Nick Leeson]

I dunno it's all packaged with the TV and the phone. This thing is wrong anyway as my download should be around 25000 and upload around 1250. guess it depends on how many hips and hops I have to go through for this thing.

[RedKnight]

A hamster in a wheel still goes faster than mine.

[George Costanza]

my speeds quite slow at the moment due to line work but i'm soon to go to adsl2 which will be 24meg download and 1 meg upload

[Nick Leeson]

I think they've been testing the 50Mb lines round here because I few times i've been downloading films at night lately and my bandwidth meter has shot up to over 6MB a second.

 

Full XviDs in under 2 minutes is beautiful.

[hamstrung]

A hamster in a wheel still goes faster than mine.

 

I feel your pain, brother.

[discuit]

What speeds do you get in West Derby?

[RedinSweden]

I have changed to 10 Mbit and holy christ it feels fast. Downloads a full film in fucking no time. Incredible.

[RedinSweden]

Pay for 10 Mbit down and 1 Mbit up

 

 

Good value for money. Pleased with that.

[RedinSweden]

Upgraded for an extra 3 quid a month I got

 

 

[Herp McDerp]

[Sweeney287]

Upgraded for an extra 3 quid a month I got

 

 

 

That is just crazy download speeds.

Edited October 22, 2008 by Sweeney287

[RedinSweden]

Can a moderator move this thread to the TNF, its rightful home.

[Uncle_Meat]

Upgraded for an extra 3 quid a month I got

 

 

 

 

[RJ Fan club]

Upgraded for an extra 3 quid a month I got

 

 

 

I'm in awe, stuck on my 8mb conncection and really getting about 6mb.

[RedinSweden]

I'm in awe, stuck on my 8mb conncection and really getting about 6mb.

 

I pay for 24mb/s so I am pissed off about those 279kb/s they have conned me out of...

[Carradona]

Mine is fucking shite here. 1200 students on the same network.

[hamstrung]

I'm in awe, stuck on my 8mb conncection and really getting about 6mb.

 

Count yourself lucky. I am a reasonable distance from the exchange so get 2mb at most.

[Uncle_Meat]

Poor line speeds? This might help..

 

BT I-Plate (iPlate)

 

More for noisy lines than just high attenuation lines, but it can make a difference.

[melons]

I hate BT with a fuckin passion, thieving robbing bastards!!

 

anyway, my result was 200kbps, i assume thats like a tenth of the speed im paying for at 2mg??

[Uncle_Meat]

200kbps? Yep, that's quite bad, and a cats whisker away from being disconnected by the exchange if that is your actual line rate.

 

Try this one.

BT Speedtester

 

This measures between you and the exchange, and can sometimes give a more accurate result for actual throughput and also gives your actual line speed too. If you have a high line speed but low throughput, that indicates congestion, either just general network congestion or a busy exchange, or maybe just a shit ISP.

 

If your actual line speed is low, as you can imagine, that is a different issue altogether where one of those i-plates may help or just by fiddling around with your extension leads and so on can help.

 

The problem with some speedtesters such as the above is if there is any network congestion between you and the speedtest server, your results will be artificially low.