All i can say is....wow..!!

xr4x4 · Post by **xr4x4** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:05 am

just look at this speed..!

check out the ping..!!!

im connected at 8mbps great huh..!

Post by **agw_01** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:07 am

Steaming

Mr_James · Post by **Mr_James** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:15 am

Think it's just that server being slow....

Chin. · Post by **Chin.** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:17 am

Virgin media sux.

xr4x4 · Post by **xr4x4** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:25 am

Mr_James wrote:Think it's just that server being slow....

er...no.

been like that for ages, weeks.

was ok at first then dropped off. then it would be fixed by rebooting the router. so i changed the router, i think that worked breifly.

what makes it worse is the speed test starts out at 200 odd k.

used to get 21ms ping and 6100 odd speed, i even complained to demon about that... why am i connecting at 8100mbps and not getting the speeds i should be...they couldnt help.

xr4x4 · Post by **xr4x4** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:26 am

Mr_James wrote:Think it's just that server being slow....

er...no.

been like that for ages, weeks.

was ok at first then dropped off. then it would be fixed by rebooting the router. so i changed the router, i think that worked breifly.

what makes it worse is the speed test starts out at 200 odd k.

used to get 21ms ping and 6100 odd speed, i even complained to demon about that... why am i connecting at 8100mbps and not getting the speeds i should be...they couldnt help.

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:59 am

I agree. This is supposedly 4 meg:

Virgin Media, (was Telewest/Blueyonder) so on cable modem. We're meant to be getting a free upgrade to 8 or 10 (can't remember) which should mean I will start actually getting 4 or 5?

I also often wonder what the point of all this mega fast broadband is when a lot of servers don't seem to support that speed anyway! :idea:

stefaclese · Post by **stefaclese** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:07 am

I remember doing one of them at uni where my room is hooked up to a proxy, the upload was around 5 times the download speed

I think the download was around 100kbps or something pathetic like that, which really doesn't surprise me after the ridiculous times it takes to buffer anything (4.5 hours to buffer Layercake!!!).

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:38 am

it will probably be the line quality changing throughout the day...

That said, my usuall fast connection felt slow earlier about 4pm, felt like something bad happened, yo know, a disturbance in the force...

stefaclese · Post by **stefaclese** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:56 am

Scott wrote:it will probably be the line quality changing throughout the day...

That said, my usuall fast connection felt slow earlier about 4pm, felt like something bad happened, yo know, a disturbance in the force...

I sensed it too young padowan.

darwin · Post by **darwin** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:03 am

Normally I would gloat with speeds like these , but as I'm giving Vermin Media the heave-ho it'll be a while before I get speeds like these on ADSL (esp as nowhere in Northern Ireland has ADSL2+ yet)

munky · Post by **munky** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:29 am

pffff... when I was using my mobile as a modem I was getting awesome speeds such as 340kbps down and 21kbps up!

Now thats fast! 45 second page loads FTW!

Now I borrow my neighbours wireless and get a steady 2mb down and 400kbps up. woo

Null_Byte · Post by **Null_Byte** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:36 am

I get 300 down, 150 up and a 250 - 700 ping on a 512k line. So I'm just going to keep quiet.

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:41 am

I suspect a lot of ISPs are slow.. I've just been upgraded to 8mb on BT and actually was getting 6.1mb on sat. Wasn't going to moan about that tho, I'm used to 2mb.

That's crazy slow tho Paul.. I'd be moaning like hell about that, if not leaving them as they're not providing the service they claim to.

will2c · Post by **will2c** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:30 am

My transfer rate is a joke, Im with Toucan and on Speedtest.net it never goes above 2Mb, I live about 500 Meters from the 8Mb exchange and when I used to be a Free-online Business (Now Plus Net) customer I was getting around 7.8Mb on Speedtest.net

So its time to move Broadband again, Moving to Demon Business as I want the faster upload speeds

gib786 · Post by **gib786** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:34 am

thats my result, using the so called "16mb" sky service, which is a giant pile of home aloner just like the router they supplied. i dont pay for it though so i suppose i cant complain

Post by **agw_01** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:46 am

You'll only really get the full 8mbit (on ADSL) if you're living in the exchange.

Even people who live 200 meters from the exchange won't see 800Kb/s download speeds.

This *upto 8mb* stuff is balls. I'm on an *upto 24mb* ADSL2 connection here. It's actually connected at 4mbit, ha!

walshy.walsh · Post by **walshy.walsh** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:48 am

i get around 2.5meg on an 8meg connection

yes thats with you andy!

-Alex- · Post by **-Alex-** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:51 am

I have been bitching for agents about the BT speeds which even recently have felt very bad (when last I checked was less than a quarter of the 8mb one would hope for as absolute max -- now looking a little better. Upload speed not great though.

As above, all of this "up to" stuff is simply misleading and mis-selling the product as you would need to be based at the exhange to see these speeds (with a following wind).

xr4x4 · Post by **xr4x4** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:14 pm

Sheaf wrote:That's crazy slow tho Paul.. I'd be moaning like hell about that, if not leaving them as they're not providing the service they claim to.

exactly...!

if it was running anywhere near the speed it sould be, then i wouldnt have a problem. this is just unusable...even web pages take an age to download, youtube?...forget it.

from this site http://speedtest.broadbandgenie.co.uk/
it says im 185 meters from the exchange

syzsounds · Post by **syzsounds** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:45 pm

Thats mine and im supposed to be on virgins 20 mg , Thats the best its been in weeks.

EggBeard · Post by **EggBeard** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:07 pm

A load of ISP's are starting to throttle connection speeds based on usage. They are targeting users of peer to peer software and other non-interactive traffic, and mainly in peak times.

I know that Virgin are one of those providers as i now have to run my torrents through the night to get a reasonable speed. In fact most ISP's are now filtering traffic th way.

Phoenix3dfx225 · Post by **Phoenix3dfx225** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:38 pm

use Bethere.co.uk on a 24mbit connection at around 22-23mbits in reality. On big websites like nvidia or bbc can see a substained download rate of about 2.2mb/s.

However theres certainly still more websites out there that simply dont delivery at more than what seems 50kb/s

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:54 pm

xr4x4 wrote: from this site http://speedtest.broadbandgenie.co.uk/
it says im 185 meters from the exchange

Huh, that's quite interesting... it says on there I out line should support a max of 5.9mbps and that's pretty much bang on what we've now got.

I'm 1.5km from the exchange....

It also says O2 online are doing 16mb for £15pm

darwin · Post by **darwin** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:11 pm

syzsounds wrote:Thats mine and im supposed to be on virgins 20 mg , Thats the best its been in weeks.

Follow this page to the letter

http://www.virginmedia.com/help/20mb-br ... sation.php

syzsounds · Post by **syzsounds** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:40 pm

darwin wrote:
syzsounds wrote:Thats mine and im supposed to be on virgins 20 mg , Thats the best its been in weeks.
Follow this page to the letter

http://www.virginmedia.com/help/20mb-br ... sation.php

M8 i've done that a hundred times and had the engineers out more times than i can remember ... everything goes swimmingly for about a week and then it drops again ...

ChrisD · Post by **ChrisD** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:21 pm

Virgin Media seems to be ok for me ??

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:22 pm

What package are you on ChrisD?

ChrisD · Post by **ChrisD** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:26 pm

Up to 4 i presume deffo not the 20

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:33 pm

And is that their cable network (used to be Telewest/Blueyonder) or their ADSL?

ChrisD · Post by **ChrisD** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:08 pm

Cable (Used to be NTL)