Broadband speed

GPS_fan · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:53 am Post subject:

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GPS_fan · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:56 am Post subject:

I've been told that, for my postcode, 4.4Mb/s is the best I can expect from broadband down a phone line, but my Virgin cable broadband is usually 18-19Mb/s and has peaked at 19.5Mb/s - so I'm happy
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MaFt · Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 7:50 am Post subject:

GPRS with fairly low signal in middle of nowhere 3 miles from land's end!!

MaFt

philpugh · Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 12:17 pm Post subject:

Will run this on my home system over the hols - but not expecting great things. Max speed we get in our area is 512kbps down and 128kbps up. We are nearly 3 miles "as BT wire the phones" from a very small village exchange and broadband was installed after a lot of pressure from local villagers. I'm not holding my breath for any upgrade to speed yet! But to be fair to my supplier (PLUSNet) when doing downloads it does max-out the link, regularly getting 57.6 KBps according to the stats.
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wiz · Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject:

I Use Talk Talk with a Netgear wireless connection and Have never had a problem

just run the test
these are my result
4244kb/s Down 375kb/s up

the isp: is Opal Telecom???????????????

Alan aka wiz
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philpugh · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:58 pm Post subject:

More or less as I expected. Upload speed better than advertised.

I love living in the country - but poor networking is what happens here!
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wiz · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject:

wiz · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject:

Thanks MaFt

Third largest telecoms company in the UK
No 1 alternative to BT in the business telecoms marketplace
Backing of parent company, the Carphone Warehouse Group Plc
Over 2 billion minutes switched monthly
Over 100,000 business customers
£300 million turnover
Over 700 staff in 10 locations

Wow
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GPS_fan · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject:

Pretty impressive, although download speed isn't always showing as being so high.

File download speeds are also pretty good, at up to 1.3MB/s

I've also noticed on the speedtest.net results page that the distance to the server is usually showing as ~50 miles, but the distance to the same server has been ~150 miles on a number of occasions:

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MaFt · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject:

GPS_fan · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject:

GPS_fan · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:34 pm Post subject:

The highest download speed I've had, which was in the middle of the night when most people are tucked up in bed, was 2.2MB/s (17.6mb/s) - but there obviously wasn't much going on at that time and I was able to obtain the bandwidth and normally the download speed tops out at about 1.2-1.3MB/s.

Even with a 300MB file, you blink and it's downloaded (well, almost - 2-3minutes max for the download)
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