Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

What speed is your line sync'd at in the router config.

I'm sync'd at 39,999 kbps Down and 10,000kbps Up but never see full speed on speedtest's, there always similar to yours

Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

I guess this is what you are talking about?

DownStream Connection Speed 40000
UpStream Connection Speed 9996

First time I have had Openreach Fibre so its all new to me. I guess everything is how it should be then.

Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

you wont get full speed due to overheads, I expect on the 40meg service 36-37 down is reasonable and 9 up.

If you using a HG modem, unlocking it and disabling QoS will net you roughly 10% extra throughput (not sync) on uploads.

Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

Didn't expect the overhead to be that big, but it makes sense.

10% is quite significant enough to give it a try, thanks :)

Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

doesnt really matter.

Even if FTTC was a 20mbit service it still be far superior to VM. Consistency of performance is king.

Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

I would choose an openreach based FTTC at 20mbit over a 120mbit virgin broadband if given the choice. So we feel the same about quality and consistency of performance :tu:

Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

:Yes:

Worth a check

Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

It's odd, but I'm connected at 80/20, but I only seem to get upwards of 50-55mb now on downloads

Not sure why..


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Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

Can't get the FTTC test to work, but the ADSL one shows:

58 down, 12 up and 20ms ping.

Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/

just for kicks

Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

They're not. The overheads are around 2-3%

Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

Some more testing in order then. Local measurements show faster speeds than the speed tests so have been trying different apps/methods to see if they all measure the same way or vary.

They all seem to show faster speeds than the speed test sites so far.

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Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

the flash based speedtest sites especially speedtest.net can under report upload speeds because they use low send buffer values which are not enough for FTTC upload speeds unless you close to london.

in my ftp client eg. the default send buffer is way too low to maximise my upload I had to bump it up and windows only auto tunes the downstream buffer.

Re: Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband
 

Hmm, is there a super fast torrent I can try? I assume a standard linux one would do.