made the jump
 

finally got my 2mbit connection from central point sorted, the details were sent out earlier then the line was activated hence my router problems :erm:

but all is well, 5 out of 5 for tech support 2 call backs from them, and there CS gets 4 out of 5 reliable and helpful, now to cancel my NTL :D

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So what's the performance like?

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browsing is slightly faster then the 1mbit service with NTL, good download speed 210kb/s im just going to tweak things a little to optimize my download and browsing speeds *likes to tweak his registry :pp

just rang NTL and i told them why i want to cancel, then i got put through to the relavent department, the person in CS relations asked about the service cost speed etc from my new provider he said hes never heard of them :pp , and said 30 days notice and thats it.

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Whats the upload speed?

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its spot on 30kb/s to be honest it doesent bother me, upload is a limited commodity........

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Shock !!!!

I have just been round to a m8's from work..... He has the 2mb 20:1 business service from pipex....

Uploading at around 46kb and downloading at about 245kb :Yikes:

This is the service that I am going to get when I move. He is about a mile from the exchange and I will be nearly next door :D

Wonder what I will get ????

Cant wait - cant wait - cant wait :)

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lol, im not paying business prices......... whats the point a few extra kb/s and a huge price hike ?

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He does not care as work pay for it......

I will have to pay for my own sadly but its well worth it for me !!!

Its the relyability thats most important for me becouse of the type of work I do...

Re: made the jump
 

Whats your MTU set at?

Re: made the jump
 

1500, although im going to tweak stuff later on, slight latency on page loading on certain sites, im on the old NTL settings obviously i will have to change them.

Re: made the jump
 

yup
try 1492

You can check it using the speed guide tcp/ip analyser found in my post here (which is steadly slipping down the viewing order again)

Re: made the jump
 

How much is it?

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Its gonna work out just over £100.00 a month... Less than I was paying NTL. I dont mind paying for a good service and its money well spent IMHO.

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Hmmmm....don't think I could get Mandy to agree to it here :shrug: :D

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Why not :shrug: by the amount of posts you have you could tell her that you practicly own the site anyway ;)
And if she doe's put her foot down to hard who better to turn to :pp

It is a lot of money tho' I wonder hown much we will get charged as Jo public for 10Mb and more, when we get it :erm:

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you would be in shock as thats impossible u/l at 46kb/s & d/l at 245kb/s at the same time on a 2mb service.

I think you need to go to the Opticians i suggest Specsavers :)

(Oh!! damn i was gonna add this information to my thread to keep it from disappearing oh well i will have to dig up something else)

ADSL 2048/256
upload around 32kb/s
download around 250kb/s

Speed (kbps) Translated to: Speed (KBps)
128............................................... ..16
256............................................... ..32
384............................................... ..48
768............................................... ..96
1000.............................................. .125
1500.............................................. .187.5
2000.............................................. .250
3000.............................................. .375
7100.............................................. .887.5

And so on.................
The speeds above are the same factor for Upload as well.

A KiloByte = a KiloBit divided by 8

Example: 2000 Downstream is equal to 2000/8 (2000 divided by 8) Which gives you 250KBps maximum downstream.

A slower upstream (upload) speed can traded off for a faster downstream (download) speed with tweaking If your ADSL ISP will alow you to fiddle

I think i'll save the part about asymmetric & contension (contended) ratios & for my other thread to bump it back into view again.

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Re: made the jump
 

We probably wont, the theoretical limit for ADSL (ie unlikely to be reached) in the UK at the moment is a maximum of 8mb, you may squeeze 10mb if you live in an exchange out building!!

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i dont want to leave university halls at the end of june and go from 10mbit to crappy 1mbit :(

i get 600KB/second off streamload :) (capped at the streamload end)

i get

Tue, 9 Mar 2004 11:00:58 UTC
1st 128K took 180 ms = 728178 Bytes/sec = approx 6058 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 220 ms = 595782 Bytes/sec = approx 4957 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 180 ms = 728178 Bytes/sec = approx 6058 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 221 ms = 593086 Bytes/sec = approx 4934 kbits/sec

on the old speed test though

*just wants to rub salt in to anyone with a slower connection*

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But look to the future http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/specials/...9115735,00.htm