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Ignition 22-12-2005 13:28

NTL Fastest ISP In UK
 
Scary but true!

http://www.dslreports.com/archive?c=uk

Bill C 22-12-2005 14:29

Re: NTL Fastest ISP In UK
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Ignition

Wonder if this sort of shows that the average dsl upto 8meg user gets no more than about 2 meg on average due to distance from the exchange.

There again it could be nothing of the sort :angel:.

Rone 22-12-2005 14:50

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Its certainly fast some of the time. ;)

basil 22-12-2005 14:51

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yer i max out my connection anytime of the day!

Stop It 22-12-2005 17:59

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Nice :)

Shame ive just moved, and im going from the fastest in the UK to the second (Bulldgo 8mb, hopefully soon to be ADSL2) :P

Ignition 22-12-2005 18:31

Re: NTL Fastest ISP In UK
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill C
Wonder if this sort of shows that the average dsl upto 8meg user gets no more than about 2 meg on average due to distance from the exchange.

There again it could be nothing of the sort :angel:.

That's more a case that most of the people on ADSL are stuck with BT products that max at 2Mbit. The majority of lines in the UK should do at least 4Mbit on ADSL as standard and a bit more with ADSL2 and 2+ :)

We'll see how things go when BT finally get around to releasing MaxDSL though when that'll be is a mystery to BT along with everyone else.

Caster 22-12-2005 22:42

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People are getting fast speeds to those webcaches. ;)

jtwn 22-12-2005 22:52

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Many say it slows down. Ah well, whichever end of the pipe you want to blow on I guess.

punky 22-12-2005 23:24

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I don't think this is the right way of comparing "fastest" providers. Surely, the fastest should be the lowest average difference from actual to ordered speed.

handyman 23-12-2005 00:52

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Quote:

Originally Posted by punky
I don't think this is the right way of comparing "fastest" providers. Surely, the fastest should be the lowest average difference from actual to ordered speed.

Nope this shows that fastest speeds, what your saying is completly different.

If an isp (ie my bt business 512k) hits 520k it does not make it faster than a ntl 3mb connection.

th'engineer 23-12-2005 10:48

Re: NTL Fastest ISP In UK
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Ignition

Noted this was on Average of speed test results (kbps) over the LAST 7 DAYS.:rolleyes:

So only a small sample and run by the ISPs themselves :angel:

ian@huth 23-12-2005 14:04

Re: NTL Fastest ISP In UK
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by th'engineer
Noted this was on Average of speed test results (kbps) over the LAST 7 DAYS.:rolleyes:

So only a small sample and run by the ISPs themselves :angel:

Being speedtest results the results favour NTL because of the move to 10Mb. You are getting loads of NTL top tier customers doing speed tests to see if they are getting the new speed. This will move NTL's averages up.

Many of the other ISP's speed test results are possibly done by customers who are experiencing problems such as reduced speeds and want to verify what they are actually getting. This will bring other ISP's averages down.

jtwn 23-12-2005 16:53

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I've always thought dslreports' speedtest was crap with ntl anyway but thats another story. What it does show though, is that ntl is on a country-wide scale, the fastest isp.

Bill C 23-12-2005 17:17

Re: NTL Fastest ISP In UK
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by thaiengineer
Noted this was on Average of speed test results (kbps) over the LAST 7 DAYS.:rolleyes:

So only a small sample and run by the ISPs themselves :angel:

So let me just remove my tinfoil hat.

Your saying that NTL among others are running the tests themselves ?.

Puts tinfoil hat back on and returns to reading the latest conspiracy theory books Isp's and there methods

Ignition 23-12-2005 19:13

Re: NTL Fastest ISP In UK
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by th'engineer
Noted this was on Average of speed test results (kbps) over the LAST 7 DAYS.:rolleyes:

So only a small sample and run by the ISPs themselves :angel:

Certainly not run by ISPs themselves.

NTL do not host any of these speedtest servers.

---------- Post added at 18:13 ---------- Previous post was at 18:12 ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by ian@huth
Being speedtest results the results favour NTL because of the move to 10Mb. You are getting loads of NTL top tier customers doing speed tests to see if they are getting the new speed. This will move NTL's averages up.

Many of the other ISP's speed test results are possibly done by customers who are experiencing problems such as reduced speeds and want to verify what they are actually getting. This will bring other ISP's averages down.

Generally no people do it out of curiousity.

Just have to see how things proceed over a period of time.


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