hows fast is this line speed in megs
 

is 25500kbps or 3125 k bytes per sec?

I am on ntl broadband!

Wayne
Peterborough

Re: hows fast is this line speed in megs
 

Oops misread, hat looks like around about 3MBit.

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Just done another speed test and it is saying defintely not a type my friend.

21702.1 kbps

and

2659.6 K bytes/sec

I am on 10 meg ntl broadband, my calculations put that figure at over 20 megs. Has ntl done an upgrade on something??

---------- Post added at 07:06 ---------- Previous post was at 07:02 ----------

Just done my third one and it is definitely coming out at over 21 meg for my connection. What the???

Website I am using is ZDNet UK

You guys go and try it and tell me what you get

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try the ntl speed test, Link at top of the page

2mb =
Sun, 4 Jun 2006 07:09:24 UTC

1st 512K took 2173 ms = 235.6 KB/sec, approx 1941 Kbps, 1.9 Mbps
2nd 512K took 2293 ms = 223.3 KB/sec, approx 1840 Kbps, 1.8 Mbps
3rd 512K took 2033 ms = 251.8 KB/sec, approx 2075 Kbps, 2.03 Mbps
4th 512K took 4136 ms = 123.8 KB/sec, approx 1020 Kbps, 1 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 1719 Kbps, 1.68 Mbps

Re: hows fast is this line speed in megs
 

tried it but nothing happens.

and yes my blockup popper is off, and javascript is enabled as I just just adslguide version and that worked fine.

Re: hows fast is this line speed in megs
 

Try this site
http://www.auditmypc.com/internet-speed-test.asp

Gives me 1.5 MB and 205k upload

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I think that all these speed tests sites are wrong. The tell me that I am on like 5mbit line, when im on 10mbit. I know this for a fact, for simply downloading off links on the knoppix site or the gamefiles site of blueyonder. I don't think anyone should rely on these speedtest sites as they are hardly reliable.

Re: hows fast is this line speed in megs
 

and what qualifies you to say that all of the speed tests are wrong?

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Well I think speedtests are highly overated, and all the speed tests you linked to on here give me similar results. Half of the speed tests out there most probably don't support 10mbit connections, and it also comes down to how many people are actually using the speed test at that moment.

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Last Result:
Download Speed: 1201 kbps (150.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 348 kbps (43.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 13:26:23 GMT

1st 512K took 469 ms = 1091.7 KB/sec, approx 8996 Kbps, 8.79 Mbps
2nd 512K took 516 ms = 992.2 KB/sec, approx 8176 Kbps, 7.98 Mbps
3rd 512K took 515 ms = 994.2 KB/sec, approx 8192 Kbps, 8 Mbps
4th 512K took 828 ms = 618.4 KB/sec, approx 5096 Kbps, 4.98 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 7615 Kbps, 7.44 Mbps
So which of these speed tests is right??? answer neither, they are rubbish dont waste your time with them.

Its throughput that matters if u can max out at 1200KB/s on a 10mbit line bingo.

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i got:
Sun, 04 Jun 2006 13:36:32 GMT

1st 512K took 391 ms = 1309.5 KB/sec, approx 10790 Kbps, 10.54 Mbps
2nd 512K took 671 ms = 763 KB/sec, approx 6287 Kbps, 6.14 Mbps
3rd 512K took 641 ms = 798.8 KB/sec, approx 6582 Kbps, 6.43 Mbps
4th 512K took 391 ms = 1309.5 KB/sec, approx 10790 Kbps, 10.54 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 8612 Kbps, 8.41 Mbps

from the cf speed test
pretty much normal on the 10mbit line

Re: hows fast is this line speed in megs
 

Nah my friend you just can't get over 5Mbit due to contention ;) I try the odd one of these from home and a lot of them happily support 20Mbit and upwards.

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Tue, 6 Jun 2006 19:49:28 UTC

1st 512K took 990 ms = 517.2 KB/sec, approx 4262 Kbps, 4.16 Mbps
2nd 512K took 820 ms = 624.4 KB/sec, approx 5145 Kbps, 5.02 Mbps
3rd 512K took 1050 ms = 487.6 KB/sec, approx 4018 Kbps, 3.92 Mbps
4th 512K took 1480 ms = 345.9 KB/sec, approx 2850 Kbps, 2.78 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 4069 Kbps, 3.97 Mbps

me on 10meg.nebody no wot's going on?

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Tue, 6 Jun 2006 20:16:52 UTC

1st 512K took 1843 ms = 277.8 KB/sec, approx 2289 Kbps, 2.24 Mbps
2nd 512K took 1938 ms = 264.2 KB/sec, approx 2177 Kbps, 2.13 Mbps
3rd 512K took 2047 ms = 250.1 KB/sec, approx 2061 Kbps, 2.01 Mbps
4th 512K took 2250 ms = 227.6 KB/sec, approx 1875 Kbps, 1.83 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 2101 Kbps, 2.05 Mbps

I've no idea what's going on either, and that's 10 meg as well :o: