Newcastle under lyme ... ( just across the road for people not from the area
)
absolutely abysmal - 10mb service literally running slower than my old dial up modem.
actually considered connecting through gprs instead..
have tried proxy dance and its not really helping -
just tested newsgroups: ( not a heavy user of them personally but i still have an account for the odd bits i want ) .. very very slow to start and slowly worked its way to 3mb or so
speed test from this site: ( these are nearly double i was getting from the default proxy )
Mon, 9 Oct 2006 20:49:34 UTC
1st 512K took 5359 ms = 95.5 KB/sec, approx 787 Kbps, 0.77 Mbps
2nd 512K took 5437 ms = 94.2 KB/sec, approx 776 Kbps, 0.76 Mbps
3rd 512K took 5407 ms = 94.7 KB/sec, approx 780 Kbps, 0.76 Mbps
4th 512K took 4734 ms = 108.2 KB/sec, approx 892 Kbps, 0.87 Mbps
Overall Average Speed = approx 809 Kbps, 0.79 Mbps
Router rebooted, ntl250 rebooted, wife kicked and hair pulled out
( just kidding about the hair lol )
i havent done a long enough ping test to see about packet loss; but did a quick test on pcpitstop.com and was getting some.
sky TV works perfectly well though lol ( i know .. please dont comment on sky .. tis just a joke
)
Did anyone get or have any information as to why stoke and surrounding area is so extremely poor - if i wasnt 312 miles from the bt exchange i'd be on adsl now. Seems my choice is 'pathetically slow with ntl' or 'pathetic 1mb adsl' although i guess the latter would consistantly be slow and not get my hopes up.
Welcome back 1991 - good old 36k baud external modems woot
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Curious ...
10pm on the nose and what happens?
this,,,
Mon, 9 Oct 2006 21:02:14 UTC
1st 512K took 828 ms = 618.4 KB/sec, approx 5096 Kbps, 4.98 Mbps
2nd 512K took 906 ms = 565.1 KB/sec, approx 4656 Kbps, 4.55 Mbps
3rd 512K took 891 ms = 574.6 KB/sec, approx 4735 Kbps, 4.62 Mbps
4th 512K took 1640 ms = 312.2 KB/sec, approx 2573 Kbps, 2.51 Mbps
Overall Average Speed = approx 4265 Kbps, 4.17 Mbps
Now i did stop recording at the same time with sky+ .. coincidence?
lmao