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Old 23-03-2008, 08:48   #20
Largerme
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Re: 20mb users...what is your speed right now

I usually find 'Speedtest.net' to be fairly acurate, anyway I posted this in the newsgroups and got a not very satisfying reply:-

Last few weeks have been nightmarish, 20mb speed is slower than my
previous 4mb.

Mornings at 8.30 seems ok, tested at :- http://nettest.virginm.net/ 2.46 mb excellent speed, would download 1gig test iso in around 16 mins.
one thirty in the afternoon and the same testfiles max out at 359kbps

speedtest.net also reports 3223kb/sec and gets steadily slower as the day
goes on, trying to surf in the evenings is absolutely chronic.

4pm nettest iso test file 126kb/sec

Ping to Virginmedia and Tracert to BBC as follows:-
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Phil>ping www.virginmedia.com
Pinging www.virginmedia.com [212.250.162.12] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.250.162.12: bytes=32 time=48ms TTL=121
Reply from 212.250.162.12: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=121
Reply from 212.250.162.12: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=121
Reply from 212.250.162.12: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=121
Ping statistics for 212.250.162.12:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 42ms, Maximum = 48ms, Average = 44ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Phil>

Tracing route to www.bbc.com [212.58.253.70]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 67 ms 87 ms 67 ms 10.87.80.1
2 75 ms * 79 ms oldh-t2cam1-a-v128.inet.ntl.com [80.5.165.29]
3 68 ms 58 ms 58 ms oldh-dpim1-5-coc-1-gw.service.virginmedia.net [62.252.192.181]
4 * 55 ms 61 ms man-bb-a-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.175.1]
5 54 ms * 60 ms gfd-bb-b-so-200-0.inet.ntl.com [62.252.192.94]
6 70 ms 81 ms 69 ms redb-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.78]
7 64 ms 80 ms 77 ms 212.58.238.189
8 61 ms 75 ms 62 ms 212.58.238.133
9 57 ms 94 ms 79 ms te12-1.hsw0.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.222]
10 58 ms 57 ms 79 ms www1.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.253.70]

Trace complete.
C:\Documents and Settings\Phil>

is there something amiss?

Thanks Phil.



Quote:
[Hi Phil

There is work scheduled on your UBR for 1/4/08 which should resolve this
issue, [B]this date is subject to change[/B
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