Originally Posted by wirecutter

Some days (6 in 85) the net is running at 21meg on that checker but most of the time its slug mail I have tried using the Y-B-Y and the larger files "Timed Out" the same goes for the two game files down load. Its not only the slowness of the net its the high error rate using the engineering site to down load a 10meg zoneplate image the number of errors make it unusable, the same is true if I thy to have net radio or video, this time last year all this was possible.
Just tested on www.speedtest.bbmax and got the following:
Download Speed 339 kbps (42.4 KB/sec)
Upload Speed 350 kbps (43.8 KB/sec)
Link to result: http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/res...3868&v=4644289
this is not 10meg any more or even the 1meg of five years ago