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Originally Posted by parakeet
Hello,
I'm currently on the 1Mbps package, but am considering upping to 3/10Mbps.
Before that, could anyone advise what the service is like in Cardiff? Download/upload speeds, performance... ?
Thanks.
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You might get lucky or, you might end up having a nightmare and wasting days of your time trying to sort things out. Personally, if I was on 1Mb at present then, unless I'm desperate for extra speed, I would stay on 1Mb for another month or two at least too see if things get better.
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Originally Posted by manfredojr
10mb is a joke full stop.
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It's only a joke for the people having problems. If you've read through enough posts on this board then you'll know that some/plenty of people are getting high speeds and not having problems.
I've just run another test and, lo and behold, I'm getting the max speed expected at present. I have a Samsung STB and the 5Mb package (I'm refusing to call my package 10Mb anymore!!). A couple of minutes after I did the test below, I did another one and got 4Mb. On average over the last 24 hours I've been getting approx 3.4Mb. Whilst not exactly much of an increase on the steady 3Mb I had, ntl clearly say that speeds are now up to and not constant as before. Basically I'm getting exactly what ntl say I should be getting. Unfortunately any one reasonable length download still comes along at very erratic speeds. Still, It would surprise at present if things went back to 1.5Mb later today!!
Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:54:05 UTC
1st 512K took 765 ms = 669.3 KB/sec, approx 5087 Kbps,
5 Mbps
2nd 512K took 546 ms = 937.7 KB/sec, approx 7127 Kbps,
7 Mbps
3rd 512K took 1265 ms = 404.7 KB/sec, approx 3076 Kbps,
3 Mbps
4th 512K took 734 ms = 697.5 KB/sec, approx 5301 Kbps,
5.2 Mbps
Overall Average Speed = approx 5148 Kbps,
5.05 Mbps