[xserve]

My Broadband speed is dreadful since upgrade.

Dowloading a 55 meg file from apple took ages. Average download speed was 88k sec.

looking at the network activity, if was all over the place 750k, then 3.5k then 30k, then 0k then 4k then 450k then 200k then3k then 12k the 16k get the picture.

whaen all of that was averaged out it was 88k not good on a supposed up to 10 meg line. Surely the up to 10 meg caveat must wear thin when it is not as fast as the 1 meg line I previously had.

Brother on telewest 10meg service got 800k sec average with his BB.

I get reasonable results on the speed checker but a 1 meg file is not big enough to accuratly test a line that suould be 10 meg.

I think that 5meg should be the minimum acceptable speed for the "up to" service, after all what is the point in paying more for less.

Stu