NTL Generous or what?

My 600 broadband appeared to be in a turbo mode, I am downloading stuff at 80Kps on a continuous basis, has anybody experienced this ?

[Mr.Moony]

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[Sociable]

Originally Posted by a4pacific

My 600 broadband appeared to be in a turbo mode, I am downloading stuff at 80Kps on a continuous basis, has anybody experienced this ?

Ahhhhhh so that pic in your sig is the new modem eh?

[Retrovertigo]

i get it regularly. sits there downloading at 75+kps. i'm not complaining

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by a4pacific

My 600 broadband appeared to be in a turbo mode, I am downloading stuff at 80Kps on a continuous basis, has anybody experienced this ?

where do you get this figure from , either you are on a slow 1mb service by mistake or summat is telling you porkies

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

where do you get this figure from , either you are on a slow 1mb service by mistake or summat is telling you porkies

80k linch him / kill him - he must be the one that is slowing down the network........

What modem is it a4pacific ???

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by stuartbe

80k linch him / kill him - he must be the one that is slowing down the network........

What modem is it a4pacific ???

false speed report methinks

stu have you checked your acgas thread ???????????

[deerokus]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

false speed report methinks

stu have you checked your acgas thread ???????????

that's what i get roughly too. If not more.


I've seen it be briefly at 200.

I'm on 600k

[Stuartbe]

Great - I get 65-70k max on a 1mb connection........

[Seb]

70's average for me, downloaded a few things before at 110 though! This is my worry about upgrading to 1Mbps, is it goin to be all that much faster?

[Graham M]

I have NTL 600k thru Set Top Box->Router->Network Card

I get an average speed of 60-70k tho i often see speeds of above 80 and even above 100 and yes, these speeds are real.

The theory is, is that with NTL you don't get a definite QoS (Quality of Service) like you do with ISDN and Leased Lines so youre Modem will grab all the bandwidth it can muster, be this below the rated limit of 600kilobits or whatever or above.

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by Seb

70's average for me, downloaded a few thinks before at 110 though! This is my worry about upgrading to 1Mbps, is it goin to be all that much faster?

In my experience - NO !

[MikeyB]

Originally Posted by Zeph

I have NTL 600k thru Set Top Box->Router->Network Card

I get an average speed of 60-70k tho i often see speeds of above 80 and even above 100 and yes, these speeds are real.

Do you see these high speeds when you start downloading a file, i.e. just after you've chones where to save it?
This will happen then as IE has alread started d/l the file into the cache, but only starts working out the speed etc when you click OK on the save to box.

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by Zeph

I have NTL 600k thru Set Top Box->Router->Network Card

I get an average speed of 60-70k tho i often see speeds of above 80 and even above 100 and yes, these speeds are real.

The theory is, is that with NTL you don't get a definite QoS (Quality of Service) like you do with ISDN and Leased Lines so youre Modem will grab all the bandwidth it can muster, be this below the rated limit of 600kilobits or whatever or above.

you may get bursts of speed that fast but there is no way it is going to be that fast really , how about dl'ing summat from say somewhere like microsoft and timing it to see what you are really getting , on the 1mb connection i have , i sometimes see 130-140 k / s , but it aint really that fast

[Seb]

Originally Posted by MikeyB

Do you see these high speeds when you start downloading a file, i.e. just after you've chones where to save it?
This will happen then as IE has alread started d/l the file into the cache, but only starts working out the speed etc when you click OK on the save to box.

Nah mines consistant throughout a download, what ever size the file is!