Telewest 4mb to 10mb

[djnerve]

Hi guys,
im onthe 4mb broadband package and phoned up today to see if i changed to the 10mb if i would have to spend a year on it, they said only 30 days. i was thinking of upgrading but will i actually get 10mb? or is it how far away from the exchange i am i have no idea how cable works.

i can max my 4mb at the moment.

ps. if needed im in WF2

Thanks

[thelem]

You will get 10mb to the Telewest "exchange", however internet conditions may prevent you getting 10mb all the way to the site you're downloading from. Give it a go, and go back in a month if you don't think its worth it.

[djnerve]

Nice one thanks mate, will give it a bash :p

---------- Post added at 18:09 ---------- Previous post was at 17:21 ----------

Hi just to let you no im now on the 10mb and a test maxed out at 7.4 with a few things running. gonna reset modem n see if it helps!

thanks

[RealDiamond]

if you mean the test here then you should be able to get over 8mb when i was on telewest the test wasnt very good but use a down loader for files and it pushed way passed the 10Mb speed.

[djnerve]

cool what did you do to test that?

[djnerve]

I ran these tests http://fuller.zen.co.uk/test/

and they started at 1300 then soon dropped to hight 700's to 800

[SnoopZ]

Try http://www.speedtest.net/ from the London server.

[djnerve]

8238 from their. going to try on my mums pc less stuff running

mum gets 9500 lol guna do a spyware check

[Andrewcrawford23]

Well according to speedtest my connection is 3mb but if i the speed test from this site http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/speed.php then i get 3.8mb. so you might not have spyware allow doesnt mean i cant get full speed but normally only on newsgroups

[SnoopZ]

You might have web filtering enabled on your software firewall. If i turn that off i get normal results on webpage speed tests.

[djnerve]

i have no firewalls active i do have a router on the network but my mums pc is getting better resuls than mine, also i have run a spyware scan. bit weird il try that other test above

**EDIT**

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:33:28 GMT

1st 512K took 516 ms = 992.2 KB/sec, approx 8176 Kbps, 7.98 Mbps
2nd 512K took 563 ms = 909.4 KB/sec, approx 7493 Kbps, 7.32 Mbps
3rd 512K took 531 ms = 964.2 KB/sec, approx 7945 Kbps, 7.76 Mbps
4th 512K took 453 ms = 1130.2 KB/sec, approx 9313 Kbps, 9.09 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 8232 Kbps, 8.04 Mbps

[janipewter]

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/

I got:

Download Speed: 9777 kbps (1222.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 357 kbps (44.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

[RealDiamond]

Originally Posted by djnerve

cool what did you do to test that?

<<<<<<<i am a mac user i just downloaded files from Apple web sites and version tracker.com or gamespy.com HD movies they maxed out my connection no problem.

nope those speed tests are out buy about 10% also speedtest.net said my speed to America was faster than London if its right i should set up a proxy to the USA.

edit= O the browser does effect the speed result.

[skynet777]

Originally Posted by djnerve

Hi guys,
im onthe 4mb broadband package and phoned up today to see if i changed to the 10mb if i would have to spend a year on it, they said only 30 days. i was thinking of upgrading but will i actually get 10mb? or is it how far away from the exchange i am i have no idea how cable works.

i can max my 4mb at the moment.

ps. if needed im in WF2

Thanks

The only way i can get my 4mb is if i use DAP.

[Graham M]

Originally Posted by RealDiamond

nope those speed tests are out buy about 10% also speedtest.net said my speed to America was faster than London if its right i should set up a proxy to the USA.

Hehe it's probably because more UK people are using the Speedtest than anybody else as they seems to be a strange breed that are obsessed by the speed of their Internet Connection... Did somebody say Penis Extension? My 4MBit suits me fine