Very Slow download speed in Stevenage

[karmaimages]

Originally Posted by homealone

Hi karmaimages

I used to live at RAF Henlow, which has nothing to do with the thread, but you will know what I mean thanks for the feedback

Thanks

It is a small world indeed lol i'm sure if you shop in letchworth i've prob served you at one point depending on the shops you visit :P

[sstainer]

in poole dorset on the 4meg BB tier i get 717kbps Down 376kbps Up However ushally get a 3334kbps the upload is about right speed

[twinkle]

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:01:13 UTC

1st 512K took 453 ms = 1130.2 KB/sec, approx 9313 Kbps, 9.09 Mbps
2nd 512K took 437 ms = 1171.6 KB/sec, approx 9654 Kbps, 9.43 Mbps
3rd 512K took 485 ms = 1055.7 KB/sec, approx 8699 Kbps, 8.5 Mbps
4th 512K took 547 ms = 936 KB/sec, approx 7713 Kbps, 7.53 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 8845 Kbps, 8.64 Mbps


after some shocking service for 4 days .got speeds of the first day the internet was invented.with a phone line .got an ntl /virgin letter must be 2 weeks ago .will be getting 20 meg etc.etc.blah. am paying 17 49 per month .should i complain .did dreamgirls retail in 47 mins .sometimes a bit speedier

[karmaimages]

[twinkle]

how do i copy the pic from speed test .never seem to capture it .i use this also .i always pick the uk .will try paris

[sstainer]

when i want to capture screen i press print screen key n paste the image into publisher or paint ? etc

[moogles]

still slow

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:10:08 UTC

1st 512K took 12953 ms = 39.5 KB/sec, approx 325 Kbps, 0.32 Mbps
2nd 512K took 12953 ms = 39.5 KB/sec, approx 325 Kbps, 0.32 Mbps
3rd 512K took 14390 ms = 35.6 KB/sec, approx 293 Kbps, 0.29 Mbps
4th 512K took 11657 ms = 43.9 KB/sec, approx 362 Kbps, 0.35 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 326 Kbps, 0.32 Mbps

[jpa]

Normally at this time in the morning i get the full 10mb that i should get , but not this morning



i will have to phone them up

---------- Post added at 09:34 ---------- Previous post was at 08:52 ----------

Before i rung broadband help , I thought i would disconnect the modem for about ten minutes and it is now acceptable



so if it goes down again later i will be straight onto virgin media.

[kendo1]

well you guys are lucky i think. my internet has been slow for couple of weeks now. supposed to be the 4mb service.take a look.

[moogles]

Test 1


Test 2

Seems speed is back.

[jorgehernan]

Hi all, (especially to jpa as I also live in west wickham) first post so i thought i put my 2p worth for this one.
Speedtest.net has been awful for me lately, very slow speeds at all times of day so I used www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk and it was giving me test results of 9000kbps + to which of course my conclusion being speedtest sites are very unreliable.
If you want to max out your connections best to use a download manager for http downloads and usenet for everything else.

[savvychels]

I'm not putting much faith in Speedtest.net. It tells me completely different things from almost any other tester recently. When I use it I barely get 1mb (I have 10mb BB) most evenings from the London Server (100 miles away), but I get 7 from dublin! But if I use the speedtest on here most of the times it's running close to proper.

When I was on the phone with CS the other day about something else (bill query) they actually asked me about my BB and I mentioned the funny results they recommended this site and said it's pretty accurate http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/. It's shown no slow speeds since I've been using that.

So I've been comparing speedtest.net, the one on this site, and that, and the one on this site and the bbmax site tend to measure my connection at close to full speed, while most of the time speedtest.net gives me less than half.

---------- Post added at 15:27 ---------- Previous post was at 15:26 ----------

Snap! Hey jorgehernan we must have been posting at the same time to recommend the same site

[jorgehernan]

No probs savvy must be on same wavelengths!!!

[moogles]

http://myspeed.visualware.com/uk/ is always accurate, and I always get the same results. It doesn't differ like speedtest or others. Since its java based I trust it more. bbmax one says the download speed you get when the file finishes, my speed is 3930kbps but a speed dip made it say 3457kbps so.. same for speedtest.

[internetguy]

Im in stevenage but on 2meg. Been downloading/uploading for a few days and no problems