Speed

kingabs · 05-03-2008, 14:38

Just wanted to share my latest connection speed using firefox download accelerator.

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Although speed during the day is around 800kbs - 1.88mbs till 4pm then 8mbs till midnight.
i am now stuck even more should i stick with my sky connection or my virgin connection.

crazymaniac · 05-03-2008, 15:43

Lol, alright dude.

How far is your contract? If it's past 1 month then you can't stop the service until a full year.

EDIT: Although, i think sky would be a better choice. Then again, Virgin might fix all their problems and become the best.

OR

Go the other way, and fail Britain for years.

kingabs · 05-03-2008, 21:31

broadband went live on 22nd of feb and waiting for sky activation on 10th march which i get an 8 day cool off period.

**Hugh** · 05-03-2008, 21:36

kingabs, are you on 20Mb/s?

If you are, that speed is fine (2.25MB/s x 8 = 18Mb/s)

kingabs · 05-03-2008, 21:45

yup 20mbs is what i am on!
ps

what power levels are acceptable for my connection?

crazymaniac · 06-03-2008, 15:05

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Originally Posted by kingabs

broadband went live on 22nd of feb and waiting for sky activation on 10th march which i get an 8 day cool off period.

That's all good then

techyguy4 · 07-03-2008, 10:44

kingabs, are you still unhappy with this speed?
2.33 MB/sec = 2.33X8= 18.64Mb/sec
It means you are getting almost 19 meg of download speed.

chamelion · 07-03-2008, 10:56

confused as to what you're complaining about...

07-03-2008, 11:18

I am thinking the same shows you have a nice 18-19Mb connection

kingabs · 07-03-2008, 11:27

I think i may stick with Virgin. At leaset my phone line wont get knocked down by a tree like last year and then no service through my BT line for a week.

07-03-2008, 11:29

You have made a good choice either way you could get VOIP as a back up

xpod · 07-03-2008, 11:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingabs

Just wanted to share my latest connection speed using firefox download accelerator.

Although speed during the day is around 800kbs - 1.88mbs till 4pm then 8mbs till midnight.
i am now stuck even more should i stick with my sky connection or my virgin connection.

Tough decisions in life eh......you must really be pulling your hair out

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My latest shot of DownThem All seemed kinda confused but it was bouncing between 15Mb to a hell of a lot more than it should have been.

Either way though even 8Mb....never mind 18Mb is more than enough in reality.

Unless their trying download teh whole interweb course

After the first 4/5 months of extremely sub-standard 20Mb we`re now more than happy with the 18Mb+ we`ve had this last 4 months now.

Between myself and the kids with all their pc`s,(ahem)playstations,psp`s,DS`s,Wii`s and god know what other bandwidth consuming gadgets they all have i`m sure
we`ll find a use for all those excess Megabits yet.

Mabey i`ll just become one of them PC gamers now

Get me one of those alternative OS`s and try hammer that bandwidth we have far too much off,for any home user/s!!......

...........>easy boys easy now!!<

EDIT:

Quote:

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:02:38 GMT

Test 1: 1024K took 119 ms = 8605 KB/sec, approx 70905 Kbps, 69.24 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 150 ms = 6826.7 KB/sec, approx 56252 Kbps, 54.93 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 111 ms = 9225.2 KB/sec, approx 76016 Kbps, 74.23 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 633 ms = 3235.4 KB/sec, approx 26660 Kbps, 26.04 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 57458 Kbps, 56.11 Mbps

Thats it.......wheres my 20Mb gone???
Theres got to be a call to complaints in there somewhere eh :-)

Spare Megabits going @xpod........PM for great deals

kingabs · 07-03-2008, 15:07

oooo you lucky guy a 50mbs connection when did your area go live with the 50mbs or did you opt to be on a trial for the service?

Druchii · 07-03-2008, 20:33

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Originally Posted by kingabs

oooo you lucky guy a 50mbs connection when did your area go live with the 50mbs or did you opt to be on a trial for the service?

HEhe, i think he's trying to show you that his connection is more than fast enough, yet at the same time his speedtests are rather inaccurate

xpod · 11-03-2008, 10:49

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oooo you lucky guy a 50mbs connection when did your area go live with the 50mbs or did you opt to be on a trial for the service?

Lucky???.....I have to live doon in London now-a-days,whats lucky aboot that?

Just joking,i am indeed a lucky guy but it`s nothing whatsoever to do with any excess Megabits.More to do with all the excess hormones flying around,if the wife & daughters are all to be believed

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ue, 11 Mar 2008 09:58:04 GMT

Test 1: 1024K took 121 ms = 8462.8 KB/sec, approx 69733 Kbps, 68.1 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 113 ms = 9061.9 KB/sec, approx 74670 Kbps, 72.92 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 111 ms = 9225.2 KB/sec, approx 76016 Kbps, 74.23 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 394 ms = 5198 KB/sec, approx 42832 Kbps, 41.83 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 65813 Kbps, 64.27 Mbps

These results appear to be quite fast - this page could possibly be in your browser cache

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HEhe, i think he's trying to show you that his connection is more than fast enough, yet at the same time his speedtests are rather inaccurate

I just thought we were getting toooo close to Kent

Of course,the Excess Megabits are indeed a big whopper but then the speedtests are rather inaccurate at the best of times anyway.
The test here though has never been too far off any download tests these last few months but i`d still never rely on it alone,or any other speedtest come to that.

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Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:17:08 GMT

Test 1: 1024K took 445 ms = 2301.1 KB/sec, approx 18961 Kbps, 18.52 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 385 ms = 2659.7 KB/sec, approx 21916 Kbps, 21.4 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 434 ms = 2359.4 KB/sec, approx 19441 Kbps, 18.99 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 964 ms = 2124.5 KB/sec, approx 17506 Kbps, 17.1 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 19456 Kbps, 19 Mbps