Chalk and Cheese - Sky and Virgin Broadband - Page 4

thenry · 08-01-2013, 21:21

look for loads of seeds

AdamD · 08-01-2013, 21:29

6.6mb/sec.

thenry · 08-01-2013, 21:35

6.6MB - 52.8Mb

what was your 80/20 post all about?

Qtx · 09-01-2013, 16:37

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Originally Posted by AdamD

6.6mb/sec.

Yeah that is 52.8 as thenry said. My 4.8 megabytes/s was around the 38 megabits/s the speed test showed. Only a small negligible increase over the flash based test actually, except I can guarantee that speed every time on a torrent compared to the speed tests which fluctuate a fair bit.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by thenry

what was your 80/20 post all about?

Is there some upload jealousy there?

AdamD · 09-01-2013, 16:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by thenry

6.6MB - 52.8Mb

what was your 80/20 post all about?

What confused you about it?
I was saying I'm connected at 80mb down and 20mb up
I can only get 55-60mb down.

thenry · 09-01-2013, 16:56

line distance from cab? do your speeds match those estimated on BTs site?

qasdfdsaq · 09-01-2013, 18:58

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Originally Posted by AdamD

Can't get the FTTC test to work, but the ADSL one shows:

58 down, 12 up and 20ms ping.

Which test did you do exactly? The ADSL and FTTC tests are one and the same (hence the button is marked "ADSL & FTTC diagnostics"

AdamD · 10-01-2013, 12:42

Speeds seem to dip during prime time, at 12:35 (now) it's a bit faster

I hit 70mbps on the download from the cowes server just now

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Forgot to add, BT's speed check comes up with an estimated speed of:
67.6Mb download
20.0Mb upload

So I guess it's not TOO far off, the max I can download at with bittorrent is around the 6-6.3MB/sec mark

Chad · 16-01-2013, 21:48

Well it's now day 2 of having SKY broadband and so far, it's not too bad.

When it was installed yesterday I had a 3mb connection. This has gone up to 4mb today.

What has really surprised me so far is the overall performance. I'm current downloading a movie to my SKY+ box via on demand. My wife is on her ipad and I'm currently posting this via my PC. Neither the wife or I are experiencing any kind of lag or buffering as we go from site to site. I'm not suggesting we had this problem with Virgin, I just didn't expect SKY broadband to perform so well.

The upload speeds at the moment however are woeful.

muppetman11 · 16-01-2013, 21:59

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Originally Posted by Chad

Well it's now day 2 of having SKY broadband and so far, it's not too bad.

When it was installed yesterday I had a 3mb connection. This has gone up to 4mb today.

What has really surprised me so far is the overall performance. I'm current downloading a movie to my SKY+ box via on demand. My wife is on her ipad and I'm currently posting this via my PC. Neither the wife or I are experiencing any kind of lag or buffering as we go from site to site. I'm not suggesting we had this problem with Virgin, I just didn't expect SKY broadband to perform so well.

The upload speeds at the moment however are woeful.

That's because on ADSL2+ with Sky the max upload is around 1.3mb I think , post your router stats up I'm sure some on here will be able to tell you what download speed you can expect.

Qtx · 16-01-2013, 22:15

The on demand should be playable within seconds as it will download as you watch, even at the speeds you get.

How long until they can upgrade it to fibre?

Chad · 16-01-2013, 22:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Qtx

The on demand should be playable within seconds as it will download as you watch, even at the speeds you get.

How long until they can upgrade it to fibre?

I should be able to get fibre in March / April.

At current speeds the on demand stuff isn't taking too long to download. If I select something, by the time I check my planner it's ready to start viewing.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by muppetman11

That's because on ADSL2+ with Sky the max upload is around 1.3mb I think , post your router stats up I'm sure some on here will be able to tell you what download speed you can expect.

I'll post some stats tomorrow. Would do it just now however I'm about to play Mario Kart online

qasdfdsaq · 17-01-2013, 01:13

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

That's because on ADSL2+ with Sky the max upload is around 1.3mb I think , post your router stats up I'm sure some on here will be able to tell you what download speed you can expect.

ADSL2+ in general will give an upload speed around 1/10th to 1/20th of download. Given his download is only 3-4Mb he won't get more than ~0.2-0.5Mbps

pabscars · 17-01-2013, 08:33

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

ADSL2+ in general will give an upload speed around 1/10th to 1/20th of download. Given his download is only 3-4Mb he won't get more than ~0.2-0.5Mbps

You may well be correct qas, however when I was on Sky's ADSL2+, I was receiving 5.9 to 6.1 Mbps Down and 0.9 to 1 Mbps Up.

Edit.

I forgot to add Sky can be bit stingy with the upload speed, I do recall the upload sitting at 0.4 ish for a while, untill I rang them up to complain and they changed it to 1 Mbps

Chrysalis · 17-01-2013, 11:59

on ukonline I had 1mbit upload alongside 5-6mbit download.

they even uncapped it in my final weeks on the service (unofficially of course) and I got about 1.2mbit.