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chrisy9 · 19-10-2005, 23:07

Hi, im was reading on the ntl site about upload speed of the 1mb service, cant mind what it was but, mine is nothing compared to it, im uploading at 12kb/s MAX, download speeds are about 120kbps MAX.
i know theres something wrong, but can anyone help me out by telling me how to fix this.
i dont want to fone ntl because i hate these indian people who dont have a clue (no offence to them, but they are clueless and hard to understand, and they dont understand me)
ANY help would be great.

apoligies if in wrong section or anything.

danielf · 19-10-2005, 23:15

chrisy9

Are you talking about kilobytes or bits? If you are talking bytes, those numbers look about right: 1 byte = 8 bit => 120 kbytes = 960 kbits, 12 kbytes = 96 kbits

The 1 mb service is 1 megabit down and 128 kbit up (iirc), so those numbers aren't far off.

Hom3r · 19-10-2005, 23:17

have you tried any speed tests
http://www.asdlguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp
http://www.abeltronica.com/velocimet...=uk&newlang=uk

jrhnewark · 19-10-2005, 23:19

The 1Mbps (megabits per second) service has a 100kbps (kilobits per second) upstream.

This means were talking around a maximum of 128KB/s (kilobytes per second) down and 12KB/s up.

If you're using KB/s, your figures are absolutely fine.

(And if I might offer a little constructive criticism, for a moment, assuming you are using KB/s, the Indians do need to know what units you're working in to have a clue what you're on about.

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chrisy9 · 19-10-2005, 23:23

done a speed test.
Results

Your Connection

Direction

Actual Speed

True Speed (estimated)

Downstream965 Kbps (120.6 KB/sec)1042 Kbps (inc. overheads)Upstream87 Kbps (10.9 KB/sec)93 Kbps (inc. overheads)

jrhnewark · 19-10-2005, 23:25

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Originally Posted by chrisy9

Downstream965 Kbps (120.6 KB/sec)1042 Kbps (inc. overheads)Upstream87 Kbps (10.9 KB/sec)93 Kbps (inc. overheads)

Absolutely fine.

chrisy9 · 19-10-2005, 23:29

its bloody well slow at uploading under 1mb and above

danielf · 19-10-2005, 23:29

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Originally Posted by jrhnewark

Absolutely fine.

Yup! Note that the report says

Quote:

Downstream965 Kbps (120.6 KB/sec)

Kbps is used for bits, and KB (capital B) for kilobytes. The numbers you mention in your first post are KB, not Kb.

BloodyL · 19-10-2005, 23:31

Indian people live in the UK too you know.

The whole indian thing makes me giggle, before the media whipped up a firestorm about the whole affair did people post messages saying "I'm not going to call tech support as I'll get through to swansea and those welshies don't have a clue, not to mention I can't understand their accent."? ... I think not!

Now, on to your other point, I take it you've been reading something like this page?

http://www.home.ntl.com/page/broadbandquestions

If that is so then the site is confusing, when it mentions the 1Mb service as 1024Kbps down and 256Kbps up, that is actually Kilobits not kilobytes, heck even the 1mb tag is actually 1 megabit not megabyte.

With this in mind your speeds look pretty average to me, maybe a touch lower that I remember it was when I was on 1Mb.

Hopefully someone who is actually associated with ntl will come along and clear things up properly.

Go on, give them a call, even if they are indian they won't bite you if you can't understand them, simply ask them to speak more slowly and clearly.

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lol, I should learn to type quicker, there wasn't any replies here when I started!

jrhnewark · 19-10-2005, 23:32

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Originally Posted by chrisy9

its bloody well slow at uploading under 1mb and above

Yes, that'll be something to do with the upstream speed being only a tenth of the downstream speed!

It's slow for everyone, we all know the upstream speed of 100kbps is stupidly slow.

danielf · 19-10-2005, 23:33

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Originally Posted by BloodyL

lol, I should learn to type quicker, there wasn't any replies here when I started!

You're not Indian are you (trying to type slowly and clearly)

BloodyL · 19-10-2005, 23:38

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Originally Posted by danielf

You're not Indian are you (trying to type slowly and clearly)

Rofl, nope, it just took me a while to find a page on ntl's site that actually quoted the connection levels!

chrisy9 · 19-10-2005, 23:39

Looks like NTL have confuddled me

thanks much.
is there anyway of tweaking the ntl modem to upload a slight bit faster??
ive got a NTL 250 box and is blue in color

jrhnewark · 19-10-2005, 23:42

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Originally Posted by chrisy9

Looks like NTL have confuddled me

thanks much.
is there anyway of tweaking the ntl modem to upload a slight bit faster??
ive got a NTL 250 box and is blue in color

Nope, you get what you're given - there's no way of making uploads and downloads happen any faster. Just make sure you don't use up all of your upstream bandwidth or your downloads will come to a halt.

Nice that you have a 250, though.

chrisy9 · 19-10-2005, 23:50

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Originally Posted by jrhnewark

Nice that you have a 250, though.

lol. yeah my big bro was real mature for a 19yr old and picked up my keyboard smashed it off the desk and picked up his full scalding hot cup of tea over my pc

while the side of it was open, Funked my ntl 200 box, 3days later ntl was out on rescue with a nice little 250 box

im downloading on bit torrent just now
upload : 7KB/s Download 45 KB/s

Luckily my pc and keyboard survives