NTL Fastest ISP In UK

Ignition · 22-12-2005, 13:28

Scary but true!

http://www.dslreports.com/archive?c=uk

22-12-2005, 14:29

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Originally Posted by Ignition

Scary but true!

http://www.dslreports.com/archive?c=uk

Wonder if this sort of shows that the average dsl upto 8meg user gets no more than about 2 meg on average due to distance from the exchange.

There again it could be nothing of the sort

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Rone · 22-12-2005, 14:50

Its certainly fast some of the time.

basil · 22-12-2005, 14:51

yer i max out my connection anytime of the day!

Stop It · 22-12-2005, 17:59

Nice

Shame ive just moved, and im going from the fastest in the UK to the second (Bulldgo 8mb, hopefully soon to be ADSL2) :P

Ignition · 22-12-2005, 18:31

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Originally Posted by Bill C

Wonder if this sort of shows that the average dsl upto 8meg user gets no more than about 2 meg on average due to distance from the exchange.

There again it could be nothing of the sort

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That's more a case that most of the people on ADSL are stuck with BT products that max at 2Mbit. The majority of lines in the UK should do at least 4Mbit on ADSL as standard and a bit more with ADSL2 and 2+

We'll see how things go when BT finally get around to releasing MaxDSL though when that'll be is a mystery to BT along with everyone else.

Caster · 22-12-2005, 22:42

People are getting fast speeds to those webcaches.

jtwn · 22-12-2005, 22:52

Many say it slows down. Ah well, whichever end of the pipe you want to blow on I guess.

punky · 22-12-2005, 23:24

I don't think this is the right way of comparing "fastest" providers. Surely, the fastest should be the lowest average difference from actual to ordered speed.

handyman · 23-12-2005, 00:52

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Originally Posted by punky

I don't think this is the right way of comparing "fastest" providers. Surely, the fastest should be the lowest average difference from actual to ordered speed.

Nope this shows that fastest speeds, what your saying is completly different.

If an isp (ie my bt business 512k) hits 520k it does not make it faster than a ntl 3mb connection.

th'engineer · 23-12-2005, 10:48

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Originally Posted by Ignition

Scary but true!

http://www.dslreports.com/archive?c=uk

Noted this was on Average of speed test results (kbps) over the LAST 7 DAYS.

So only a small sample and run by the ISPs themselves

ian@huth · 23-12-2005, 14:04

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Originally Posted by th'engineer

Noted this was on Average of speed test results (kbps) over the LAST 7 DAYS.

So only a small sample and run by the ISPs themselves

Being speedtest results the results favour NTL because of the move to 10Mb. You are getting loads of NTL top tier customers doing speed tests to see if they are getting the new speed. This will move NTL's averages up.

Many of the other ISP's speed test results are possibly done by customers who are experiencing problems such as reduced speeds and want to verify what they are actually getting. This will bring other ISP's averages down.

jtwn · 23-12-2005, 16:53

I've always thought dslreports' speedtest was crap with ntl anyway but thats another story. What it does show though, is that ntl is on a country-wide scale, the fastest isp.

23-12-2005, 17:17

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Originally Posted by thaiengineer

Noted this was on Average of speed test results (kbps) over the LAST 7 DAYS.

So only a small sample and run by the ISPs themselves

So let me just remove my tinfoil hat.

Your saying that NTL among others are running the tests themselves ?.

Puts tinfoil hat back on and returns to reading the latest conspiracy theory books Isp's and there methods

Ignition · 23-12-2005, 19:13

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Originally Posted by th'engineer

Noted this was on Average of speed test results (kbps) over the LAST 7 DAYS.

So only a small sample and run by the ISPs themselves

Certainly not run by ISPs themselves.

NTL do not host any of these speedtest servers.

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Originally Posted by ian@huth

Being speedtest results the results favour NTL because of the move to 10Mb. You are getting loads of NTL top tier customers doing speed tests to see if they are getting the new speed. This will move NTL's averages up.

Many of the other ISP's speed test results are possibly done by customers who are experiencing problems such as reduced speeds and want to verify what they are actually getting. This will bring other ISP's averages down.

Generally no people do it out of curiousity.

Just have to see how things proceed over a period of time.