Insanely Hi Connection Speeds!

chrisjones · 17-02-2006, 10:18

- yes your reading this right! Since installing Firefox to replace IE ive been getting download speeds well in excess of the 2mb standards.. yes miracles do happen!

garethdphillips · 17-02-2006, 10:37

Are you not seeing speeds reported in Kbps rather than Kb/sec which is how IE reports speeds? (for example on a 2MB link you would expect to see around 220kb/sec in an Ie download perhaps)

There is no way firefox, or any other application is going to be able to recieve data any quicker than any other?

chrisjones · 17-02-2006, 10:49

Oh ye of little faith ... pfft

And yes thanks I do know how to read download speeds.

17-02-2006, 11:11

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Originally Posted by chrisjones

Oh ye of little faith ... pfft

And yes thanks I do know how to read download speeds.

Every now and then a UBR will have a brain fart and give out very fast speeds

garethdphillips · 17-02-2006, 11:12

Oh well, Maybe Ill try firefox!
Dont understand what your seeing!
What do you get at the www.adslguide.org.uk speed test?

punky · 17-02-2006, 11:13

Out of curiousity, what speeds have you been getting as peak and average?

17-02-2006, 11:20

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Originally Posted by garethdphillips

Oh well, Maybe Ill try FireFox!
Dont understand what your seeing!
What do you get at the www.adslguide.org.uk speed test?

FireFox will start a download before you push the go button, Something to do with the caching on the page.

garethdphillips · 17-02-2006, 11:45

Ive only been on NTL a few days (1MB) but I seem to always get about the same...

Your Connection

Direction
Actual Speed
True Speed (estimated)
Downstream
964 Kbps (120.5 KB/sec)
1041 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream
91 Kbps (11.4 KB/sec)
98 Kbps (inc. overheads)

(www.adslguide.org.uk)

Wod · 17-02-2006, 11:45

I doubt thats true, surfing the web(maybe). But i cant see firefox helping a lot,unless firefox downloads in segments like 'getright'??

17-02-2006, 12:29

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Originally Posted by Wod

I doubt thats true, surfing the web(maybe). But i cant see firefox helping a lot,unless firefox downloads in segments like 'getright'??

well there are a lot of user say its true, I dont know i am tending to use ie7 beta at the moment.

chrisjones · 17-02-2006, 12:36

Cant say I make a habbit of lying, but hey I dont easily offend

Maybe its just pure coincidence that the speeds started flicking all over the place right at the sametime I installed FireFox.... I aint complaining thats for sure.

Chrysalis · 17-02-2006, 14:39

firefox=browser browser=inaccurate way of measuring speeds. Try downloading over ftp or nntp and see what you get then.

Graham M · 17-02-2006, 14:51

Chris, what download speeds was it reporting? Also try the Speed test on the forum navbar and paste your results here.

17-02-2006, 15:01

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

firefox=browser browser=inaccurate way of measuring speeds. Try downloading over ftp or nntp and see what you get then.

NNTP and FTP = inaccurate also dependant on external sources

chrisjones · 17-02-2006, 15:23

flippin eck ppl - it was just a passing comment, wasnt meant to start up a whole debate about this that n the other.