Many BY customers getting shafted this badly?

[andymt]

I have telewest 1mb and it comes out as 870kbps

Is that average or slow?
Lol
help

[humey]

Well 1meg is 1024kilobits/sec (Kb/s) so in windows task panes you should see 128Kilobytes/sec (KB/s) when you download a file if the source is infact fast enough.

I have read threads here and some peeps get bad speeds, i already made 2 posts and one explains i always got my max + little extra speed on 512k (1/2meg) then 1meg then 2meg then 3meg now 4meg, again if the source can sent fast enough.

Im mainly here to see about new upgrades and i know the 10meg test is real as of the BY .pdf, but i say a staff member on here or other forum say they testing 14meg.

I get little info on the phone, even after i say i may go elsewhere as Bt online doing 8meg cheap, but all i got was 256 is gonna be 512 in may, seem thats all the 150 number staff know.

[MalcUK2005]

870kbps is a little slow but would probably still come in exceptable margins, the speed on cable varys so if you ran the same test again you might find it will go up or down the very maximum you will get is 1mb.

[Saltank]

Here is my speed test URL for my 1mbit service:

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/sp...237e3189183248

It is pretty good, it is constant and I don't think I have ever really noticed congestion at peak times.