NTL Generous or what?

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by Seb

Nah mines consistant throughout a download, what ever size the file is!

and what is telling you this , windows download box or summat else

[Seb]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

you may get bursts of speed that fast but there is no way it is going to be that fast really , how about dl'ing summat from say somewhere like microsoft and timing it to see what you are really getting , on the 1mb connection i have , i sometimes see 130-140 k / s , but it aint really that fast

When i mentioned earlier about getting 110 K/s, it was when i downloaded W2K SP4. Was extremely surpirsed at the speed. I thought it may have something to do with the host at times!

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

and what is telling you this , windows download box or summat else

Dodgey speed reading me thinks

[Marge]

When I was d/l something he day I started off at about 109 then dropped to about 80, 600k through stb here normally download about 70-71

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by stuartbe

Dodgey speed reading me thinks

yes i fear so as well

[Seb]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

and what is telling you this , windows download box or summat else

Yer i used to go by that, then realised its not too reliable. When I can see a dowload is noticably faster i'll jus clock the time its takes to download, then calculate from the file size. Cant say i do that very often, i do have better things to do with me life!

EDIT:
Just did the Speed Test on Rob Walkers site, confirms it:

1st 128K took 1822 ms = 71939 Bytes/sec = approx 599 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 1813 ms = 72296 Bytes/sec = approx 602 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 1843 ms = 71119 Bytes/sec = approx 592 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 1792 ms = 73143 Bytes/sec = approx 609 kbits/sec

Its always been said (on nthw) to be a reliable and efficient speed test!

[Sociable]

Originally Posted by Seb

Yer i used to go by that, then realised its not too reliable. When I can see a dowload is noticably faster i'll jus clock the time its takes to download, then calculate from the file size. Cant say i do that very often, i do have better things to do with me life!

EDIT:
Just did the Speed Test on Rob Walkers site, confirms it:


Its always been said (on nthw) to be a reliable and efficient speed test!

What that test shows is you are getting close to the 600k you are paying for no more no less.

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by Sociable

What that test shows is you are getting close to the 600k you are paying for no more no less.

and you just beat me to it there , absoloutely spot on the mark for 600k service

[Seb]

Originally Posted by Sociable

What that test shows is you are getting close to the 600k you are paying for no more no less.

I cant grumble with my BB, had it for over three years, and its never been an issue! However start me on the Digital and Phone and thats whole different story

[Sociable]

Originally Posted by Seb

I cant grumble with my BB, had it for over three years, and its never been an issue! However start me on the Digital and Phone and thats whole different story

LOL Same here which is why I use Sky for TV. Don't use phone enough to worry about that so NTL still get my money for that too. (For now anyway.)

Originally Posted by Seb

Just did the Speed Test on Rob Walkers site, confirms it:


Its always been said (on nthw) to be a reliable and efficient speed test!

Yep, that speed test confirms you have a 600k connection.

This cannot run any faster than 75K bytes/sec whatever you may think - or some dodgy software may tell you (in fact, it will never run at 75k).

The same applies to a 1M connection (theoretical max of 128K bytes/sec).