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[Deadlight]

Good enough for me!

[Mike306]

Finally got a date for my cabinet to be upgraded for FTTC. It's meant to be by 31st December 2012, so expect it anytime next year.

[sweatherly]

On the O2 All Rounder package approx. 1.46km from the exchange, with estimated speeds of:

up to 2Mbps via ADSL

5Mbps or greater ADSL connection via ADSL Max

6Mbps or greater via ADSL2+

Not too bad given the estimated speed on ADSL2+

Unfortunately no Infinity available here :-(

[blueball]

Virgin Media: Utter rubbish

[imunkee]

Talk Talk. Fairly good speeds

[andrewuk]

So after waiting months and months for FTTC (it was delayed 3 times for about 1.5 years total) to be installed in our area, the Openreach engineer has just left and it's bye bye BE 10mbit and hello Infinity 80/20!



Only about 200m to the cab so it syncs at the full whack, plus he said the line is capable of 117mbps down and 45mbps up when he looked as his test machine. It's nice to know there'e even more speed available if BT roll out a faster product!

Well happy!!! If it stays like that it's been more than worth the wait. I'm only the 3rd person to be activated on the cab.

[Blackspur]

Getting what I am paying for so I can't really complain.

[whitetop]

don't use speedtest.net isp's pay them to say your getting the right speed they been doing it for years

http://testmy.net is the real checker

ps.this is on a 30mb package from virgin media

[Scainer]

don't use speedtest.net isp's pay them to say your getting the right speed they been doing it for years

http://testmy.net is the real checker

That site must be rubbish because all you need to do to test your true speed is download something, and view the transfer rate. It probably has routing issues.

I've used http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/ and http://www.speedtest.net/ in the past during times of struggle and both have showed speed issues.

[whitetop]

That site must be rubbish because all you need to do to test your true speed is download something, and view the transfer rate. It probably has routing issues.

I've used http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/ and http://www.speedtest.net/ in the past during times of struggle and both have showed speed issues.

yeah but still shows real line speed dude


now show me you downloading a file at 29.8mbps or 31.65mbps as there is no way one could download at that speed my maxed out speed is steam with 6mbps then went right down to 3mbps virgin cap your speed to save money pity telewest went bankrupt they was better

[watercooled]

Agreed, that site is pants. I'm on 60Mb/s and it's saying 11.9Mb/s download - they have bandwidth problems of their own or are testing poorly.

Steam, FTP to garr, Youtube, and other speedtesters all show close to line speed, as does ntop on my router.

[pipTheGeek]

yeah but still shows real line speed dude


now show me you downloading a file at 29.8mbps or 31.65mbps as there is no way one could download at that speed my maxed out speed is steam with 6mbps then went right down to 3mbps virgin cap your speed to save money pity telewest went bankrupt they was better

I'm on VM 50mb and regularly have downloads at full speed. 50megabits per second works out to around 6megabytes per second. So your steam download at 6mbps is not far off full speed. I have also hit my cap on occasions and steam downloads have dropped to about 3meg, which is slightly annoying, but we don't appear to have congestion issues in my area so I'm not going to complain too much.

Although I don't think isp's pay speedtest, I do suspect that VM have prioritised traffic for the common speedtest sites.

[watercooled]

Virgin Media, like other ISPs, can occasionally suffer from peering bandwidth problems to specific sites at times of high demand, I recently complained on Hexus about issues with Youtube bandwidth, but it seems to be sorted now. Even then, speed to other sites was fine.



Don't want to spam too many images, links below for further tests:
http://i.imgur.com/yhJqz.png
http://i.imgur.com/Dsv2E.png
http://i.imgur.com/a4B1d.png
http://i.imgur.com/rYiUz.png
http://i.imgur.com/1BXAx.png

7.5MB = 60Mb BTW

Edit: Few more links added.

[whitetop]

Although I don't think isp's pay speedtest, I do suspect that VM have prioritised traffic for the common speedtest sites.

there has been proof of this if looked into it im a mod and leader of a news team on a site and have put reports and proof so many times.

virgin is ok but not best in the uk

people on my street with vm and thats only 6 of us (small house street) they get 10mbps+ yet soon as i hit 6mb boom right down to 3mb had people out all ok power lvls ect all ok yet no one knows why im the odd one out

[Scainer]

yeah but still shows real line speed dude
now show me you downloading a file at 29.8mbps or 31.65mbps as there is no way one could download at that speed my maxed out speed is steam with 6mbps then went right down to 3mbps virgin cap your speed to save money pity telewest went bankrupt they was better

Here you go....


3.8MBps * 8 = 30.4Mbps

The file was the latest nvidia drivers. Remember that you can only download as fast as the server can send them.
So some servers might limit the speed or like youtube have to contend with lots of simultaneous connections.

Like i said, that site you linked has to have issues, as I can regularly download at 3.7 - 3.8 MB.
Maybe they are trying to sell optimisation rubbish, rather than them having technical issues.

[Stoo]

Testmy is a load of rubbish, it was claiming 12mbit down 5mbit up for me..



Steam shows between 8-9MB/sec on all updates, likewise anything else with sufficient bandwidth.

It's amazing how many sites top out at 2-3MB/sec.