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[iamlorro]

New Asus router after the Dlink Dir-615 burnt out.

Wow. didnt think the DIR's would cope with that! Did VM offer you a superhub?

[iamlorro]

I'm supposed to have 40 - but I am streaming a hd quality (apparently) tv program at the moment...

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3144736109

Historically I did find some of the speed test servers varied, but I tried a couple just now and they were around the same....

[bloodkil]

I'm clearly the winner here :S

[sam i am]

Wow. didnt think the DIR's would cope with that! Did VM offer you a superhub?

Hehe - I think that's his speed now he has an ASUS router (after the DIR-615 broke)

DIR-615 can't do above 70mbit

[Brian224]

Virgin (ex-Telewest) cable. The best our BT line ever gave on Sky 2Mb was 0.5 Mb.

[DeludedGuy]

its awesome to know that 94% of GB is slower than me

[SnowFox108]

[scaryjim]

Finally got FTTC to the new house today:





Need to give Plusnet a ring, I think...

[brianzion]

yeah that dont look right didnt the engineer test the line when fitted.

[watercooled]

IIRC it can take a day or two for the speed to ramp up - see how it goes over the next day or two (the call centres may be on holiday anyway?), and phone if there's no improvement.

Edit: Yeah DLM can occasionally trigger, causing the above. Try to avoid rebooting the modem unnecessarily as that can apparently mess with it too.

[scaryjim]

I'll give it a day or two: here's this morning's result:



So we're getting somewhere.

tbf it's the consistent up speed I want from fibre anyway (going to start running my own web/mail server for side projects) so I'd be pretty happy with 20/20 anyway, but I suspect the speed is being ramped slowly and will improve. At the old place I couldn't get over 20mbps at busy times thanks to over-contention on the exchange anyway (and it never crept over 40, despite me theoretically being on 80/20 there).

Anyway, I'll keep testing and posting over the next couple of days. The main takeaway from this is that I've got regular internet access again!

[scaryjim]

Just moved to a new office at work, so figured I'd give that connection a pop:



Ever get the feeling you're in the same building as the test server?

[deejayburnout]

This is the speed at my work.




i am suprised its that fast. Feels and acts alot slower

[nev24]

Here is mine.

[Dan-M420]

I'll give it a day or two: here's this morning's result:



So we're getting somewhere.

tbf it's the consistent up speed I want from fibre anyway (going to start running my own web/mail server for side projects) so I'd be pretty happy with 20/20 anyway, but I suspect the speed is being ramped slowly and will improve. At the old place I couldn't get over 20mbps at busy times thanks to over-contention on the exchange anyway (and it never crept over 40, despite me theoretically being on 80/20 there).

Anyway, I'll keep testing and posting over the next couple of days. The main takeaway from this is that I've got regular internet access again!

This is why you should avoid DSL!

[scaryjim]

This is why you should avoid DSL!

Because I get 20mbps bidirectional access with 20ms ping? Given I remember how unbearably exciting it was when I was first able to get ADSL to my own home, at a blazing 512kbps down (iirc it was 128kbps up), you'll excuse me for thinking I'm not doing too badly

Besides, some of us don't have any other option - no fibre on my street (despite it being one of the main roads through a residential area of suburban Manchester )