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Registered Member #1334
Joined: Tue Feb 19 2008, 04:37PM
Location: Nr. London, UK
Posts: 615
I'm on Plus.net 8mbit/s and I never get more than 6.7mbit/s according to speedtest.net. I actually think that is pretty good, considering I'm out in the countryside. Upload speeds are obviously chronic at about 350kbit/s
What they should make clear is the distinction between bitrate (the clock frequency) and actual throughput. They always advertise the bitrate and claim that contention ratios are "a commercial secret".
What amazes me is that this is only coming to a head now - its been known and grumbled about ever since ADSL first appeared...
Registered Member #2261
Joined: Mon Aug 03 2009, 01:19AM
Location: London, UK
Posts: 581
I'm on Virgin cable. It's usually just shy of the advertised 10MB, so no complaints there, but I think they still lie about offering unlimited downloads. After you exceed their limit during peak times they cut your speed right back as a penalty for something like 5 hours. If you download 720p or higher resolution films you'll keep running into their limit. A friend has Sky, so he went for their genuinely unlimited 20MB connection.
Registered Member #2648
Joined: Sun Jan 24 2010, 12:45PM
Location: Australia
Posts: 291
In Aus (with our S*** internet) I get usually 15% of the up to speed. Right now I'm on up tp 1mbps (the very fastest cable I can get) and I get 156kBps. Before I was on a 516kbps for a different company (same provider I think) and the speed was 56kbps. And before that I had dial up, up to 57kbps and I got 3kbps.
Now you know why Aussie pings are always so low... edit: I mean high! high pings are worse, we have high pings not low pings. gah xD
Registered Member #2875
Joined: Mon May 24 2010, 08:28AM
Location: England
Posts: 42
I am on Be up to 24mbps, I actually get a speed slightly faster than their estimator said I would.
Speed issues are mainly down to the abysmal quality of the infrastructure in this country anyway, it is hardly the ISP's fault that BT can't keep it's own cables in good condition.
Registered Member #160
Joined: Mon Feb 13 2006, 02:07AM
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 938
GhostNull wrote ...
In Aus (with our S*** internet) I get usually 15% of the up to speed. Right now I'm on up tp 1mbps (the very fastest cable I can get) and I get 156kBps. Before I was on a 516kbps for a different company (same provider I think) and the speed was 56kbps. And before that I had dial up, up to 57kbps and I got 3kbps.
Now you know why Aussie pings are always so low...
Wow!! That's really s***!! I'm on 1.5Mb and I get just over 1Mb.
Registered Member #1361
Joined: Thu Feb 28 2008, 10:57AM
Location: Cairns, Australia
Posts: 305
I have ADSL1 Fast (8mbit/1mbit) and I'm fairly happy with it. I max out at about 700KB/s down and 90KB/s up. Their minimum guarantee is 1500/256kb/s. However, I have a 100GB cap, and it costs me $130/month :(
Registered Member #1334
Joined: Tue Feb 19 2008, 04:37PM
Location: Nr. London, UK
Posts: 615
lpfthings wrote ...
I have ADSL1 Fast (8mbit/1mbit) and I'm fairly happy with it. I max out at about 700KB/s down and 90KB/s up. Their minimum guarantee is 1500/256kb/s. However, I have a 100GB cap, and it costs me $130/month :(
Eeek! I have a 60GB cap and it costs me USD 20 pcm...
Registered Member #96
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
Posts: 4062
grr.. is it no wonder that people "leech" fast wifi connections when available..
what we need is a reliable way to reduce some of the junk on our networks, perhaps introduce a law requiring PC owners to install and use an approved antivirus product or get a bandwidth/speed cap..
Registered Member #543
Joined: Tue Feb 20 2007, 04:26PM
Location: UK
Posts: 4992
Conundrum wrote ...
what we need is a reliable way to reduce some of the junk on our networks, perhaps introduce a law requiring PC owners to install and use an approved antivirus product or get a bandwidth/speed cap..
Pages load all that much faster when you use NoScript.
But the beef isn't the slow speed itself, but that the service providers are perpetrating what amounts to a Trade Descriptions Act offence, by misleading customers to expect a very much higher speed than is in fact available to all but 2% of subscribers.
Fifty to one against getting the advertised speed...
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