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Hammer

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22nd Oct 08 at 13:18

oceansoul

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22nd Oct 08 at 13:19

At Work (thames water)

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22nd Oct 08 at 13:32

[Edited on 22-10-2008 by ed]

John

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22nd Oct 08 at 14:52

quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool

quote:
Originally posted by FruitBooTeR
You do know that the test is not all the accurate....

Web-based speed tests measure only how fast data is able to travel from one part of the internet to another, which is subject to delays.

Also other factors that affect results are things like the number of people using the test, and the processing power of your computer.

An accurate test would be to use hardware that directly connects to a modem.

Yes, but speedtest.net (at least the London server) is very fast, and gives quite an accurate reading of real world line speed. Another way of doing it is to get a bandwidth monitor and download some large files from various places so your bandwidth is running at max.

It doesn't in all cases.

I know my speed from a fast server and its double what the speedtest shows.

Bram

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22nd Oct 08 at 20:21

Virgin Media 2Mb

luciaadr

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22nd Oct 08 at 20:44

Virgin Media 20Mb, I'm looking forward to 50Mb

ChrisBoom

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22nd Oct 08 at 20:50

Kurt

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22nd Oct 08 at 21:36

Robbo_Corsa

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22nd Oct 08 at 23:17

Graham88

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23rd Oct 08 at 00:23

I'm on 2 meg Virgin Media so I'd say that's pretty good.

[Edited on 23-10-2008 by Graham88]

Sam

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23rd Oct 08 at 07:00

quote:
Originally posted by Sam
O2 Broadband, 8Mb

Again this morning, just now:

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23rd Oct 08 at 07:12

Still not as fast as a Sunday afternoon...

dannymccann

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23rd Oct 08 at 08:32

BT Option 3 up to 8mb but I have moved quite far from the exchange so in

Maidenhead
D: 1460kbps
U: 340kbps

London
D: 1398kbps
U 377kbps

Which is shocking tbh. I think the contract is up in Jan, will I get better speeds from anyone else, still using BT phoneline hardware?

Sam

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23rd Oct 08 at 09:06

Have you tried removing the faceplate on the BT socket and connecting the ADSL filter to the 'test' socket inside?

Whittie

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23rd Oct 08 at 09:13

BT 8mb

Brett

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23rd Oct 08 at 10:04

quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
BT 8mb

You need to stop all the porno torrent downloads whilst you do the test mate

Whittie

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23rd Oct 08 at 10:14

When I did the test nothing was open, not even msn, let alone porno

pow

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23rd Oct 08 at 10:16

8MB talktalk apparently

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23rd Oct 08 at 12:20

quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
BT Option 3 up to 8mb but I have moved quite far from the exchange so in

Maidenhead
D: 1460kbps
U: 340kbps

London
D: 1398kbps
U 377kbps

Which is shocking tbh. I think the contract is up in Jan, will I get better speeds from anyone else, still using BT phoneline hardware?

No, hence why it's sold as up to 8mb.

GavCorsa

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23rd Oct 08 at 13:01

upto 8mb

GavCorsa

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23rd Oct 08 at 13:03

then tried london server - lol

Kurt

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23rd Oct 08 at 18:18

this up to 8mb is a right scam

quote:
Originally posted by Kurt

What a difference a day makes huh

[Edited on 23-10-2008 by Kurt]

also i dont get how it reports that but bt homehub is saying:

Broadband connection details:
Downstream 4,512 Kbps
Upstream 448 Kbps

[Edited on 23-10-2008 by Kurt]

Kurt

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23rd Oct 08 at 18:40

Even more confused now:

After reading an ethernet cable is 100mbps and wireless is 54mbps i tried with an ethernet cable

then to make sure it was a fair test i ran it wireless again and got this

Wtf

dannymccann

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23rd Oct 08 at 18:42

Definetly got everything turned off in the background Kurt? For example i once ran it and in the middle of the test my POP3 checker kicked in and I got something like 400kbps

Kurt

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23rd Oct 08 at 18:46

well the only things running were msn and cs in the background.. but it had finished loading and im not even online on msn