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Michael P
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Posted: 16th Apr 2008 09:36 Edited at: 16th Apr 2008 09:37
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I noticed something today:


Should my internet be so slow since I'm paying for 8mb/s?

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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 16th Apr 2008 12:53
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Try speedtest.net and see what it reports.


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Well, internet speed is also based on your computer speed. What you pay for is the maximum. In my house, the newer the computer, the faster the internet connection.

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Also has to do with cabling, traffic and rabbits biting on the cable.


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As your on ADSL your speed will be affected by many things such as distance from exchange, quality of cables, traffic, and as tha_rami said, rabbits biting on the cable.

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RalphY is right, unless they switch your cables over to fibre and everyone else is not using the internet you will never get the full potential. There's been arguments recently about companies advertising 8 or 10mb broadband even though in most places you can only dream of that kind of speed. So now they very slyly (is that even a word?) put a small piece of fine print in that says that you probably wont ever get that speed.

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My 20MB Broadband is only 8MB. And its cable

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I believe that's pretty close to what comcast advertises as well...

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Posted: 16th Apr 2008 20:53 Edited at: 16th Apr 2008 21:00
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It's your distance from the exchange and how many people share your bandwidth. I'm just 200m from my exchange and my ISP is not so well known every one and his dog uses it.

Sack BT off and go with Be unlimited instead



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Posted: 16th Apr 2008 21:11
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Heres mine:
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That's mine!



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Posted: 16th Apr 2008 22:38
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The network where I live sucks. I might as well be on 56k.


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Here's mine:



Apparently I'm at the UK average but I'm paying for 8Mb broadband yet get only 4Mb.

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Mine (20MB is what I'm supposed to get)
So annoymeous you're doing well compared to me!

2.6MB! I'm angry

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Since we're posting our speed again, somebody beat this




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It doesn't count Jeku! You're not paying for it!

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Quote: "My 20MB Broadband is only 8MB. And its cable
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It means some people in the area are BitTorrent happy.


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@Jeku - You have fios or something? Your speed makes my arm spasm.

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Quote: "Well, internet speed is also based on your computer speed. What you pay for is the maximum. In my house, the newer the computer, the faster the internet connection."


Yep - my laptop downloads web pages, etc, much faster than my much older PC.

Quote: "your speed will be affected by many things such as distance from exchange, quality of cables, traffic, and as tha_rami said, rabbits biting on the cable."


And of course, cat fur on the keyboard.
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Quote: "It means some people in the area are BitTorrent happy."

Stupid Bittorrent


Quote: "@Jeku - You have fios or something? Your speed makes my arm spasm."



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I crushed your download speed



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Posted: 17th Apr 2008 19:05 Edited at: 17th Apr 2008 19:11
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Quote: "Sack BT off and go with Be unlimited instead"


All SP's are as bad as each other, as i work for BTWholesale Im not permitted to say which are good and which are bad, But personally i get Virgin Media through the Cable network I pay for 2MB BB, and very rarly have any problems, Quick Enouth to Watch an Online Film, While Downloading on a wireless network with 2 PC's and a Laptop.

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w00t at Jeff032. But then again they are an educational institute and therefore get priority internet access if I recall correctly.

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Electronic arts pays for it - they dont have their own, do they?

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Mine:
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I wish I could test mine back when I had dialup and show you all the single didget madness.

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Posted: 18th Apr 2008 00:04 Edited at: 18th Apr 2008 00:27
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PC


I'll come back with laptop result in a while.

Edit:

Here's the laptop:



I expected the two results to be quite different. Looks like it's just a line test - doesn't depend on PC/laptop capability at all?

Anyone know what the "distance" means? I can't make sense of it.
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its you ip distance from the server you chose to test with and i believe it is just a line test

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Pretty much exactly as I expected. It's slow, but I'm definitely not getting ripped off. That's what I pay for.

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aww damn our slow aussie broadband



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i pay for 2mb broadband so this is about what i pay for.

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you can only recieve as fast as the site you are going to can transmit.




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wow! you guys are mostly wrong in fact. First of all, I am Cisco A+ certified. Secondly, the fastest transmission speed, router wise, is the wireless N 802.11n IEEE standard. It has a transmission speed of about 540 Mbps or mega bits (small b) per second, and that is faster than any transmission rate overd any form of internet or cabling, even fiber. The ISP transmission rate, is determined by their servers, on the other side of the fence, not what you get. I have FiOS T2, and It is fine for me. Sprry if I came off a bit harsh.

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I thought N was about 300 Mbps

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Having a router capable of 540mbps is pritty useless for most people as even FiberOptic is only around 100mbps so it should only be large internal networks which might need that kind of power, my router is only 54mbps, but thats plenty for me.

Also i thought posting your ip address and network card/routers mac codes was only a problem if you have things like remote access or VPN's activated, but there always disabled by default.

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Okay maybe the work one isn't valid, but here's my home one.




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I think that for me Virgin Media can't cope with 20mb. They should refund my family as we pay for 20Mb and get just 2MB
Which MSon pays for 2MB gets 2Mb. We pay for 20MB and we get the same as MSon. (MSon Don't take this at you its just cause you are also on Virgin Media and get what you pay for-If someone else had Virgin and got their speed I would have used their name instead)

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The maximum I have ever downloaded at is 1.1 MB/s. Maybe the servers can't handle anything higher, or maybe speedtest is faulty.
I've run this test before and got 9MB/s down and 8MB/s up.
I don't mind though...

@GatorHex: Nice! I'm looking into various broadband providers at the moment for when my mates and I move into our new house.
Have you tried it with Xbox live at all? How reliable is the service?
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I believe it measures kilobits per second (lowercase 'kb') so 8816/8 = 1102 KB/s = about 1.1 MB/s

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Posted: 20th Apr 2008 22:43 Edited at: 20th Apr 2008 22:44
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Well, here at my parents house the connection speed is supposed to be 1 Mb/s, but...



1 Mb is still 1024 Kb, isn't it?

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