How fast is your BROADBAND ?

[upthealbion1970]

5904 down
378 up

 

[phoenix]

download 7.6 mbps

upload 0.4 mbps

Virgin Media 10 mbps

 

[Marshy]

13208 ! nice

 

[John Bumlick]

Speed depends on :
1. distance from exchange
2. shite wiring in your house
3. type of cable between exchange and premises (copper good, ali no so good)
4. contention ratio (how many other uses are sharing the DSLAM usage)
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this is a big factor and something you might be able to do something about. you really need to connect your modem to the phone jack closest to the entrance point to your house (meaning the phone line, not the front door).

i wired up a phone extension in my house - works fine for the phone but when i connect my modem to that jack i get about a 60% reduction in download speed.

 

[Billy the Fish]

5.7 Mb download

Agree with the last post, house wiring makes a big difference. I gave myself an extra 2Mbps recently by following the instructions on this website:

http://www.jarviser.co.uk/jarviser/broadbandspeed.html

If you're using a shit extension lead it can kill your speeds. Going on advice from that website I pulled the middle two pins from the extension lead and it definitely made a difference. I also pulled the bellwire out of the BT master socket, and that's where my extra 2Mbps came from. Well worth a look

 

[Billy the Fish]

Easy - my home broadband is so quick it usually sends e-mails or internet posts before I've even finished writing them you sad pathetic c

 

[phoenix]

Same here, Easy. Virgin are a pile of dogwank.

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Considering Virgin Media are supposed so crap,why are so many of us getting such fast speeds.£25 Per month for tv, phone, and 10 meg broadband.Pretty good I would think.

 

[Horsham Gull]

funny my results because if i go into my router its telling me
Modem Status Connected
DownStream Connection Speed 6560 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 448 kbps

 

[gullty]

 

[gullty]

 

[gullty]

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

7864down
849up

 

[Grendel]

3552kbps down
337kbps up

Apparently, it's actually faster than we can supposedly get.

 

[Giraffe]

8.24
0.481

With Virgin

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

1.69 down. 0.21 up.

But the weather is very nice, and the sea is very warm...

 

[matildaseagull]

336kbps - am I officially the slowest?? But I live miles from civilization with lots of bunnies and deer.

 

[matildaseagull]

Just took an hour to download an old Soup Dragons album, ffs.

 

[itszamora]

12664kbps down
1018kbps up

Which is actually FASTER than BT said it would be, so I'm happy! I am in London and in an almost brand new flat though, which I'm sure helps.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

3880 Kbps download
371 Kbps upload.

That's the BT phone system out our way - it still runs on clockwork, I think.

BT claim we can get 5.5Mbps by switching to BT Business Broadband.

We already have.

 

[Withnail]

Down 46576 kbps
Up 6534 kbps

Thanks to living in a Lincolnshire village BT lines aren't really an option. Thanks Virgin with your super fast jiggery pokery.