How fast is your BROADBAND ?

[Jello]

On O2 and £7.50 month
6656 down
833 up

 

[minnieme]

9784 paying for 10MB.

 

[Bozza]

In a hotel room in Ipswich with my 3 MiFi....

Down: 2384
Up: 1460

Significantly quicker than my home connection.

 

[Hiney]

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.

Agreed.

By moving the 'master' socket round my house to come into the room where the router is, I gained about 1.5mbps on the download speed.

You can also fit an ADSL booster to the main socket so you can do away with the splitter.

The ISP can probably 'boost' the signal from their end as well, they just don't like doing it.

 

[Marc]

4500kbps download and 350kbps upload

 

[Gritt23]

6240 download
677 upload.

Hmm, not bad Mr Branson.

 

[beorhthelm]

You can also fit an ADSL booster to the main socket so you can do away with the splitter.

is that a real thing or some snake oil? you have to split the signal, thats how broadband works. is this just jargon for a line filter to reduce noise/interference? unfortunatly the ISP cannot "boost" the signal as they are working to the telephone system standards.

 

[Surrey Seagull]

On Virgin Media with a 20 MB connection.

Speedtest.net: 19.56 Mb/s down, 0.73 Mb/s up
Speedchecker: 19.63 Mb/s down, 0.729 Mb/s up

Pretty consistant.

 

[El Turi]

Download speed 10512 kbps

Upload speed 591 kbps

I take it that's pretty good?

 

[Easy 10]

One phone call to a very pleasant indian chap later, and I'm up to.....

**drumroll**

4112 kbps

He boosted me up to 10 mb for NUFFIN.

I'm happy now.

 

[glasfryn]

down 6672
up 356
my broadband is supposed to be free from Talktalk....but our exchange is "unbundled" which means I have to pay £12.99
and I am right out in the sticks of semi-rural Wales

 

[Hiney]

is that a real thing or some snake oil? you have to split the signal, thats how broadband works. is this just jargon for a line filter to reduce noise/interference? unfortunatly the ISP cannot "boost" the signal as they are working to the telephone system standards.

Well my man fitted a plate to the front of my socket that had the phone and modem sockets built in.

He also told me to ring Sky as they 'would be able to turn it up' I did that and the speed miraculously went up by about 0.5mbps

I'm not really a techie so don't really know what they did, if anything.

 

[Hiney]

is that a real thing or some snake oil? you have to split the signal, thats how broadband works. is this just jargon for a line filter to reduce noise/interference? unfortunatly the ISP cannot "boost" the signal as they are working to the telephone system standards.

One phone call to a very pleasant indian chap later, and I'm up to.....

**drumroll**

4112 kbps

He boosted me up to 10 mb for NUFFIN.

I'm happy now.

 

[Everest]

One phone call to a very pleasant indian chap later, and I'm up to.....

**drumroll**

4112 kbps

He boosted me up to 10 mb for NUFFIN.

I'm happy now.

That's still pretty low.
When I had the 10Mb I was getting over 9 download, and I'm not far from you.

He probably means he was put up to the next tariff.

 

[Easy 10]

That's still pretty low.
When I had the 10Mb I was getting over 9 download, and I'm not far from you.

Yes he did mention that it was probably my wireless router (and to illustrate the point, he had me plug the ethernet cable directly into the back of my lappy, and it was indeed much faster).

He's given me a helpline number for the router company (Netgear) and said they should be able to help talk me through a few settings tweeks that will get the speed up further. Frankly though, now he's juiced me up to 10mb (for no extra charges!), the 4000 kbps I'm getting is plenty quick enough anyway, being as I don't bother downloading films or music etc.

As long as stuff like iPlayer and Youtube is working fine, which it is now, then I'm happy,

 

[beorhthelm]

Well my man fitted a plate to the front of my socket that had the phone and modem sockets built in.

He also told me to ring Sky as they 'would be able to turn it up' I did that and the speed miraculously went up by about 0.5mbps

I'm not really a techie so don't really know what they did, if anything.

yeah, i looked it up, the iplate is what your talking about which is indeed a filter (has the "spliter" compent built in. as for boosting, its a semantics thing, you say signal but really its just the permitted bandwidth setting is changed. good to know the ISPs do help improve speeds.

 

[Uncle Buck]

Fibre trunks to the house and then running fibre in the house and fibre patch cords to the machine would sort most of this out.

 

[Nibble]

Sometimes my broadband is so fast I don't even have time to cook my breakfast, eat it and load washer before Mozilla has loaded itself.