Broadband Speeds

Jon Daniels
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Anyone beat this?

4 months ago

Hoover slut
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No.

4 months ago

Hoover slut
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How big is your e-pen0r after posting that Jon laughing

4 months ago

13th Duke of Wybourne
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Anyone beat this?

I got an email from them the other day saying they were upgrading all their 100mb customers to 130mb for free, did you get it?

4 months ago

Jon Daniels
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Anyone beat this?

I got an email from them the other day saying they were upgrading all their 100mb customers to 130mb for free, did you get it?

Yeah I got the same email, madness eh!

4 months ago

Jon Daniels
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How big is your e-pen0r after posting that Jon laughing

Massive mate. biggrin

4 months ago

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on the topic. my speed comes in around 11mbs download. but in actual realtime downloads it never goes beyond about 1.1mb on download, doesnt matter what server its off either. It seems like its capped but even Sky say its at 11mb/s download and the router settings say the same.

any ideas?

4 months ago

Hoover slut
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on the topic. my speed comes in around 11mbs download. but in actual realtime downloads it never goes beyond about 1.1mb on download, doesnt matter what server its off either. It seems like its capped but even Sky say its at 11mb/s download and the router settings say the same.

any ideas?

That sounds about right. I cant remember the exact maths behind it but i think your actual download is 1/8th of your supposed download speed. Like Jon will never download at 100mbps. My download speed is around 4mbps but i only ever get 600kbps max.

4 months ago

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Im on the Sky 20MB package. it should be at 11mb/s as the router says and Sky themselves confirm that is what the line speed says. But it never goes beyond that 1.1mb mark

4 months ago

Hoover slut
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The net may be running at 11mbps yea. But you will never get them sort of download speeds. As i said, the actual download speed is 1/8th of that. Not even if u were on the full 20mbps line with perfect connection would you get 11mbps download speeds. Its physically impossible.

Post edited by owner 1/21/2012 3:46:10 PM

4 months ago

13th Duke of Wybourne
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The net may be running at 11mbps yea. But you will never get them sort of download speeds. As i said, the actual download speed is 1/8th of that. Not even if u were on the full 20mbps line with perfect connection would you get 11mbps download speeds. Its physically impossible.

That's not why you dont get max speed.

Your download speed is only as fast as the slowest link in the process - that is more than likely the output speed of the server you are accessing. They tend to either throttle each connection, or have so much demand that they cant keep up. Ways round this are to run multiple connection threads at the same, this is what protocols like FTP allow you to do.

You would have noticed on sites like megaupload you can pay to get faster connectivity, and when you do, they simply raise the ceiling on the throttle speed.

Of course some sites don't throttle at all, such as usergroups that share movies etc or other large files. Of course even with these you are unlikely to get anywhere near 100mb down

Post edited by owner 1/21/2012 5:55:43 PM

4 months ago

Megamind
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Fucking hell, I get 30 down and 3 up and thats fastest for this area.

4 months ago

Optimus Jones
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35 down and 1.8 up here.

Had to piss on my chips eh? flash twat.

4 months ago

Lii
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Boogy

I get 5 up and 1 down.

Please don't call me Mark

4 months ago

Lii
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Boogy

Crosswords are bad enough

4 months ago

kris

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im on 10 down and 2.5 up at home, i could squeeze a bit more out of it with a different/more agressive line profile....

one of my customers has 1gb fiber. the fastest i ever saw that was around 60MBps (mega bytes per second) downloading a centos iso...

4 months ago

One for the doctor...
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Anyone beat this?

I beat your up( 6.8 on the first go) but was at about 38 down. frown

Had fiber in Japan. That was fucking 5 years ago and it was still the fastest fucking interwebs I've ever seen/had.

4 months ago

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if you download more than one film between 4pm - 9pm you'll get nothing for the next 12 hours on virgin media.

I had a message saying they are upgrading customers, then noticed that as im a Large tariff, they aren't upgrading my speed. Everyone else is though.

4 months ago

AMH

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Halifax

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Nothing to do with that at all, nothing to do with 'capping'.

You have 100 megaBYTE internet. 8 bits in a byte....

Therefore 1 MegaByte will give 128kbps download......

Bandwidth and speed.... different things. thumbsup

Similar to hard drive sizes.... shops selling the byte size and not the bit, so its actually smaller than what it looks.....

4 months ago

Anything goes.../Hard-Dub

Tom Payne

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Nothing to do with that at all, nothing to do with 'capping'.

You have 100 megaBYTE internet. 8 bits in a byte....

Therefore 1 MegaByte will give 128kbps download......

Bandwidth and speed.... different things. thumbsup

Similar to hard drive sizes.... shops selling the byte size and not the bit, so its actually smaller than what it looks.....

Erm... Wrong way around mate! laughing

Connections are advertised in Mb/s, but download speeds are measured in KB/s or MB/s

Virgin offer 100Mb/s connections, not 100MB/s.

A 100Mb connection has a theoretical download speed of 12.5MB/s

It's a fairly different story with hard drive sizes too. Their capacity is advertised with the literal translation of kilo/mega/giga etc in mind (multiples of 1000), whereas your computer works it out as a power of 2... It's decimal vs binary, rather than bit vs byte

Post edited by owner 23/01/2012 19:51:02

4 months ago

AMH

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Halifax

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sorry, 2mega(b)it internet 256k(B)yte download...slip of the finger uhoh

Hard drives are sold in Bytes which is denary, no different to you quoting multiples of a thousand. Obviously for every gig advertised in denary you'll lose about 70 meg (1000 to 1024 ratio).

Robbing bastards lol

4 months ago

Anything goes.../Hard-Dub

Tom Payne

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Aye, so bloody annoying when a massive chunk is missing from your hard drive before you've even plugged her in...

4 months ago

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I just tested mine I got download 9.81mbps up 0.65mbps and 48ms ping, 51% of GB is faster than me.

I am paying for 10mb @ £26 per month with virgin media. Got a letter today saying they are going to increase it to 20mb by July this year.

4 months ago

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I just tested mine I got download 9.81mbps up 0.65mbps and 48ms ping, 51% of GB is faster than me.

I am paying for 10mb @ £26 per month with virgin media. Got a letter today saying they are going to increase it to 20mb by July this year.

£26 a month ? you're getting ripped off (unless that includes line rental & calls)

4 months ago

Jon Daniels
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