Question:
What speed is your connection if you are using Broadband 512mbs or above
Or is it below this (Midband) any speed higher than Dialup 56k?
And is anybody connected at any odd speeds?
can you specify thanks

Choices:
Up to 256 MBs
256 MBs
512 MBs
1024 MBs
Above this speed (Specify please)

 

This message has been edited. Last edited by: bedstor,

bedstor,
I dont have broadband, but have dialup with the Proxyconn Accelerator. I usually range in speed from 60kbps to over 200kbps. Its the next best thing to DSL I can get. It has definitely speeded up my page loading. It does not affect my downloading though, too bad, could really use it when I'm downloading large files. Right this moment, I'm going at 135kbps.

chris

Download - 857852 bps, or 837 kbps.
Upload - 123839 bps, or 120 kbps.

Shouldn't those be kbps? If not, I want to find out what the guy getting over 1 GBps is using

Anyway, I ran a few tests at work, highest was 11 Mbps, lowest was 7 Mbps (at home, I typically get 50-53 kbps, how depressing).

Can you tell me where to look? I have 1Mb cable broadband, which I suspect should be rather faster than it is.

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Originally posted by Ewood27:
Can you tell me where to look? I have 1Mb cable broadband, which I suspect should be rather faster than it is.

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Ewood
Who is your provider? (Telewest? NTL? or who?)If you are above 1 Mb then you'll be paying over 35 pounds per month
Find the company and I'll give you the Speed
I read that 1 company(Telewest) has raised its speed at no extra charge from 1 Mb to 1.5Mb is your account with these?

Ewood - type

connection speed test

into Google and you'll get quite a few sites that will let you check your actual connection speed and see if it measures up to what you are paying for.

http://www.dslreports.com works the best.

Then Test and Tools from the left.

ivnj

1500 - 2000 and about 250 up.

ivnj

bedstor, I'm on ntl "always on" 1 Mb. I ran a download test on this UK site and it reported 120 Mb/sec. Their 10 Mb test file downloaded in 1 min 26 secs (they quote 3:42 for a 512k connection, so mine seems OK on that). Is this the sort of speed I should be seeing?

Ewood
Timings I have say 100 secs/1 min 40 secs for a 10MB download @1 MB
With the time you quoted I'd say you are getting better than average speed

Thank you, bedstor. There's a caveat on the site that if you run the test more than once the computer may cache the file, giving a false time. I've just run it again once, having shut my computer down overnight and rebooted this morning. The 10 Mb file took 1:27, just one second longer.

Tests on one of ivnj's sites give 826 mbps "down" and 232 "up".

Methinks people are misusing Mbps. 120Mb/sec would mean that you are downloading more than your standard network allows. Standard networks are 10/100 (10 Base-T).

With the last speed given, you are downloading at a rate of 117.78 KBps (Kilobytes Per Second). This would mean that your given speed is 942.24 Kbps (Kilobits Per Second). I guess that's higher than the advertised speed?