What's your Internet Speed?

[severedsolo]

To be honest I've been with all of the big boys and they are all as bad as each other. Had a good experience with Plusnet though, I was going to switch back to them, but Sky offered me this deal, and I thought it was pretty good.

 

[mitchell65]

I see your point, I was kidding a bit, it's just that the customer satisfation figures have just come out and Sky did not do well as Brucie might say! But then we must speak as we find. I am with BT and found them excellent over the past 3 years! I pay for "Up to 70mg" and mostly get 68 - 69!
One minute ago got this;


Not bad for 6.35pm!

 

[severedsolo]

Can you provide a link? I'd be interested to read that, but Uswitch and broadbandchoices seem to both have sky coming 2nd?

 

[mitchell65]

It was on the Today programme on Radio 4 yesterday morning at 6.30am. Mind you R4 has had a downer on Sky for some time, I wonder why?

 

[Britton30]

That's a sweet connection Martine, 8ms ping it very good.

Mine at home "Blast" service 50Mbs.

From London, Vorboss

 

[HAVOC]

@ HAVOC

Pretty low result for the WiFi. You might want to change your router settings to fix your download speed.

What router settings would I need to change? I think my 802.11g card in my netbook is limiting the speeds.

 

[rvbfan]

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/621545058

 

[theveterans]

@ Havoc

Since your WiFi card is Wireless-G, there's nothing that can be done to get your Ethernet bandwidth speed since Wireless-G tops out at 54 Mbps. If that's Wireless-N, you can still use 40 MHz channel width, WPA-Personal/AES encryption settings and WMM (WiFi Multimedia) all enabled on the router to get 150 Mbps for 1x1 stream or 300 Mbps for 2x2 stream WiFi card.

Nevertheless, that's still more than enough for HD streaming and demanding bandwidth tasks and it's way better than the extremely overpriced rates by TWC here in Los Angeles County.

 

[HAVOC]

Thanks, I thought there was nothing to change and the netbook was the issue. I won't be getting a 802.11n card for the netbook. I would however, like to put in a SSD and more memory.

(yes, I use a netbook, my main computer is apart as I transfer the parts into a new case)

 

[abs4nz]

30 down and 10 up

 

[stve]

Virginmedia gave me a free upgrade from 50Mb to 100Mb this summer , a couple of weeks ago I had another speed boost to 120Mb

 

[Britton30]

Nice upgrade Steve, real good ping too.

 

[theveterans]

This is my first time I've completely saturated the 300 Mbps Wireless-N connection of my WiFi using university internet today. The rest are just overhead. I always take advantage of this incredible 20 MB/s upload speed by backing up my large files online . Now I'm very happy on the throughput of this Intel wireless NIC that I have on my laptop. I'm glad Lenovo put this NIC on their Y and Z series of their laptops instead of the slower 1x1 Atheros or 1x1 Broadcom NIC.
Speedtest.net by Ookla - My Results

 

[theveterans]

WOW! From reading many articles about WiFi overhead, most of them say that max you can get is only 160 Mbps out of 300 Mbps connection. Well, I must say that you can go above that and even reach 179 Mbps throughput! That's 60% of the theoretical speed. Here's some screenshots:
Speedtest.net by Ookla - My Results
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3067543427.png

In the middle of the upload speed test:



Speedtest result:

I guess enterprise class WiFi access point is awesome! Too bad the university throttles the download speed but I'm just interested with the maximum throughput that my WiFi adapter can put out

 

[awamsn]

Speedtest.net by Ookla - My Results

 

[Gator]

Wish I had the speed from the post above me but mine isn't too shabby

 

[JerometheGiraff]

Second fastest I can get on my line, and that my ISP sells.

 

[mitchell65]

Speedtest.net by Ookla - My Results

I didn't know that Virgin Media operated in the USA?

 

[Dom]

I stumbled across a tutorial that shows you how to stop Windows reserving packets, and my max 3 mb/s download shot up to this speed (makes a massive difference for me ):

In case anyone is interested here's the tutorial. I also found out you can use group policy editor and go to:
Computer configuration
Administrative template
Network
Click on QoS Packet Scheduler
Double click on limit reservable bandwidth
Enable, and set to 0.

 

[xxxdannyxxx]

Just had a satellite service installed as where we are the local council own the lines and I used to get 3Meg.


Well happy £25 a month