Internet Speed

tut · Post by **tut** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:19 am

Robin

My 8 hops average 52ms for a 2mb line. Seems slow.

tut

robin · Post by **robin** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:31 am

Tut,

50ms to BBC is average.

If you're concerned about download speeds try downloading from:

http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/releases/ ... nt/stages/

Right mouse button on the first item (stage1-babble-babble) and do "Save Target As...". Take a look at the indicated download speed. For a 1mbit/s line you're looking for around 120Kbyte/s. For a 2mbit/s line you're looking for around 240kbyte/s. Etc.

When my 8mbit line was first enabled I was getting around 4mbit/s (i.e. around 500kbyte/s) but in recent months it has got quite a bit slower and now I am lucky to see 2mbit/s worth.

I think most of the ISPs have been implementing traffic shaping to throttle back the rate you get - so called "unlimited" might be unlimited total download per month, but apparently they achieve this by limiting your bit rate instead

[P.S. my actual link is reliably linked at 7616/448 kbit/s so not a physical problem.

[P.P.S. running some automated updates on the server this morning I notice that it is now fetching packages at 500kbyte/s = 4mbit/s again so happy camper]

Cheers,
Robin

The_Rossatron · Post by **The_Rossatron** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:18 am

Skyenet wrote:Maybe Orange Broadband isn't so bad after all No problems with loss of speed here.

Grrrrr. Mine is averaging around 0Mbps

Skyenet · Post by **Skyenet** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:24 pm

The_Rossatron wrote: Grrrrr. Mine is averaging around 0Mbps

That is pretty slow

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:08 pm

Maybe is is Osama ...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 496831.ece

Post by ed » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:19 pm

I just phoned up for a moan at Telewest and they upgraded my internet to 10mb/s and gave me the full tv package for less than i was already paying! Hope you guys are as lucky as me!

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:26 pm

ed wrote:I just phoned up for a moan at Telewest and they upgraded my internet to 10mb/s and gave me the full tv package for less than i was already paying! Hope you guys are as lucky as me!

Guess who will be going blind faster in more than one way .....

PS did we talk tomtom last time ?

Post by ed » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:45 pm

yet again youve lost me!

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:41 am

Thatâ€™s me back to normal, well my net speed anyway. My brother (IT geek) had a look for me, ended up being the software for the modem.

Cheers for your help

Kev
/not IT compatible/