BT line reconnection

[Southwell]

Yeah NTL broadband is great but 2mb doesn't cut it and £35 a month for what i had at my rents doesn't wash too well with the mrs as she pays half Ive just talked her into a new tv and a second sky + box too

[DCM]

Vrigin have upped the bandwidth big time dude... download rates are great... uploads not so good

[Southwell]

Haha ive just remembered i swapped my 'games room' and our bedroom around on the weekend and ran a 30 metre network cable around the walls, lots of hole filling and painting is going to be my weekend

[DCM]

shoud of buried the bugger in the wall and forget about it Ian, roflol

[rcracer]

Originally Posted by craigosh

if you want to test your broadband use the speed checker at www.thinkbroadband.com pretty accurate from what i can tell.

if this is right i'm back on the blower to my isp
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedt...085024114.html

[Southwell]

Originally Posted by rcracer

if this is right i'm back on the blower to my isp
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedt...085024114.html

Nevermind, they show the stats strangely.

[trekkerkk]

i just did a test rebooted the pc and modem,
got a download speed off 11.313 not bad at all
thats with sky,i joined right at the beginning when they were offering 16mb download,

trekkker

[Bathy]

Very fancy speed test...

http://www.speedtest.net/

To the point speed test...

http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

Mine is 'great' but I knew that already, BT is always going to provide the best service... remember that every other provider depends on them!

Ian try this link... should help you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ekIIvfyfD8

[budgio]

I,m on 20mb virgin media (formerly NTL)
The best way of testing your speed is downloading a good .torrent (usually from a private site) file or from a nzb file (newsgroup)
Not one of the tests i have done from any of the links given in this thread are accurate.
some giving me 511 kb,s and some 14,320 kb,s etc


for example

I have just downloaded a 705mb . torrent (lots of seeders 4000+) file in less than 8 mins and was nearing my max 2024 kb,s

Cable all the way

[Southwell]

Cable is generally throttled on torrents, ADSL should work better unless you have a really good swarm, which you get on private sites.