OT : Download speeds

[True Blue]

I've got broadband with NTl and it's supposed to be 600 kb/s. I don't think I'm actually getting anywhere near this. For instance when I download an attachment from this site, it usually downloads at about 13 - 15 kb/s and I think it should be more like 60.

What kind of download speeds is everyone else getting on broadband?

Cheers
____________________
Past >>>> Honda NSR 125 >>>> Suzuki GSXR 600 K1 >>>> Suzuki GSXR 600 K4 >>>>Kawasaki Z1000 DAF >>>>Suzuki RMZ 250 >>>> Current >>>> KTM Superduke R 1290 >>>>

[MitoIslander]

Yep, you're right,

I was on that service in my old house, its errr...Sh!t to say the least.

BT 512kb/s and average DL of about 50k/s

Get rid of NTL & Cable internet all together, its too slow.

try: https://www.nthell.co.uk

Jay

[True Blue]

Conning bastards

I've got an engineer coming out on Friday. Besides the fact it's an apparently slow connection. It's only working intermittently at the moment.

I'll chin the engineer about the slow speed as well. He's not getting out the house alive till it's fixed
____________________
Past >>>> Honda NSR 125 >>>> Suzuki GSXR 600 K1 >>>> Suzuki GSXR 600 K4 >>>>Kawasaki Z1000 DAF >>>>Suzuki RMZ 250 >>>> Current >>>> KTM Superduke R 1290 >>>>

[MitoIslander]

Careful, those guys charge by the hour, i knew one that was rolling in money, they'll blame your computer (they always do)

[True Blue]

They charge me 1 penny and they will be finding themselves disconnecting my broadband and my phone line
____________________
Past >>>> Honda NSR 125 >>>> Suzuki GSXR 600 K1 >>>> Suzuki GSXR 600 K4 >>>>Kawasaki Z1000 DAF >>>>Suzuki RMZ 250 >>>> Current >>>> KTM Superduke R 1290 >>>>

[Syfoon]

Blugh, cable internet.

Your bandwidth is shared between your street or neighbourhood, usually this causes the horrid slow speeds.

Try it at 4am, if you don't hit 40+kb, give Mister NTL Engineer a kick in the face

My 512kb BTOpenworld DSL gives me 60kb tops downloading, 600kb cap on cable won't be much more... unless you feel criminal and uncap it...
____________________
Not here...

[True Blue]

[Mattastic]

www.pipex.com

Fantastic for me, ASDL, 50:1 ratio I think
____________________
Too skint to buy a bike

[MitoIslander]

pipex are expensive,

Plus i have personal reasons on not using them

i set their office network up in Cambridge, they didn't pay me right, and it took a long time to get all the money out of them!

[McJamweasel]

[baldy]

BT DSL connection is slow. I have it and it really bakes my head when downloading.
____________________
One day i will rule the world, just not today.

[Dr Nick]

I've been with demon for nearly 2 years now, not one problem . Average download speed of 60kbps. I reccomend them.


www.demon.net
____________________
is that it

[AcIdBuRnZ]

The advertised speed of any connection is always impossible to actually achieve, it only means that in 'perfect' conditions, that is the speed you would be capable of download\upload at (on a LAN, for example).

Download speeds of 30-60Kbps are the norm.

BUT REMEMBER THE BIGGEST FACTOR WILL BE THE SERVER\LOCATION YOU ARE DOWNLOADING FROM!!!

For example, a large company with a s***hot server in the next town and a fast connection will give faster downloads than a guy hosting a site from his own machine in Singapore.

It does not matter 2 hoots what speed you can download at if the server you are downloading from can only upload to you at 10Kbps!!!

If your download speed is higher than the server's upload speed, then you will download at the max upload speed of the server.

If your speed is slower than the server, you will download at your max download speed.

Geddit?

Also, bare in mind that there are millions of outside factors in play when download across the Internet (firewall software etc.)

Hope this helps
Mark
____________________
Past: Honda NSR125R >> Kawasaki ER-5a2 >> Kawasaki ZZR-600e1 >> Suzuki GSXR-750Y >> Honda VTR 1000 Firestorm
"Chickity China the Chinese Chicken..."

[kev]

I've got the ntl one and I can download from websites at an average of about 85 and its sometimes a bit higher.
____________________
20:02:36 Jammy-R6: any holes a goal
20:02:48 kev: even if its a hairy mans arse
20:02:56 Jammy-R6: hell yes

[John]

I've got NTL 1mbit.

It's pretty crappy indeed. When it works, it works nicely, and speeds are around 120kB/s.

However- this is NTL we are talking about, so to be completely honest it doesn't work very often really.
____________________
TT600 neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeowwww!

[kev]

Everybody is always bitching on about ntl but I have never had a problem with it.

maybe i'm just lucky or maybe I haven't had it long enough.
____________________
20:02:36 Jammy-R6: any holes a goal
20:02:48 kev: even if its a hairy mans arse
20:02:56 Jammy-R6: hell yes

[Milo]

I'm on Virgin (no contract) which gives me an actual connection speed of 576/288.
I get average download speeds of 58-62 but it has remained constant at 72 a few times. I ca upload at 28-32 which seems a bit high but I'm not complaining! My firewall gives me this data so it's not windows being weird and giving inaccurate figures.

Bulldog is good - £25 for 512 on peak, 1Mb off peak. Another fiver and you can double that off peak speed.
Only reason I'm not with them is because I don't know how long I'll be living where I am.
____________________
Shaft drives rule.

[JimboJ]

Everybody bitches about NTL cos they think they're good doing what everyone else says joining in. Everyone I know in my area who has NTL NEVER had a problem with broadband by the sounds of it they may have you switched on for the 150K service although the downloads are a little slow even for that.

I had 600K got 85, then I got 1MB and had around 125kb/s. With cable you don't have a contention ratio like BT so it should be better. We are currently on Bulldog dsl 2MB and it's fine, only the usual BT installation problems.

Just ring them up and get them to fix it. Plus you know that your download speed isnt always max it depends on the server you download from? I assume this is from more than one server?

James
____________________
[00:42] <NSR-Andy> which one's the missionary position
[00:42] <NSR-Andy> i've heard it's good
[9:42pm] <Shaun> you came first mike | <Shaun> yes gav, because I really want to fuck you

[MarJay]

[Mattastic]

[McJamweasel]

[mr jamez]

[JimboJ]

Fibre Vs Copper

James
____________________
[00:42] <NSR-Andy> which one's the missionary position
[00:42] <NSR-Andy> i've heard it's good
[9:42pm] <Shaun> you came first mike | <Shaun> yes gav, because I really want to fuck you

[mr jamez]

[JimboJ]

Where I used to live which was near as dammit 3 miles away from the NTL exchange it was a fibre line (I was told all the way to the street then copper) either way I've had both and NTL wins each time. so MEH

James
____________________
[00:42] <NSR-Andy> which one's the missionary position
[00:42] <NSR-Andy> i've heard it's good
[9:42pm] <Shaun> you came first mike | <Shaun> yes gav, because I really want to fuck you