Your internet connection speed

[Mark]

What speed are you getting? By that I mean the speed you are actually getting, not what your provider tells you that you are getting!

http://www.speedtest.net/ is a good way of checking - not sure if that works outside the UK?

I've been reconfiguring our network and moving the wifi point so I've been checking my connection speed. On my phone I get 10Mbps next to the router, the same 10Mbps downstairs and around 6Mbps on the other side of the house - although the laptop (also on wifi) gets 11Mbps in the same location!

This is connected through ADSL and Sky internet 20Mbps package.

I literally live across the road from the exchange, however I was at my inlaws house yesterday and they have exactly the same Sky package but they only get around 2Mbps

[Dave B]

Paying for 10Mbps with Virgin (cable), just done a test via wi-fi and it says 9.89 so I can't be too unhappy!

Connecting the phone via the same wifi gives 7.47, and via O2 a rather dismal 3.65.

[Daniel]

Paying for up to 8 and we get just under 5

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1235418469.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Advertised as getting 8Mb/s but only getting 6.77Mb/s.

[MrJan]

Don't know what it's supposed to be as at work but came up as 3.69mbps. From the times that I've done tests before I don't think that's much different to what I get at home (where it's supposed to be up to 8). Mind you at home I have wireless and it's a fair way from the router etc.

[GridGirl]

I just did the test and got 0.88mbps which is woeful. I think we usually get just under 2Mb/s which is still awful. I would like to downgrade our internet package as it just isnt worth it but apparently I'm not allowed as we apparently need unlimited broadband for uploading things to flickr etc. Grrrrr :mad:

[555-04Q2]

We get one speed...slow!

[CNR]

512kb get 55kb download at best

[pino]

9.65 Mb/s but I only pay for 6 :eek:

[markabilly]

43.15mbsec download;
33.13 mbsec upload

Ping is 10ms (whatever that is)

Fiber optic from verizon; one line currently carries 1 telephone, 4 computers with internet conections (not all operating right now); high def tv line which is also up and running the hi-def weather channel on the same line that I just did the test.

Slowest connection that I get on the net is to this forum. Sometimes it takes forever.......(so it seems)

think I will turn tv to one of the movie channels and see any different result.

[Alexamateo]

Ping 9 ms Download 28.17 Mbps Upload 9.28 Mbps

Please don't hate me! :D

[markabilly]

32.87 up load;
everything else was the same......with HBO playing away

[markabilly]

everything off but computer. Speed on download is 43.92; upload is the same (33.15); 10 is the ping

Home connection

[Mark]

For those getting quick speeds, can you clarify is that's at home or at your workplace (if they are not the same thing!) and what sort of connection it is. At work at York University my connection speed is 86Mbps.

[markabilly]

45.15 download with everything unplugged

hit the button for a new server, and it produced a different result when it changed servers:
41.15 download
27.45 for upload (down from about 33 upload)

this second server seems to be about 4 to 5 mbper sec slower

all at home with fiber optic

==============================================

Closed out, and downloaded a completely new test

it connected with a server that is now 225 miles from my house (other tests were less than 20), and speed was 45.15 download; upload was 39.45 mbs (fastest upload by far)

[Steve Boyd]

At home on Virgin I've just got 10.06Mbps download & 0.37Mbps upload on a 10Mb service with a wired connection.
Away from home with a Huawei 3G 3.5Mbps dongle on T-Mobile I've seen 1800kbps in a 3G cell down to intermittent 2kbps (yes - 5 times slower than a fax modem!!) a few times in congested 2G cells as reported by the connection monitoring application that came with the package.

[Valve Bounce]

What speed are you getting? By that I mean the speed you are actually getting, not what your provider tells you that you are getting!

http://www.speedtest.net/ is a good way of checking - not sure if that works outside the UK?

I've been reconfiguring our network and moving the wifi point so I've been checking my connection speed. On my phone I get 10Mbps next to the router, the same 10Mbps downstairs and around 6Mbps on the other side of the house - although the laptop (also on wifi) gets 11Mbps in the same location!

This is connected through ADSL and Sky internet 20Mbps package.

I literally live across the road from the exchange, however I was at my inlaws house yesterday and they have exactly the same Sky package but they only get around 2Mbps

This Regclean is one of those programs that pisses me off no end. They offer to give you a free scan, then after you download the program and run it, it tells you that you have zillions of problems with your registry, and that unless you pay them for the program, it will only fix a couple of the faults. Why not just download CCleaner and run that instead?

[airshifter]

Paying for up to 8 and we get just under 5

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1235418469.png (http://www.speedtest.net)


You're way too close to get decent speeds apparently. From about 3500 miles farther away....

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1236824327.png


Upload speed blows chunks at this distance. Just about anything in North America gets about 25/25 up or down, and often better down.

Fiber to the house is sweet!

[Mark]

This Regclean is one of those programs that pisses me off no end. They offer to give you a free scan, then after you download the program and run it, it tells you that you have zillions of problems with your registry, and that unless you pay them for the program, it will only fix a couple of the faults. Why not just download CCleaner and run that instead?

What are you talking about?

[Daniel]

What are you talking about?

Regclean obviously advertise on the site, Valvebounce..... STOP INSTALLING CRAP ON YOUR PC!!!!!!!!!!!

[Valve Bounce]

Regclean obviously advertise on the site, Valvebounce..... STOP INSTALLING CRAP ON YOUR PC!!!!!!!!!!!

Ya got me there. Then when I found out what was happening, I uninstalled it. :(

My Bad!!!!!!!!!!

[martinbalmer]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1237156422.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[MrJan]

Paying for up to 8 and we get just under 5

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1235418469.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Same download for me but got 0.37 upload and 88ms ping. Likewise paying for 8mb but to get that score at 9pm surprised me tbh, seems much slower at times.

[Daniel]

I wouldn't be worried about the ping, it's purely a function of how far you are from the server :)

Here's some consistency! :)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1238074038.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Personally I'm quite happy with BT, I'm getting about the best I could expect at the distance I am from my exchange :up:

[Daniel]

You're way too close to get decent speeds apparently. From about 3500 miles farther away....

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1236824327.png


Upload speed blows chunks at this distance. Just about anything in North America gets about 25/25 up or down, and often better down.

Fiber to the house is sweet!

Fiber is indeed good :D That's a damn 1337 ping you've got there :) I play on some US servers in the US (Chicago I think) and I get a constant 120ms ping :)

[CaptainRaiden]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1238081631.png

This is a new internet connection, which is slower than my last one, which was about 45 Mbps. What's weird is that the last ISP is also based in Romania, where I am right now, but whenever I ran the speed test on the speedtest.net website, it always showed the server to be at Mumbai, India. :confused: Also, I was able to buy games on Steam with the currency set to dollars. Ever since I changed to this new ISP, it shows the correct server, which is in Romania, and changed the currency in Steam to euros, which is crap because games are now more expensive. :mad:

Could it be because all my email addresses are India based, and that somehow changed my location for the older ISP? But I'm still using the same email addresses, and that doesn't seem to make any difference to this new ISP. Also, the Google ads I was getting in Yahoo mail and on the forum were all Indian with the old ISP, but now are Romanian with the new ISP. WTF?

[Mark]

I did the test from my phone last night, and got 4Mbps download, which I thought was pretty decent for a single bar of signal! But upload was 0.05Mbps - ouch!

[Mark]

Fiber is indeed good :D That's a damn 1337 ping you've got there :) I play on some US servers in the US (Chicago I think) and I get a constant 120ms ping :)

Ping at home is usually 90-100ms, which isn't great when it's just hauling across the UK. In reality it's probably going to London first.

Whereas on my Uni connection ping was 3ms!

[Garry Walker]

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[Jag_Warrior]

Guys and gals, I just found out that I now have another option for high speed internet in my area. Right now I'm on a satellite based system and it's not really suitable for streaming (long) video content. My question is, what is the minimum speed that I'll need for watching movies and TV shows without skips and jerkiness? My options are 1.5, 3.0 and 10.0 Mbps.

Thanks.

[Mark]

I'd say 3mbps but it depends on the quality of the video you want to watch and the real speed of your connection.

[Daniel]

Guys and gals, I just found out that I now have another option for high speed internet in my area. Right now I'm on a satellite based system and it's not really suitable for streaming (long) video content. My question is, what is the minimum speed that I'll need for watching movies and TV shows without skips and jerkiness? My options are 1.5, 3.0 and 10.0 Mbps.

Thanks.

For SD content 3 should do, for HD you'll want the 10 meg.

[Bob Riebe]

On four tests- the average down load was 12 and upload .86.

[cali]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1251781303.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

At my workplace, good enough :p

[wedge]

Supposed to be getting 8megs but actually getting 6 with my PC wired to the router

[Mark]

3G connection in Fort William 0.02Mbps, oh dear.

[Dave B]

I moved to O2 this year, can somebody remind me what 3G is? :(

[Daniel]

I moved to O2 this year, can somebody remind me what 3G is? :(

I'm with 3 and they seem to have 3g in areas where you wouldn't expect it and then in populated areas there's no 3g :P

[Mark]

Actually that wasn't accurate Fort William didn't have a 3G signal at all. It barely had a signal. You'd think it would be quite good as looking around you all you can see are mobile masts on the surrounding hills.

[Steve Boyd]

The trouble is that a 3G dongle will fall back to GPRS (2.5G) where there's no 3G service. GPRS seems to have a much lower priority than voice calls in 2.5G cells and the data cannot be slotted in between voice calls in the way it can in a 3G cell. I've seen data rates as low as short bursts of 2kbps with nothing in between (with a number of service providers) when I've been trying to deliver results updates to rally competitors. It's great before the rally convoy arrives but as soon as the cell fills with competitors, service crews & spectators all texting the person standing next to them & trying to send pictures to each other the data service drops to nothing. I recently spotted a place selling old 2G (not GPRS, so 14.4kbps makimum & pay by the second rather than the byte) PCMCIA cards for a tenner and was thinking of getting one to turn my PC into a fax machine for field results as the 3G service can be so unreliable when you aren't in a big city or next to a motorway.

[christophulus]

I moved to O2 this year, can somebody remind me what 3G is? :(

Same here, occasionally 3G flickers up at the top of my phone, but it only lasts a few seconds. It's all a big con!

OP: 2Mbps download speed on a good day, but it's always been pretty lousy. At least we have unlimited downloads though.

[Mark]

Yep. They are talking about 4G etc now when the existing coverage is still woeful.

[Big Ben]

39.67 Mbps download (while connected directly to the pipe, 20 via router)
4.45 Mbps upload

[Jag_Warrior]

Guys and gals, I just found out that I now have another option for high speed internet in my area. Right now I'm on a satellite based system and it's not really suitable for streaming (long) video content. My question is, what is the minimum speed that I'll need for watching movies and TV shows without skips and jerkiness? My options are 1.5, 3.0 and 10.0 Mbps.

Thanks.


I'd say 3mbps but it depends on the quality of the video you want to watch and the real speed of your connection.



For SD content 3 should do, for HD you'll want the 10 meg.

My Hughesnet modem died last week. After being told by a "nice" lady (biatch!) from India (in severely broken English) that I'd have to pay $125 for a tech to come to my house to tell me what I already knew (that the modem was dead), I elected to make a few calls. Turns out there was a DSL provider that I didn't know about. Long story short: I'm now on DSL: $15/mo cheaper than Hughesnet, 4x faster (D/L of 3.05 Mbps on 3 Mbps service, according to the test in the OP) and the usage is UNLIMITED! :bounce: I feel like I've now truly joined the modern age.

Thanks, fellows. Yep, 3 Mbps seems to be what I needed for streaming video. Although my area is scheduled for the 10Mbps upgrade within the next 6-12 months, I'm quite happy with this. I can actually watch long vids without skipping, hanging and constant buffering - or worrying that I'll exceed my 200 meg daily limit!!!

Also, a big thanks to "Jessica" from Mumbai (or where ever she was from) for p!ssing me off so bad that I was determined to find another service, even if I had to go back to dial-up. This is great.

[Eki]

Upload 8.06 Mbps
Download 8.74 Mbps

[Daniel]

My Hughesnet modem died last week. After being told by a "nice" lady (biatch!) from India (in severely broken English) that I'd have to pay $125 for a tech to come to my house to tell me what I already knew (that the modem was dead), I elected to make a few calls. Turns out there was a DSL provider that I didn't know about. Long story short: I'm now on DSL: $15/mo cheaper than Hughesnet, 4x faster (D/L of 3.05 Mbps on 3 Mbps service, according to the test in the OP) and the usage is UNLIMITED! :bounce: I feel like I've now truly joined the modern age.

Thanks, fellows. Yep, 3 Mbps seems to be what I needed for streaming video. Although my area is scheduled for the 10Mbps upgrade within the next 6-12 months, I'm quite happy with this. I can actually watch long vids without skipping, hanging and constant buffering - or worrying that I'll exceed my 200 meg daily limit!!!

Also, a big thanks to "Jessica" from Mumbai (or where ever she was from) for p!ssing me off so bad that I was determined to find another service, even if I had to go back to dial-up. This is great.

Good stuff :) A proper internet connection is what is required for most devices to work to their optimum these days :)

[Eki]

I'd have to pay $125 for a tech to come to my house to tell me what I already knew (that the modem was dead),
That sounds reasonable, if the tech would have to come all the way from India.

What speed are you getting? By that I mean the speed you are actually getting, not what your provider tells you that you are getting!

http://www.speedtest.net/ is a good way of checking - not sure if that works outside the UK?

I've been reconfiguring our network and moving the wifi point so I've been checking my connection speed. On my phone I get 10Mbps next to the router, the same 10Mbps downstairs and around 6Mbps on the other side of the house - although the laptop (also on wifi) gets 11Mbps in the same location!

This is connected through ADSL and Sky internet 20Mbps package.

I literally live across the road from the exchange, however I was at my inlaws house yesterday and they have exactly the same Sky package but they only get around 2Mbps

Hope the speed differ from its provider and based on server location it will exhibit the speed of your connection..see i use to check my speed from here http://www.scanmyspeed.com/ which gives my download speed:1.09Mbps and my upload speed:0.87Mbps

[harsha]

1 mbps

[MattL]

The speed I get at home is pretty poor - should be able to get 'up to 20Mbps', but we're a long way from the exchange and there's a lot of noise on the line as a result. When we moved here back in September last year, BT promised their Infinity fibre would be installed here by the end of March - now the forecast is September.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1310664317.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[Mark]

Where abouts are you living now Matt?

[MattL]

Near Beaconsfield, Bucks.