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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: psl on 16 February 2008, 17:40:48
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just been sent this broad band speed test, it's nice and easy to read.
http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/
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thats the best tester ive come across yet !!!
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thats what I thought :y
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mine was..
download speed= 2078kbps
upload speed= 246kbps
i don't know if that's good tbh, i'm not that technically minded ;D
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| Attempt | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Download speed (kbps) | 545 | 307 | 341 |
| Upload speed (kbps) | 368 | 367 | 365 |
Which is quite frankly pants!
The reason why......crap NTL server which we were moved onto after virgin were taken over by them!
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download 2069 upload 246...iz that good or bad???? :-/
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Down 1010
Up 234
As asked how do you know whether it is good/bad
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It depends what speed you pay for.
I pay for an 8M connection which, according to my router I have, but thanks to a naff ex-NTL server, I dont get any where near that download speed.
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3768 Kbs, thats not bad for a Vodafone Datacard.
The site is a free web version of www.Speedtest.net you can host it for free on your own web site, might be a idea for OOF.
zirk
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3940 kbps down
245 kbps up
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3768 Kbs, thats not bad for a Vodafone Datacard.
The site is a free web version of www.Speedtest.net you can host it for free on your own web site, might be a idea for OOF.
zirk
so it is, been using that one for ages :y
managed 3390kbps download & 360kbps upload tonight
ok but not great considering we still get charged for "up to" 8mb >:(
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3768 Kbs, thats not bad for a Vodafone Datacard.
The site is a free web version of www.Speedtest.net you can host it for free on your own web site, might be a idea for OOF.
zirk
so it is, been using that one for ages :y
managed 3390kbps download & 360kbps upload tonight
ok but not great considering we still get charged for "up to" 8mb >:(
True, the 7.5 Mb is mainly in Central London and Airports, but should be rolled out in High Population Areas latter this year.
Still not bad for £15 a month though.
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3768 Kbs, thats not bad for a Vodafone Datacard.
The site is a free web version of www.Speedtest.net you can host it for free on your own web site, might be a idea for OOF.
zirk
so it is, been using that one for ages :y
managed 3390kbps download & 360kbps upload tonight
ok but not great considering we still get charged for "up to" 8mb >:(
True, the 7.5 Mb is mainly in Central London and Airports, but should be rolled out in High Population Areas latter this year.
Still not bad for £15 a month though.
true but my BT home hub manager still says i'm getting 4400kbps
not like Bt to lie ;)
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Remember, you pay for the bandwidth of the pipe (i.e. 8mb), at no point do they commit to actualy send 8mb down said pipe....
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Down: 5986
Up: 989
Not bad with BT 8MB connection
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Hi
I pay 14.99 per month for up to 8mb speeds, did 3 tests the results are:
5419kbps download 365kbps upload
5415kbps download 325kbps upload
5393kbps download 365kbps upload
Think I am reasonably happy with that.
Mike
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Remember, you pay for the bandwidth of the pipe (i.e. 8mb), at no point do they commit to actualy send 8mb down said pipe....
Yea, but the Vodafone Broadband Signal comes through the window! from the nearest Radio Site, so if they tell you its XYZ Mbps then it should be XYZ.
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Down: 5986
Up: 989
Not bad with BT 8MB connection
yes very good :y
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Down 6076
up 546
i pay for the 6mb connection, so i am very happy :D :D
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I can't get either of my lines quiet enough to do a meaningful test.
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BT 8Mb
5893 Download 387 Upload
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wow thats moving a bit for an old man like you ::) ::)
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wow thats moving a bit for an old man like you ::) ::)
You wanna see my download speed on the bog ;)
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wow thats moving a bit for an old man like you ::) ::)
You wanna see my download speed on the bog ;)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :y
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Virgin 8mb
Download 583 :o
Up 362
Can't wait till April till I can change
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Virgin 8mb
Download 583 :o
Up 362
Can't wait till April till I can change
I knew you were slow posting but I thought that was just because you were a bit backward ;D ;D ;D
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Virgin 8mb
Download 583 :o
Up 362
Can't wait till April till I can change
I knew you were slow posting but I thought that was just because you were a bit backward ;D ;D ;D
A lot ;)
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9:33 STMO Wrote
9:57 Elite Pete wrote
I rest my case. ;D
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9:33 STMO Wrote
9:57 Elite Pete wrote
I rest my case. ;D
Getting too heavy for you is it Grandad, get the nice nurse lady to help you. ;D
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9:33 STMO Wrote
9:57 Elite Pete wrote
I rest my case. ;D
Getting too heavy for you is it Grandad, get the nice nurse lady to help you. ;D
Keep up John, keep up
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9:33 STMO Wrote
9:57 Elite Pete wrote
I rest my case. ;D
Getting too heavy for you is it Grandad, get the nice nurse lady to help you. ;D
Keep up John, keep up
Have they given you your Horlicks and mogadon yet?
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9:33 STMO Wrote
9:57 Elite Pete wrote
I rest my case. ;D
Getting too heavy for you is it Grandad, get the nice nurse lady to help you. ;D
Keep up John, keep up
Have they given you your Horlicks and mogadon yet?
It's Saturday! Guinness and viagra night.
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9:33 STMO Wrote
9:57 Elite Pete wrote
I rest my case. ;D
Getting too heavy for you is it Grandad, get the nice nurse lady to help you. ;D
Keep up John, keep up
Have they given you your Horlicks and mogadon yet?
It's Saturday! Guinness and viagra night.
That'll be to stop you rolling out of bed then. ;D ;D
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9:33 STMO Wrote
9:57 Elite Pete wrote
I rest my case. ;D
Getting too heavy for you is it Grandad, get the nice nurse lady to help you. ;D
Keep up John, keep up
Have they given you your Horlicks and mogadon yet?
It's Saturday! Guinness and viagra night.
That'll be to stop you rolling out of bed then. ;D ;D
My cot has sides :y
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9:33 STMO Wrote
9:57 Elite Pete wrote
I rest my case. ;D
Getting too heavy for you is it Grandad, get the nice nurse lady to help you. ;D
Keep up John, keep up
Have they given you your Horlicks and mogadon yet?
It's Saturday! Guinness and viagra night.
That'll be to stop you rolling out of bed then. ;D ;D
My cot has sides :y
So you can throw your teddy out I assume.
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9:33 STMO Wrote
9:57 Elite Pete wrote
I rest my case. ;D
Getting too heavy for you is it Grandad, get the nice nurse lady to help you. ;D
Keep up John, keep up
Have they given you your Horlicks and mogadon yet?
It's Saturday! Guinness and viagra night.
That'll be to stop you rolling out of bed then. ;D ;D
My cot has sides :y
So you can throw your teddy out I assume.
LMAO :y :y :y
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Try http://www.speedtester.bt.com/
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. . . . or http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html
:y
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OH dear,
the first test gave 607K/152K, the BT test gives an error(surprise!), and the last one gives 411K/78K. This is, err, cr*p. Its has got a lot worse recently, is this due to BT home hub and BBC replay stuff soaking up available bandwidth ?
Ken
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Remember, you pay for the bandwidth of the pipe (i.e. 8mb), at no point do they commit to actualy send 8mb down said pipe....
Yea, but the Vodafone Broadband Signal comes through the window! from the nearest Radio Site, so if they tell you its XYZ Mbps then it should be XYZ.
Makes no odds, the radio setups do much the same as wifi, they back the speed off as the signal quality drops (BER rises).
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OH dear,
the first test gave 607K/152K, the BT test gives an error(surprise!), and the last one gives 411K/78K. This is, err, cr*p. Its has got a lot worse recently, is this due to BT home hub and BBC replay stuff soaking up available bandwidth ?
Ken
Quite possibly although in theory video on demand can be sent without a massive server over head as the actual amount of requests once its running tends to be pretty small.
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1.1km from tel ex,
BT 6.7m down 876k up..
Pretty pleased with that... 8-)
Sometimes though, being a Max product, i.e. rate adaptive... have had less than 1m down!!!!!!!! :'(
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Here are my results (I am on a 2Mb service from Nildram)
Download Speed: 1922 kbps (240.3 KB/sec ) Upload Speed: 244 kbps (30.5 KB/sec )
Quite happy with that.
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Hi,
19386 Download
743 Upload
On 20Mb virgin connection :y
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Remember, you pay for the bandwidth of the pipe (i.e. 8mb), at no point do they commit to actualy send 8mb down said pipe....
Yea, but the Vodafone Broadband Signal comes through the window! from the nearest Radio Site, so if they tell you its XYZ Mbps then it should be XYZ.
Makes no odds, the radio setups do much the same as wifi, they back the speed off as the signal quality drops (BER rises).
No, sorry disagree, The whole idea of, when it was lanched GPRS (2.5G, 56kbps) was it was a Radio signal version of ISDN, so you ever get it or not. when 3G was lanched (384kbps) it was on a different carrier signal, so again you get it or you revert back to 2.5G (56kbps). Now we have 3.5G (HSDPA) which is a compressed version of 3G but still on a different carrier (Vodafone currently run a Max of 7.2Mbps) but its still Radio ISDN (although they call it Broadband), the point is, that thier advartising 7.2 Mbps but only supplying 3.5 Mbps, if the signal is crap it will revert back to a lower carrier of 3g or worse case gprs (2.5G).
Unlike WiFi which sets its speed on error bit checking which it feels comfortable with.
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Remember, you pay for the bandwidth of the pipe (i.e. 8mb), at no point do they commit to actualy send 8mb down said pipe....
Yea, but the Vodafone Broadband Signal comes through the window! from the nearest Radio Site, so if they tell you its XYZ Mbps then it should be XYZ.
Makes no odds, the radio setups do much the same as wifi, they back the speed off as the signal quality drops (BER rises).
No, sorry disagree, The whole idea of, when it was lanched GPRS (2.5G, 56kbps) was it was a Radio signal version of ISDN, so you ever get it or not. when 3G was lanched (384kbps) it was on a different carrier signal, so again you get it or you revert back to 2.5G (56kbps). Now we have 3.5G (HSDPA) which is a compressed version of 3G but still on a different carrier (Vodafone currently run a Max of 7.2Mbps) but its still Radio ISDN (although they call it Broadband), the point is, that thier advartising 7.2 Mbps but only supplying 3.5 Mbps, if the signal is crap it will revert back to a lower carrier of 3g or worse case gprs (2.5G).
Unlike WiFi which sets its speed on error bit checking which it feels comfortable with.
In all of these scenarios the connection the mobile network provides is packet switched rather than circuit switched so the analogy with ISDN is not quite accurate.
The network is contended and, whilst the network will negotiate a quality of service with you when you establish a session it doesn't allocate any resources to you for the duration of that session, so you are still competing with other users for the bandwidth available to the mobile network. The mobile network is responsible for allocating those resources dynamically and it will do so based on the amount of data queued and the quality of service to which a user is subscribed.
If you encounter bad signal conditions there is no alternative but to back off the bandwidth in order to provide a continued connection and this is achieved not necessarily by dropping back to a different technology but switching to a more robust form of channel coding that adds redundancy and therefore reduces the throughput.
In short, the situation with a mobile "broadband" conenction is just the same as with wired. You are being sold a theoretical throughput and are getting a practical throughput that will be somewhere between zero and the theoretical throughput.
Kevin
Edited to say: Of course, you can have a circuit switched conenction over a mobile network but 99% of internet access through mobile networks is packet switched.
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Remember, you pay for the bandwidth of the pipe (i.e. 8mb), at no point do they commit to actualy send 8mb down said pipe....
Yea, but the Vodafone Broadband Signal comes through the window! from the nearest Radio Site, so if they tell you its XYZ Mbps then it should be XYZ.
Makes no odds, the radio setups do much the same as wifi, they back the speed off as the signal quality drops (BER rises).
No, sorry disagree, The whole idea of, when it was lanched GPRS (2.5G, 56kbps) was it was a Radio signal version of ISDN, so you ever get it or not. when 3G was lanched (384kbps) it was on a different carrier signal, so again you get it or you revert back to 2.5G (56kbps). Now we have 3.5G (HSDPA) which is a compressed version of 3G but still on a different carrier (Vodafone currently run a Max of 7.2Mbps) but its still Radio ISDN (although they call it Broadband), the point is, that thier advartising 7.2 Mbps but only supplying 3.5 Mbps, if the signal is crap it will revert back to a lower carrier of 3g or worse case gprs (2.5G).
Unlike WiFi which sets its speed on error bit checking which it feels comfortable with.
In all of these scenarios the connection the mobile network provides is packet switched rather than circuit switched so the analogy with ISDN is not quite accurate.
The network is contended and, whilst the network will negotiate a quality of service with you when you establish a session it doesn't allocate any resources to you for the duration of that session, so you are still competing with other users for the bandwidth available to the mobile network. The mobile network is responsible for allocating those resources dynamically and it will do so based on the amount of data queued and the quality of service to which a user is subscribed.
If you encounter bad signal conditions there is no alternative but to back off the bandwidth in order to provide a continued connection and this is achieved not necessarily by dropping back to a different technology but switching to a more robust form of channel coding that adds redundancy and therefore reduces the throughput.
In short, the situation with a mobile "broadband" conenction is just the same as with wired. You are being sold a theoretical throughput and are getting a practical throughput that will be somewhere between zero and the theoretical throughput.
Kevin
Edited to say: Of course, you can have a circuit switched conenction over a mobile network but 99% of internet access through mobile networks is packet switched.
Correct.....and the 3G setups in the uk to date are mostly packet based (although not all as it is dependent on what local services are available at the pole!).
You would also be surprised at how small the back haul link is that is provided to the base stations, were not talking Gb's so its quickly eaten into by mobile based broadband.
And then you still have the usual server based bottle neck (which its often the over riding factor)
And, the base station will back your link off, particularly if there are other subscribers of similar priority all contending for bandwidth off the same mast!
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Just ran this test with a Vrigin 20 meg connection.
19696 download with a 683 upload.
Seems quite nippy, does that.... :y
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6323 down
234 up
37ms ping to maidenhead
well happy with this from orange home :y
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2415 download
381 upload
2mb from orange