Upgraded my broadband today...

4x4_Gav · 28-02-2011, 20:56

Had 20Meg Cable until now with Virgin Media, decided to upgrade to 50Meg...

Look at this sh!t....

I now download at 6MB/s lol rock on!!

clivvy · 28-02-2011, 21:06

sweeeet!!! nice upload speed, max will be 2Mb i think at the moment, but im sure I heard they were upping that again later this year??

4x4_Gav · 28-02-2011, 21:39

Yup, well they are bringing out 100 Meg lol

briggie · 28-02-2011, 21:41

4x4_Gav · 28-02-2011, 21:44

Weakling.... lol

briggie · 28-02-2011, 21:46

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Originally Posted by 4x4_Gav

Weakling.... lol

better upload than yours

sp00k · 28-02-2011, 22:02

Been on 50meg for a yr now and never really regretted it.

28-02-2011, 22:06

dunno what it all means though lol!

Fez_uk · 28-02-2011, 22:07

But I have better green lanes here and basicly no crime.

zippy656 · 28-02-2011, 22:24

ok, so WHATS it mean then??

lacroupade · 28-02-2011, 22:24

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Originally Posted by jace

dunno what it all means though lol!

It actually means feck all. Doing a speed check is the ONLY time you'll see your max download capability as its cutting out nearly all latency and only sending a tiny amount of data from which it extrapolates your 'speed'.

Most web pages max at about 1Mb/s and if you add in interrnet latency, database lookups, throttling and all the other garbage, you'll never get anywhere near the advertised service.

Because the speed test is so blatantly fraudulent the only real way to check the speed of a big download.

For example, I pay for 10Mb and the fastest download speed I can get anywhere (films from various sites) is around 700kb/s with just one download running and nothing else working.

Its a dirty great big con. Sorry.

28-02-2011, 22:47

i did mine with this site open,sons ps3 on some mad war game,mrs on her netbook (facebook what else lol) and sons laptop running ebay (hes selling mad war game cheats lol) i know when hes got films downloading it chuggs esp if limewires his choice of the day!
going over to this bt infiniti soon

briggie · 28-02-2011, 22:50

try this site .... gives a lot more info

http://myspeed.visualware.com/index.php

lacroupade · 28-02-2011, 23:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by briggie

try this site .... gives a lot more info

http://myspeed.visualware.com/index.php

Does it?

Not being funny but as I said, All it does is send a tiny amount of data to a server that does nothing but 'speed' tests. It doesn't send 100Mb with a 100Mb link for example, just enough (a few dozen Kb if you're lucky) so that it can extrapolate what you could send to that server if all the other restrictions weren't there.

Doesn't escape the fact that Gav will never download anything at 50Mb or anywhere near it.

As Jace says, great if you want more people connected, but in reality a 10Mb service that works to its full capacity would be under-utilised by a single user.

clivvy · 28-02-2011, 23:06

also depends on the contention ratio a lot, and the remote servers upoad ability and load at the time, theres so much to consider, but speed test sites are meant as a guide, and they arent real world. The best real world download I can get is just short of 2Meg (my max) via torrents or Microsoft.

28-02-2011, 20:56	#1
4x4_Gav Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Nottinghamshire Vehicle: Nissan Terrano II 2.7 TDI Posts: 480	Upgraded my broadband today... Had 20Meg Cable until now with Virgin Media, decided to upgrade to 50Meg... Look at this sh!t.... I now download at 6MB/s lol rock on!!

28-02-2011, 21:06	#2
clivvy Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Huddersfield Vehicle: Terrano 03 LWB Posts: 6,947	sweeeet!!! nice upload speed, max will be 2Mb i think at the moment, but im sure I heard they were upping that again later this year??

28-02-2011, 21:39	#3
4x4_Gav Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Nottinghamshire Vehicle: Nissan Terrano II 2.7 TDI Posts: 480	Yup, well they are bringing out 100 Meg lol

28-02-2011, 21:41	#4
briggie Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: peoples democratic republic of west yorkshire Vehicle: " alice " Posts: 10,473

28-02-2011, 21:44	#5
4x4_Gav Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Nottinghamshire Vehicle: Nissan Terrano II 2.7 TDI Posts: 480	Weakling.... lol

28-02-2011, 22:02	#7
sp00k Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Bristol Vehicle: Terrano TDi 1999 Posts: 237	Been on 50meg for a yr now and never really regretted it.

28-02-2011, 22:06	#8
jace Guest Posts: n/a	dunno what it all means though lol!

28-02-2011, 22:07	#9
Fez_uk Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Mid-Wales Vehicle: Maverick 2.7 - Patrol 4.2 Posts: 5,645	But I have better green lanes here and basicly no crime.

28-02-2011, 22:24	#10
zippy656 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Devizes Wiltshire Vehicle: Nissan Note Ntec 1.5 Posts: 14,138	ok, so WHATS it mean then??

28-02-2011, 22:47	#12
jace Guest Posts: n/a	i did mine with this site open,sons ps3 on some mad war game,mrs on her netbook (facebook what else lol) and sons laptop running ebay (hes selling mad war game cheats lol) i know when hes got films downloading it chuggs esp if limewires his choice of the day! going over to this bt infiniti soon

28-02-2011, 22:50	#13
briggie Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: peoples democratic republic of west yorkshire Vehicle: " alice " Posts: 10,473	try this site .... gives a lot more info http://myspeed.visualware.com/index.php

28-02-2011, 23:06	#15
clivvy Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Huddersfield Vehicle: Terrano 03 LWB Posts: 6,947	also depends on the contention ratio a lot, and the remote servers upoad ability and load at the time, theres so much to consider, but speed test sites are meant as a guide, and they arent real world. The best real world download I can get is just short of 2Meg (my max) via torrents or Microsoft.