Upgraded my broadband today...

thats what i need is average connexion for every device,ps3,xbox360,wii,3 pcs 3 lappys phones etc some cabled some wireless bloody scary when u think how much a single phone line does!

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by clivvy

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.

If this was BarryBoys I'd be requesting a screen cap of even that LOL

[clivvy]

next time.....

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by clivvy

next time.....

No I believe you.....just tell me what torrents you're downloading you naughty boy

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

wow, well thats 50% faster than when i use another test

ie broadband speedchecker, to be fair thats saying 3008 kb/s
and upload of 501 kbs/s which suggests they are equal, perhaps
equally fudged. but nice suprise as whatever last time tried
was about 2Mb/s.

not great but fine for bit of surfing and this district doesnt get
cable.

bt doing fibre optics now,its same price as normal broadband at mo (till evryone jumps on it lol,then bang!)

[4x4_Gav]

Ok for those that dont understand connection speeds....

I will say it simply as I am tired lol..

There are 8 bits in a byte which means when calculating your broadband actual download speed you would devide your advertised connection speed by 8..

Example, my 50 meg broadband devided by 8 is 6.25

I get EXACTLY 6.25 MBPS download rate

Simples

I hope you now understand connections, so for those who say your dont actually get 50 Meg, you do, but due to how actual download speeds are calculated you wont actually download at 50 Meg. To download at an actual 50 Meg would mean you needed a 400 Meg connection

Gav

[clivvy]

Originally Posted by lacroupade

No I believe you.....just tell me what torrents you're downloading you naughty boy

well...I dont use anything special TBH, but i regularly get silly fast speeds. I use uTorrent client, and generally btJunkie to source my files.... Of course I always try to download from the high seed files.

[clivvy]

Originally Posted by 4x4_Gav

Ok for those that dont understand connection speeds....

I will say it simply as I am tired lol..

There are 8 bits in a byte which means when calculating your broadband actual download speed you would devide your advertised connection speed by 8..

Example, my 50 meg broadband devided by 8 is 6.25

I get EXACTLY 6.25 MBPS download rate

Simples

I hope you now understand connections, so for those who say your dont actually get 50 Meg, you do, but due to how actual download speeds are calculated you wont actually download at 50 Meg. To download at an actual 50 Meg would mean you needed a 400 Meg connection

Gav

exactly Gav, a 50Mbit connection like you have, is capable of downloading at 6.25 MegaBYTES/s. A 20Mbit will equate to 2.5MB and so on...

[zippy656]

here works speeds..

so a bit faster when at home??

[clivvy]

yeah thats quick, what is it a leased line or just afast broadband? upload on that is mental, looks like a leased line to me, we have several for our clients and at our main offices...!

[zippy656]

somthing like 200 pc's all linked to serviers in Manchester, we are down in Devizes

so a bit quicker than at home

[clivvy]

ah right, does sound like a leased line then, cant be 100% sure of course but thats what it looks like!

[zippy656]

im sure it is.. we have more than one line i know that much

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by clivvy

exactly Gav, a 50Mbit connection like you have, is capable of downloading at 6.25 MegaBYTES/s. A 20Mbit will equate to 2.5MB and so on...

Well you're both right of course, but its entirely theoretical due to the effects of ISP throttling, server restrictions, general internet latency yadda yadda yadda.

I mean put your hand on your heart and tell me your download speeds don't get seriously whacked from mid-afternoon onwards when the US gets online? Of course they do...bigtime as we all know, so in the real world, even if you do manage to achieve those download rates (which I seriously doubt in most cases unless you're downloading from a fat server with massive pipes and nobody else connected) it won't be for long.

I've spent the last 20 years listening to IT techs telling me what things 'should' be doing while I have to explain to the client why it isn't LOL