How do I improve this (would the wireless-router being in another room be part of the problem)?
[Edited on 30/1/10 by scootz]
Good afternoon educated one's!
How do I establish what internet speed I'm getting?
I'm using a Mac if that makes a difference.
Ta muchly!
http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk
[Edited on 30.01.2010 by Humbug]
Cheers guys...
Download = 0.60 mb/s
Upload = 0.37mb/s
Are these decent figures (sorry not computer-minded)?
I can answer my own question (Googled it)... the average UK speed is 3.6mb/s
How do I improve this (would the wireless-router being in another room be part of the problem)?
[Edited on 30/1/10 by scootz]
Not really I'm 6.42 down .45 up
Cheers,
Bob
Has all telephone gear got a filter on including Skybox.
Cheers,
Bob
im 1.95 down,
ways to improve it are by having a wired link, or being close to router if wireless, changing your service provider and moving into the centre of a
city (distance from and number of users on the "exchange" are key factors)
quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Cheers guys...
Download = 0.60 mb/s
Upload = 0.37mb/s
Are these decent figures (sorry not computer-minded)?
Nope... 0.6 
Off to get an ethernet cable and plug-in to see if that improves things!
I'm with Be Unlimited and due to the distance I am from the exchange I'm limited to 11mbps down and 1.1 mbps up. That's on their 24mbps
option.
If I had standard 8mbps then I would expect around 5 mbps down and 0.5 mbps up with a decent connection at least.
seems slow!! mine is 9.82 and 0.85, though it is supposed to be 20mb broadband
Hard connection makes no difference
Scootz run this LINKY and plug your modem into the master socket closest to where it comes into
your property
Then take the other phones off the line.
Run the speedtest then put the phones back one at a time. rerunning test each time.
This may id whats causing slow speeds
i get:
9.26Mb/s down
0.48Mb/s up
Thats with Virgin 10Mb broadband 
You're not with Sky on their SkyConnect package are you, if you are then that pretty good speed for that piece of sh1te they call a broadband
service.
Cheers
Rich
No... on BT Total Broadband.
Thanks for that tip Mango - will give it a go later!
Ah... it's Windows only - thanks for the link though!
There are alot of things that can make your speed slow/fast.
number of users the contention ratio is 50/1 so thats up to 50 people using the same connection to the internet as you.
now if all of them are heavy internet users you will suffer too.
distance from the exchange. if you are to far away you wont get a good service at all.
here is a link to the BT postcode speed check. Just type in your postcode and get the speed you can expect at max.
http://www.btbroadbandinformation.com/bt-postcode-checker/
this is only a guide as for my postcode it says 4.5Meg but I can only get 3.5Meg max.
Also try rebooting your router this can help some times.
[img][/img]
If it helps any... When I was with BT Total BB I was forever on the phone trying to get them to sort out why the speed was so slow. They always blamed
my equipment or my internal phone wiring. They didn't believe I was plugged into the master socket.
I sacked them off in the end and went to Virgin. Anytime I check the speed now I'm getting what I'm paying for.
Moral of the story, sack off BT and go elswhere.
That looks like the best you will get unless you go fibre optic im affraid.
quote:
Originally posted by scootz
[img][/img]
BT control nearly everything via land line so swapping provider wont help in most situations. Hull is a different story because of Crapkom but for the
most the only way to speed up is fibre.
quote:
Originally posted by speed8
If it helps any... When I was with BT Total BB I was forever on the phone trying to get them to sort out why the speed was so slow. They always blamed my equipment or my internal phone wiring. They didn't believe I was plugged into the master socket.
I sacked them off in the end and went to Virgin. Anytime I check the speed now I'm getting what I'm paying for.
Moral of the story, sack off BT and go elswhere.
Go here http://samknows.com/broadband/search.php type your full Tel number in and see if any other provider is in your exchange.
Cheers,
Bob
ADSL is the poor brother to cable I'm afraid, it all depends on how far you are from the exchange, and other excuses 
I love my cable connection, I switched from ISDN almost 10 years ago and have no complaints in all that time.
I'm now on 20Mb, speedtest says I'm getting what I pay for 
your exchange seems really slow, do all your neighbours have same problem? thats assuming you have neighbours and not in middle of knowwhere!
im in a Norfolk village (which has a BT exchange though) came up with
Your exchange is ADSL enabled, and our initial check on your postcode indicates that your line should be able to have an ADSL broadband service that
provides a fixed line rate up to 2Mbps.
Our check also indicates that your line currently supports a potential ADSL Max broadband line rate of 5.5Mbps or greater.
If you get a Meg, be happy. Here in this glorious locale of the undead (a part of Cornwall), Broadband isn't available.
67.91 down
15.92 up
Do i win??
9.9mb/s on virgin media 10 meg broardband
quote:
Originally posted by sprouts-car
67.91 down
15.92 up
Do i win??
Hmmm, the dongle must be on a "work" break cos it doesn't feel that fast. (It took nearly 2 minutes to bring up the preview of this
post)
Got Virgin 20mb at home though, and more often than not it registers 15meg+ (unless someone's playing Call of Duty!)