Sky Broadband Results up to 8mb - Thoughts Please

1984ReturnsForReal_2

8/18/2009 10:10:06 PM 424 Kbps 328 Kbps
8/18/2009 10:05:58 PM 344 Kbps 298 Kbps
8/18/2009 2:44:29 PM 592 Kbps 353 Kbps
8/18/2009 2:41:20 PM 560 Kbps 346 Kbps
8/18/2009 2:39:23 PM 832 Kbps 358 Kbps
8/18/2009 3:29:29 AM 1040 Kbps 311 Kbps
8/18/2009 2:33:11 AM 1128 Kbps 320 Kbps
8/18/2009 2:31:02 AM 936 Kbps 362 Kbps
8/18/2009 2:29:05 AM 552 Kbps 365 Kbps
8/17/2009 11:36:43 PM 312 Kbps 253 Kbps
8/17/2009 6:59:53 PM 424 Kbps 72 Kbps
8/17/2009 6:23:00 PM 384 Kbps 334 Kbps
8/17/2009 6:17:20 PM 344 Kbps 287 Kbps
8/17/2009 6:15:00 PM 464 Kbps 358 Kbps
8/17/2009 6:11:37 PM 440 Kbps 267 Kbps
8/16/2009 12:39:57 AM 1240 Kbps 321 Kbps
8/16/2009 12:38:29 AM 1328 Kbps 353 Kbps
8/16/2009 12:36:25 AM 1352 Kbps 316 Kbps
8/15/2009 2:21:10 AM 1104 Kbps 293 Kbps

OneADay

Peanuts - Don't you just wish you had cable - I have 1.1MB a second (thats 10MB)

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I am getting a sense of superiority

1984ReturnsForReal_2

:rotfl:

Doesnt really help though.

I wanted peoples thoughts on the up & down nature of the download speed.

antispam246

Peak non-peak times? Seems like slower speeds are at times when more people would be hitting your exchange, more users, slower speeds. Only exception is weekends, so, to be honest it could be a number of things and specifically, people tend to use the net and mroe and more unusual times. In general it just seems like it's slowing down during peak hours.

Edit: To clarify, the majority of your faster connection speeds are during office hours, when people are away from home working etc..

elvch01

OneADay wrote: »

Peanuts - Don't you just wish you had cable - I have 1.1MB a second (thats 10MB)

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I am getting a sense of superiority

and I have 5+MB/s so I'm even more superior :p:p

Are those figures Kbps or KBps (bits or Bytes)?
What speed testing site/software are you using to get these results?
What router are you using?
How far from your local telephone exchange are you? I am about 4 miles as the crow flies (about 8 miles of cable though) and can get about 2Mb/s max on ADSL Use http://www.dslzoneuk.net/distance.php to get the straight line distance
Is your router connected to the master phone socket or via an extension?

Its worth connecting to your router directly and looking at

• the attenuantion
• the noise margin
• the router connection speed

If you do that and post here we might be able to offer more advice on whether there is a problem that can be readily addressed or not use http://www.dslzoneuk.net/maxspeed.php to get an idea of the max possible speed

penrhyn

Your figures are meaningless without line attenuation and noise margin figures.

Log on to your router scroll down to find show router statistics and post them.

BTW It would be helpful if you were plugged into your master socket.

Whoops just repeated the post above, should have gone to Specsavers

kwikbreaks

The router stats are indeed important but from the upstream rate shown you are not on the Sky LLU product which is good but on the Sky BTw based IPstream product which sucks. If the upstream sync rate is 448 that will confirm my susptitions.

The same divide exists with O2 Broadband where the LLU product is great and the BTw based IPstream product sucks.

Anybody beginning to see a common factor here?

penrhyn

I think OP has been hauled off to the Ministry of Truth:rotfl:

P S.I've heard of fiddling while Rome burns, but an accordion?

kwikbreaks

> P S.I've heard of fiddling while Rome burns, but an accordion?

He's multi-talented - perhaps you prefer the honky-tonk piano?

bigmacca81625

ive noticed a massive fluctuation in download speeds, im a heavy gamer and i get an hour where my speeds are massive, and an hour where everything is so poor its unreal!

i had considered it was just the connection of my opponent but it was so poor and this was on a 1v1 game so im currently looking for a new one