Broadband Speed

MoneyMagic_3

Ive just done a broadband speed check at adslguide, i wonder can you tell me if im getting a good deal, my BB is a bit slow at the min:

Anyway, im on a bt line, my ISP is DataComms Europe and im paying 12.99 a month, there is no download limit, for this im getting:

Download of: 360.4 Kbps
Uploadof: 182.7 Kbps

What are you guys on and what are you getting??

wonderfullife_2

Hi
First of all I would go here to see what speed you can get, just enter your phone number, and see what it says.
http://www.bt.com/btcom_redirectLink.jsp?action=redirectLink&targetLinkID=BB_Sales_Entry_URL

wolfman

That looks poor.

For £15 a month you could join Eclipse instead on the Evolution 4 package. It's an "upto" 8Mbps "unlimited" service.

I'm about 1-2km away from the exchange and get around 1-2Mbps during peak hours and anything up to 5-6Mbps in the late evening/early morning. My upload/upstream speed is always constant at around 368Kbps.

With this service though (and others like it) your speeds can depend upon a lot of things. As it's a cheaper service I get less priority over people paying for the more expensive services. I generally find it to be fine though.

I think a lot of services are struggling at the moment. Since the switch the MaxDsl (up to 8Mbps speeds) a lot of ISP's have been having problems, even some of the more reputable ones.

iwanttosave_2

I am with tiscali, paying £12.98 and on 1mg

Downstream: 968.1 Kbps (0.9 Mbps)
Upstream :245.8 Kbps 9=0.2 Mbps)

So I am going quite a lot faster than you for the same price

alanrowell

But who is getting genuine unlimited downloads?

wonderfullife_2

alanrowell wrote:

But who is getting genuine unlimited downloads?

Hi
Arrhh well, now thats the million dollar question, not me, I get 30gb on peak, 300gb off peak, up to 8mb speed, for £19.99, which I'm happy with, but No, not unlimited.

xycom1

I'm on Be broadband, unlimited download 16Mbps down and 1Mbps up.

wolfman

xycom1 wrote:

I'm on Be broadband, unlimited download 16Mbps down and 1Mbps up.

Be have an FUP too, although they don't state an actual figure. I think it's just if you download an amount they see excessive, then you'll be in breach of the FUP.

niceguyrichy

alanrowell wrote:

But who is getting genuine unlimited downloads?

tiscali unlimited here, never yet been pulled up for excessive downloads

generally speaking, if your isp states "unlimited", you really really have to hit them hard month after month to p*ss them off (at least in my experience. maybe tiscali are just real nice to me).

EasilyAggravated

there is a little tip to alter the tcp/ip receive window which would increas your speeds. not by much but it does work. it involves changing a file installed with mr gates' xp.

EasilyAggravated

would help if i posted the link
so here it is
http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads

download the english version and please please READ THE INSTRUCTIONS
this patch only works for those with service pack 2 installed. if you have sp1 then there is no limit. however sp2 has its limit set to 10. alter this to 50 with the above download. but like i said above READ THE INSTRUCTIONS