Download Speed

Keanosafc

After using an online internet speed tester

here:-

http://www.speedtest.net/

it gave me my results. I'm just wondering if there is anyway that I can tweak my internet settings to make my speed faster. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

murk11

HI there, have a look at

http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks

Why are your results that bad? what speed pakage are you on

comeonthetic

My results were as follows:

Ping = 62 ms
Download = 2063 kbps
Upload = 240 kbps

Is this good or bad?

bat999

Hi comeonthetic

Is this good or bad?

I don't know, it depends what internet package you're paying for.

The Download = 2063 kbps means approximately 2Mbps.

stebiz

Pings are a bit poor if they are to a uk site - try https://www.bbc.co.uk and you should should get about 16-20ms

Stebiz

comeonthetic

bat - 2Mbps is what I am paying for. I assume it is a uk site.

stebiz - I selected Derby when I did the speedtest.

I did the report thing Murk11 detailed earlier and it suggested tweaks. Unfortunately I have absolutely no idea of what any of it meant though!!

Is the ping that important?

bat999

comeonthetic

It looks like you're ok then, 2Mbps download with 256Kbps upload.

When you do these speed tests they just give you a snapshot showing your speeds at that time. If you try again 5 minutes later you will probably get different results.

Ping times are important if you are playing online games (I think )
:cool:

stebiz

bat999 wrote:

comeonthetic

It looks like you're ok then, 2Mbps download with 256Kbps upload.

When you do these speed tests they just give you a snapshot showing your speeds at that time. If you try again 5 minutes later you will probably get different results.

Ping times are important if you are playing online games (I think )
:cool:

Yes you are right. It is extremely important in online gaming but also browsing too. If it is taking a while to get packets back from a uk site such as bbc.co.uk your browsing will be poor.

Go to Run, Type CMD - this will bring up DOS. Now type in ping https://www.bbc.co.uk - anything below 20-30ms is great - higher or with packet loss contact ISP.

Stebiz

comeonthetic

Cheers again folks.

Did that stebiz and the average was 24ms. No Packet loss either.

All would appear to be ok.

jamesy

I have just tried the speed test


ping=157

upload=215

download=1931


does not seem right

comeonthetic

Probably need to detail what download speed you are paying for, like I had to earlier.

Ping is way higher than mine though but the others are not that much different, relatively speaking.