Have you checked the speed of your (up to) 8Meg TalkTalk Broadband...?

realaledrinker

For reference, I consistently get 7.616Mb/s, situated exactly 1 km from the exchange [ISP = Demon who use BT kit]

tomstickland

I'm managing an average of 6.1 / 0.4 on an 8Meg connection with IDNet. It shows as 7.6MB/s when I log on.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/116856038554197726070.html
Compare what I've got with ISDN! It seemed to work fine in its day.

avi_3

i am getting 1.2 to 1.7mbps with talktalk, called them and they said my speed will go up once my exchange in unbundled in 2 months.

mrJ_5

peter999 wrote:

Are the figures being confused, 650-700Kb/s is low.
Do you mean 6.5-7Mb/s (same as 6500-7000Kb/s) ??

Seems low to me as well - but the user may have meant that they download at those speeds, which would be a connection of around 6.3Mb/s

magyar

mrJ wrote:

Seems low to me as well - but the user may have meant that they download at those speeds, which would be a connection of around 6.3Mb/s

That's exactly what I meant. The synchronisation speed (i.e. what your ADSL modem reports) is not very meaningful. I was quoting download speeds. (As in fact you'll see if you read the post :rolleyes: )

mrJ_5

however in your original post, you mentioned "650-700 mb/s" - which is dreadfully slow, even for dialup :P ... 0.7b/s, or 0.0007Kb/s.... but even if you did mean Mb, - that would be a superfast connection


... the trouble with all the broadband marketing - the customer always expects to receive the quoted value as a download speed (yes it would be nice to download at 8Mbps, but not for sometime, since we'd need a sync speed of 72Mbps!)

magyar

mrJ wrote:

however in your original post, you mentioned "650-700 mb/s" - which is dreadfully slow, even for dialup :P ... 0.7b/s, or 0.0007Kb/s.... but even if you did mean Mb, - that would be a superfast connection


... the trouble with all the broadband marketing - the customer always expects to receive the quoted value as a download speed (yes it would be nice to download at 8Mbps, but not for sometime, since we'd need a sync speed of 72Mbps!)

Agree; it's not clear to the layman. Or those prone to typos...

peter999

magyar wrote:

There are dozens of online speed checkers you can use. If you Google for "online speed checker" you'll find them. A reliable on is on http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

I'm not on TalkTalk but I typically get 650-700 kb/s downloads which is pretty close.

Madasafish_Customer_Care wrote:

Hi Guys,
For Maygar who says that they're getting speeds of 650-700Kbps, this is quite possible on speeds of up to 8Mb if they're quite a distance from the local exchange.

mrJ wrote:

however in your original post, you mentioned "650-700 mb/s" - which is dreadfully slow, even for dialup :P ... 0.7b/s, or 0.0007Kb/s.... but even if you did mean Mb, - that would be a superfast connection

I think people are getting confused from the typos.
Madasafish thought you were on low speed.

magyar

peter999 wrote:

I think people are getting confused from the typos.
Madasafish thought you were on low speed.

Really? If I was getting a synch speed of <1 Mb then I'd be well below the level at which BT would consider below par.

peter999

magyar wrote:

Really? If I was getting a synch speed of <1 Mb then I'd be well below the level at which BT would consider below par.

I'm on 4Mb/s Broadband (4000Kb/s) with NTL.

At peak times I'm getting 300-600Kb/s (0.3-0.6Mb/s) as my area is overutilised.

peter999