Virgin Fibre speeds?

abibee

Just reading a thread below, I'm making a new thread for my question as not to hijack...

I'm on Virgin's 152Mb fibre. Doing the Ookla speed test I get 90.22Mbps down, 12.21 up. However, in actual practice, my connection peaks or max's out at around 10Mb downloading. Is that normal?

kwikbreaks

Are you by any chance confusing Mb/s and MB/s?

Broadband speeds are quoted in Mbps - megabits per second and you could be looking at 10 megabytes per second which is 80Mbps because 1byte = 8bits.

If you are testing wireless you will probably get faster wired. Speed test sites are possibly better able to cope with high speeds that some more general site. Torrents download speed depends a lot on how well seeded. Many ISPs throttle P2P too so what you are actually downloading and how can have a big impact on the speed.

abibee

Oh yes, I hadn't thought of that, so my 10Mb download is actually about 80Mbps. That would account for it wouldn't it. So I am getting what I'm paying for. The units can be confusing.

I'm glad I asked, like they say, he who asks a question is a pain in the !!! for 5 minutes...

kwikbreaks

There's no guarantee you made a mistake just a possibilty. A capital B is bytes while a small b is bits - check whatever you were using stated the speed as and look carefully at the units.

abibee

You were correct, I get about 10M'B' download speeds, and the download speed test site measured 90M'b'. So that works out.

IvorBiggun

Google FTTC vectoring. Should give you a small bump in speed if BT ever get round to rolling it out.