No real difference after fibre optic upgrade

ferry

I was able to negotiate a free upgrade from standard BB to fibre optic unlimited through Sky but have not noticed any real difference in speed
Should there be a noticeable difference in service with this or have I missed a trick somewhere like resetting the router etc?.Maybe I'm expecting too much!
Only been couple days since activation so not had a chance to contact sky.

Thanks as usual
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enfield_freddy

go here , and hit "run test" , forget filling in the info


tell us that the recorded up and down speeds are




edit : which router are you using ?

ferry

enfield_freddy wrote: »

go here , and hit "run test" , forget filling in the info


tell us that the recorded up and down speeds are




edit : which router are you using ?

No linky?
I'll need to run test and report back in the morning. But using the latest (I think )Black hub connected by ethernet

enfield_freddy

ok , thec test should take about 30 secs , do it connected by Ethernet cable if you can

RumRat

Link for speed test......http://www.speedtest.net/

You won't necessarily notice any difference if just surfing the web and email etc.

Nilrem

RumRat wrote: »

Link for speed test......http://www.speedtest.net/

You won't necessarily notice any difference if just surfing the web and email etc.

And not necessarily if there is only one machine/device connected via wifi.

For any speed testing always use a wired connection (wifi is so variable it's pointless doing speed tests over it unless you're trying to check/improve the wifi network speed), and preferably a reasonably modern machine
Something 10 years old may not be fast enough to do a speed test or have a network port that is too slow.

Le_Kirk

My neighbour noticed a massive difference in speed after he signed up for Infinity. It went from 19 MB to ZERO!! Just after he had come off the phone placing his order (following receipt of a letter from BT), he went to his PC to check his e-mail confirmation had arrived and instead got a shock notice from BT telling him they had been unable to resolve his communication problem and his broadband was down.


Fortunately it seemed to be a coincidental glitch and was resolved overnight with no intervention!!

dktreesea

We're with Virgin Media. Our download speed is 123Mbps, and upload speed is 10.71 Mbps.


But I also just checked this on broadband speed checker, a different server (411ms vs 7ms ping test) and the download speed dropped to 35Mbps, upload speed about the same.


So I think it may depend a lot on which site you are on, and which server is hosting the site, i.e. where it is situated.

Big_Graeme

You should have been told when it was set up that it takes a few days for the speeds to sort themselves out.

ferry

RumRat wrote: »

Link for speed test......http://www.speedtest.net/

You won't necessarily notice any difference if just surfing the web and email etc.

Apologies for the late reply, here goes;

PING7ms
Download speed: 36.43Mbps
Upload speed : 9.63Mbps

enfield_freddy

that is considerably quicker than a basic ADSL setup