What Internet Speed Are You Compig With?

tghe-retford

About 60mbps.

I'm the only person in the country who doesn't have access to Virgin Media by the looks of it.

grannybiker

Love living in a rural spot, (Gloucestershire, so hardly the wilds,) but don't get me started on Broadband speeds! Our TV reception is dire, so Sky is a must, (No cable / Virgin.) We don't have mains gas or sewers either, (Cheap water rates !)
Just went to test out of interest and it couldn't complete the test due to a connection error!
Eventually it hovered around the 2.8 - 3.3, then shot up to 10.6mb
Upload speeds 1.19mb

mansey

Just tested mine and running on a smidge below 50 mb

mjm3346

When openreach were here this was the speedchecker they used (ignore the ads on the page)

http://www.speedtest.net/index.php

Runnerduck

ours went down to 0.47 mb download speed, before xmas, rang and had a rant, now we have a speed of 1.2 mb comps with videos are a big no no!

LadyMorticia

49.70mbs download.
15.49mbs upload.

In Somerset. It used to be about 7mbs but our village was upgraded to BT Infinity last year.

BlueBella

mjm3346 wrote: »

When openreach were here this was the speedchecker they used (ignore the ads on the page)

http://www.speedtest.net/index.php

sorry to sound thick but what does the 'ping' and the 'download'/'upload' results tell us?

sheils6

Mine is 18mb and manage the comps fine. Could get Infinity if I was willing to pay the extra!

mjm3346

BlueBella wrote: »

sorry to sound thick but what does the 'ping' and the 'download'/'upload' results tell us?

For "ping" lower numbers are better but it doesn't usually make much difference unless you are a serious gamer (it's to do with response times)

Download is the speed you can receive information - a really slow speed can make pages take longer to load, particularly if there are lots of images on the page. You generally need 2 to 2.5mb upwards to be able to stream video (4mb and up is better) and the higher the speed the more you can do at the same time/the more devices that can be connected at once without anything slowing down.
Upload is the speed you can send information - for entering competitions upload speed would not often make much difference if you are just putting information on a form and submitting it, but uploading photographs for instance could take noticeably longer with a poor speed.


The MSE guide

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/boost-broadband-speed

BuxtonBlue

tghe-retford wrote: »

About 60mbps.

I'm the only person in the country who doesn't have access to Virgin Media by the looks of it.

I can't get VM. They installed their cables only a little way up our road, so the first three houses can get it but not the rest

I do get 38Mb on a 38Mb line with BT, so I can't complain too much.