Test your broadband speed

withabix

Anyone on an 'upto 8Mbps' service will rarely get that bandwidth, except in the middle of the night.

Most connections are asynchronous at (insert your advertised bandwidth here eg 0.5, 1, 2, 4 or 8 etc)Mbps incoming/(256)Kbps outgoing.

Try the bandwidth test in the middle of the evening. You will be shocked!!

Unless you've got a leased line/IP Clear line, you will also be affected by CONTENTION, whic may be 50:1 typically - ie 50 users trying to share the same bandwidth as you.

When running the test, you need to make sure you haven't got anything else using your bandwidth, such as P2P filesharing, a hacker(!!), email or another web page etc...

Mine is currently reporting around 6800/280, which is GOOD for an upto 8Mbps connection at this time of the day. Wait till the kids get home from school...

TurkishDelight

I am on 1meg (tiscali 2meg package but with local speed restrictions) and I got 931kbps download and 241kbps upload

Highland_Lass_2

I'm with AOL (£17.99 a month) and this is what mine came up with -

Download 1888
Upload 218

What does this mean please?

boatman

Download = 2.6mb, think this is pretty average but it was 4.5mb not so long ago.

salty1874

Mesopotania wrote: »

It's a shocker - mine is meant to be 8mb and didn't even reach one mb!
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I'm getting

Download Speed: 1547 kbps (193.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 381 kbps (47.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

On up to 8meg, was getting about 5 meg, until I put in a wireless modem so my mum could use it down the stairs...

skintandsad

I've got free broadband from Orange (because we have mobile phone contract with them).... I thought it was nice and quick, and I get

6914 kbps download speed
371 kbps upload speed

Not bad for this time of day :T

Kochanski

Download Speed: 2383 kbps (297.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 368 kbps (46 KB/sec transfer rate)

I'm with Talk Talk free Broadband bundle 8mb, I've never even reached 3mb in the middle of the night. It is Talk Talk so I shouldn't really be suprised.

I've been keeping track on my speeds with another website since May and If anything the speed has decreased over time.

rob200375

Highland_Lass wrote: »

I'm with AOL (£17.99 a month) and this is what mine came up with -

Download 1888
Upload 218

What does this mean please?

this means you are getting the equivalent of just under a 2mb line speed which is not bad if that is what you are paying for.

2000 is a 2mb line roughly, uploads are not really used unless you are sending files to a web site, not used that often and usually quite lower compared to dwonloads,

rob200375

i use the free download test on thinkbroadband.com

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

i like this and you can rate it and compare against others.

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

Yikes, supposed to be getting up to 20meg but just over 5meg is the result - i think a few more tests and if it doesnt improve over time i'll be complaining.