Test your broadband speed

withabix

withabix wrote: »

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...

Throttle on....

3008/280
:eek:

crystal9

rob200375 wrote: »

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.

on this 1 it says im around 3.50meg but the op website says only 725 download :eek: im on talk talk to and they just put new exchange in to improve things?????? not sure it has :rotfl:

pennylane99

all depends on what speeds your phone line can handle....how far away from an exchange etc

BT says my line will only do a max of 2mb...so obviously no point paying for a 10mb, when I wont get anywhere near that.

jeledaka

jeledaka wrote: »

Download Speed: 475 kbps (59.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 66 kbps (8.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

:eek:

I'm with TalkTalk (oh joy!!) - supposed to up to 8 whatever it is!!

better this morning, but then again it couldn't have got much worse!!!
Download Speed: 7043 kbps (880.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 371 kbps (46.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

rob200375

rob200375 wrote: »

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.

I use this all time, and it always gives me between 1800-2000, i am on a 2mb line and that is the speed I get and pay for.

I use virginmedia (cable) as my provider,

It seems most of the entries on this thread are people who are using ADSL lines, Virgin uses DSL it is much more likley to give you the speed you pay for, you do pay a bit more but you do get what you pay for, I live to far from the exchange and if I was to use adsl(telephone line - BT, Orange etc), i would get about 512kbps download speed at a max, but with virgin I have had a 4mb line and got this speed continuously during the day or night.

For each of your providers you need to check the contention ratio to see what yours is the lower the ratio the less likely your speed will drop, during peak times.

hope this is useful, all this info is available on the thinkbroadband.com website, it is worth looking at.

iieee

I can't get it to do the upload test! It just gets stuck at 'preparing upload test'.

Download speed is 3mb. We're paying for 16mb from Sky. Not complaining though, it seems fast enough.

rob200375

iieee wrote: »

I can't get it to do the upload test! It just gets stuck at 'preparing upload test'.

Download speed is 3mb. We're paying for 16mb from Sky. Not complaining though, it seems fast enough.

surely if sky do a 4mb package it would save you money
i see the 16mb line is unlimited and 8mb is 40gb allownace if you dont download it would save a bit to downgrade, you would still get the speed you are getting you just would not get the download allowance

rob200375

crystal9 wrote: »

on this 1 it says im around 3.50meg but the op website says only 725 download :eek: im on talk talk to and they just put new exchange in to improve things?????? not sure it has :rotfl:

when you do the tests they have 2 results per download and upload

first is the speed of the line 3.5mbps
secondly is the max download speed, 725#

these figures would be about right

if you had a 3.5mbps line you would get a download speed of around 700-800kbps

I have a 2mb line and it runs at 2mbps and I get a max download speed of 256kbps, it looks to be about 1/4 of the line speed is the download speed.

this would seem to be true as when i had a 4mb line i could get max download speed of 800-900kpbs

Tao81

Still chronic on my Orange up to 8Meg broadband! :mad:

701kbps vs 81kbps!!!!:eek:

Did a test in the early hours of the morning and got the same results!!

wookie_2

my line only supports 2.2 meg and getting 1.8 meg so not to bad me thinks and its free :j which is even better.