help with broadband speed

rhodyate · 25 August 2007 at 11:29PM

i today got my bt broadband up and running. could anybody tell me where do i look on my pc. to see what speed my broadband is running at. it seems v quick at the mo, even though there is a 10 day stabality period.

rhodyate · 25 August 2007 at 11:43PM

thankyou i did the test. it says 6160kbps download speed and 312 kbps upload speed. is this good or bad ?

albertross_2 · 25 August 2007 at 11:46PM

Pretty good I'd say, assuming you are on an 8meg connection. (the most you will ever get (theoretical limit on 8 meg) is just over 7000 down and about 448 up)

rhodyate · 25 August 2007 at 11:49PM

ive got 8mb bb but the max i was told id get was 5.5mb cos of where the exchange is.

albertross_2 · 25 August 2007 at 11:53PM

the 5500 is an approx speed based on distance, but you are exceeding that.

Lexis200 · 26 August 2007 at 12:20AM

To find out what your connection speed is, you need to look at the modem or router as appropriate; online tests will only show you your speed at that particular moment in time... you could be on a much faster line but your connection could be slower than it should be depending on time of day, SNR etc

If you have a modem, you will almost certainly have installed a bit of software to do the dial-up part... look for a new icon on the bottom right of the screen in the taskbar. If you hover over them, you'll probably find one that gives you the connection speed.

If you have a router, you'll need to connect to that, usually via a web browser, to find the speed. Try typing http://192.168.0.1 or http://192.168.1.1 into IE or Firefox and see what happens. You will need a username and password which will probably be in a booklet in the box the router came in. You could try "admin" and "password" (without the quotes) as that's often the default. If you get in, you'll probably see a control panel screen, look for a connections summary page or something similar. Remember to change the password whilst you're there... if you can get in with admin and password, any half-brained hacker will be able to too!

If you post details of your modem/router model, I'll try and give you further help if you need it.

HTH