How fast is your ISP?

[alan-d]

At Home

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/410470696.png

 

Supposed to be a 20mb connection but Virgin finally admitted there was a fault at there end and have reduced my bill accordingly (and have been for 12 months!!!)

[heybatesy]

<!--url{0}-->[/img]</p><p> </p><p> I was with BT and thought it sucked and then i moved to Sky (at least 8Mb sir, no problem at all..) b:censored:</p><p> </p><p> I get more with 3G+ on snowdafone.<img src=

[Ric_]

I thought it was about time you saw a properly rubbish speedtest (although DrPerceptron does seem to have me beaten slightly!). This is on a good day too - the weather seriously makes a difference!!!

 

ISP - Sky

Location - Out in the sticks near Preston

Type - ADSL2

Advertised Bandwidth - 8Mbps

 

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[AngryTechnician]

ISP: Plusnet

Location: Reading

Type: IPStream Max

Advertised: "Up to 8Mb"

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/415500437.png

 

I connect at 6880 kbps, bit less than it used to be since I request interleaving to be switched off. 21CN is due to go live on my exchange next month so hopefully a boost will be available soon.

[SimpleSi]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/415514259.png

 

Pay for Sky 16Mb

 

regards

 

Simon

[Edu-IT]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/415566778.png

 

Great.

 

According to BT Wholesale, houses at your postcode should be able to support a 3.5Mbps or greater ADSL connection via ADSL Max.

[kmount]

Edu-IT,

 

What's your sync?

[jubbi]

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And to think if I'd not moved to Leeds from Cas I'd have 50Mb Fibre now!

This is virgin ADSL btw, as I'm stuck in a contract.

[eduabncs]

Home Connection:-

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/421655181.png

 

ISP is ADSL24 which is a Enta reseller. On a 24meg adsl2+ connection. Router died recently so currently using an old talk-talk router (long story!) till I get it replaced, hence the slightly slow speeds!

 

[Ric_]

Pay for Sky 16Mbit

 

You want to knock yourself down to the middle package then and save a couple of pounds a month!

[ICT_GUY]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/421703187.png

 

BT, and it works as stated most of the time.

[UnknownStuntman]

Sky up to 16mb

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/421751670.png

 

not true speed oweing to extension cable knowingly slowing things down by around 3mb

[Little-Miss]

Sky is rubbish!!

[Domino]

ISP: Colt

Location: London

10Mb

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/421910957.png

[pooley]

Work

http://www.speedtest.net/result/421917755.png

[eduabncs]

Work:-

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/421920133.png

[Tony_Mc]

This is at work

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/421923027.png

[RabbieBurns]

ISP: Colt

Location: London

10Mb

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/421910957.png

 

How do you get such a fast upstream?

[Domino]

I've no idea - must be something to do with the fibre round here - and maybe our isp don't throttle up?

 

we pay enough for it...

[tech_guy]

Sky is rubbish!!

 

Yes and no. It really galls me to give that crook Murdoch any of my money, but where I am it's okay and better than some of the other ISPs, even VM, who I used to be with and suffered dire speeds with in the evenings.

 

I'm happy as I get my internet free thanks to lots of whingeing and stroppy letters about the Sky service offerings in general.

 

[krisd32]

Bt at home out in the sticks near Preston

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/421940166.png

[lbradley]

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upto 8mb my

 

this is what the BT SpeedTester has to say:

 

 

 

Which is about right...

 

LOL id kill everyone at BT if they were doing that to me, im on 50 meg at home 5 times faster than work lol.uploads 1.5 meg which aint bad for a home connection

[ZeroHour]

Sky is rubbish!!

 

Nae they are the best ISP I have ever had and I have been through the mill with a lot. No throttling and regularily get up to 1800KB/s on downloads and thats at peak times.

Ric's connection is particularily bad at his house on any isp so its not skys fault.

I would like to add speedtest is a pretty pants site for accurate rates. I prefer seeing screenshots of actual download windows from say a MS server as thats the stats that matter. The real data to disk is the point and speedtest.net has NEVER reflected accurately what I actually get on throughput based on real data I actually download at. I hold no weight in its ratings or scores as if you look at browolfs post you will see that the connection is 8mb (8128kbps) but speedtest.net reports the rate as 14521kbps so how exactly that is possible is beyond me.

 

Here is a screenshot I took a while ago using getright from microsoft.com but I have seen it get up to 1800KB/s on megaupload mirrors using its manager (which although the accuracy has not been proven by me)

 

This is on a Sky BB max syncing at 16379 kbps to the exchange.

[TwoZeroAlpha]

At work on the LEA 10M/bit (so I'm told) connection. Microwave to another school, which goes to a tower and then finally to a hard link.

 

Not too bad really.

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/424012632.png

[dave.81]

Work... paying for 4mb which we do normally get as i test randomly just to make sure

 

In the middle of no where in Devon, would love to get something quicker but funds dont allow for anything like a leased line.

 

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