The Speedtest thread.

[jip0]

not to bad considering the line hasn't been active more then 10 days and there's currently six computers connected and one of them is probaly using bit torrent

 

[custard]

http://www.speedtest.net/wave/534f09c212d5ebb5



still spot on for a VM 20meg line

 

[Kier]

We're on VM with 20Meg but only getting this.

 

[custard]

We're on VM with 20Meg but only getting this.

thats a pretty poor DL speed
not being traffic shaped?

 

[BlueDan]

Surely they'll not be shaping traffic for speed tests?

Dave, ideally you want your router as close to where the phone line comes in as possible, run a longer lan cable if required, it won't suffer as much and would have bandwidth to spare anyway.

Also try disconnecting any phone extensions around the house, sometimes they can act as an ariel and screw with DSL/ADSL.

Switch the router off, wait half a minute and switch back on try and force a resync with the exchange after doing anything with the cables.

 

[dave]

my phone line comes off a pole to the house and runs down the out side of the house and has a conector box halfway too, my extension is hard wired in. i think i need bt to fit new cable with no conector but i dont pay line rental to them so they wont do nothing

 

[custard]

Surely they'll not be shaping traffic for speed tests?

Dave, ideally you want your router as close to where the phone line comes in as possible, run a longer lan cable if required, it won't suffer as much and would have bandwidth to spare anyway.

Also try disconnecting any phone extensions around the house, sometimes they can act as an ariel and screw with DSL/ADSL.

Switch the router off, wait half a minute and switch back on try and force a resync with the exchange after doing anything with the cables.

depends
VM will cut your speed if you go over your daily allocation
then they also have traffic shaping in place

 

[ChrisUK]

my phone line comes off a pole to the house and runs down the out side of the house and has a conector box halfway too, my extension is hard wired in. i think i need bt to fit new cable with no conector but i dont pay line rental to them so they wont do nothing

Yes they will. Who you pay your line rental too doesn't matter BT are still getting their cut through wholesale.

They will however only fit a new cable if it is adversely effecting either your broadband / voice calls or both.

 

[Kier]

thats a pretty poor DL speed
not being traffic shaped?

We had been, but then upgraded over a week ago and its only just started getting above 4meg. Just done it again and got 7.73.

 

[BlueDan]

Uni at 9:05am

Dave, ours was broken when the fascia boards on the house were changed (it had been there for decades by then). Rang BT and it turns out it was due for replacement anyway, so they came out and did it early, you could check if yours is too (probably if your speeds are that crap).

custard - what I meant is surely they would leave the traffic going back and forth to speedtest.net's servers well alone, even during peak hours and if someone has gone over their "unlimited" (roll eyes face) allowance. Although they probably would get in trouble for doing that.

 

[Oakley28]

And this is mine.

 

[Kier]

Heh...we got a new hub thingy today that was meant to help...its worse >.<

 

[AppleSei]

Im not doing too bad

 

[Kier]

Thats more like it!

 

[Hellcat]

Hooyah!

 

[custard]

Thats more like it!

still low though,especially your upload speed

 

[jip0]

:devil:

 

[arc]

BT Infinity

 

[BlueDan]

BT Infinity

Meh, your ul is nearly as quick as my dl :/

 

[arc]

ehehehehehe