Broadband Speeds

[fludie]

That's all very well boc, but in the long run everybody ends up paying higher train ticket prices

 

[Feriol]

1956kbs with Orange 'upto' 8mb broadband.

 

[Macky]

1956kbs with Orange 'upto' 8mb broadband.

With BT, or any ISP reselling BT Wholesale connections, you would need to be consistently below 256kbps before it can be reported as a fault.

Anything else will not be entertained, in fact, your ISP would be 'fined' by BTW for raising a fault on anything >256kbps.

The 'up to' part is a very important phrase.

 

[stevewalshwasgod]

1986 download
189 upload
Virgin Media

 

[Hammond Organ]

You've just made me do what Fludie does a lot of!!

Spit instead of swallow?

 

[Hammond Organ]

Mine has slowed down from 54Mbps to 36 this morning

I'm only 3 miles from Isleworth.

Which is irrelevent as i'm with BT

I used to be 3 miles from Isleworth... what a shit-hole. Not as bad as Feltham was though.

 

[OldGit]

I used to be 3 miles from Isleworth... what a shit-hole. Not as bad as Feltham was though.

IS

 

[Hammond Organ]

IS

It has been done up, was just being kind in case you lived there

 

[OldGit]

No, one stop closer to town (down either side of the loop).

I once hear Feltham desribed as the only place where the estate agents have panic buttons to alert the mental health people if a potential buyer comes in.

 

[Hammond Organ]

Whitton or Twickenham then (Depending how slow your train is...)

Feltham isn't that nice...

 

[OldGit]

Whitton or Twickenham then (Depending how slow your train is...)

Feltham isn't that nice...

 

[Hammond Organ]

In that case, you were just down the road when I lived in Bedfont!

 

[fludie]

Certain Internet Providers do slow down the connection speeds to around 2mb from 5pm to 12am to stop downloaders using all the bandwidth up also.

 

[spionfox]

Certain Internet Providers do slow down the connection speeds to around 2mb from 5pm to 12am to stop downloaders using all the bandwidth up also.

In the case of Virgin, this is only done after a certain amount has been downloaded - you still get full speed until that point.

 

[fludie]

In the case of Virgin, this is only done after a certain amount has been downloaded - you still get full speed until that point.

Oh i did not know that there is a limit until the speed restriction comes in.

 

[spionfox]

Oh i did not know that there is a limit until the speed restriction comes in.

There isn't a limit until the restriction kicks in. I didn't say that there was.

 

[Macky]

Certain Internet Providers do slow down the connection speeds to around 2mb from 5pm to 12am to stop downloaders using all the bandwidth up also.

Not quite, close but no Mars bar for you.

They will only throttle back the connection speed during peak hours of people who have gone past the limits of their fair usage policy.

They use traffic shaping to identify protocols being used to slow down torrent files when an exchange is running at capacity, this will affect everybody but it won't slow down the actual connection speed, only traffic using that protocol.

 

[fludie]

Not quite, close but no Mars bar for you.

They will only throttle back the connection speed during peak hours of people who have gone past the limits of their fair usage policy.

They use traffic shaping to identify protocols being used to slow down torrent files when an exchange is running at capacity, this will affect everybody but it won't slow down the actual connection speed, only traffic using that protocol.

Well explained.

Accident i mean i didnt know that they restricted the traffic once the usage limit is full.

 

[Rotherham Fox]

Date 26/01/08 21:07:43
Speed Down 685.31 Kbps ( 0.7 Mbps )
Speed Up 364.80 Kbps ( 0.4 Mbps )
Port 8095
Server 0.0.0.0

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

 

[Durham Fox]

Im getting seriously ****ed off with my connection, 3mb is just not fast enough My exchange seems to be limited to 3mb though. I have a feeling they must have closed down/ moved my local exchange because it used to be bloody quick!!!