Anyone else with BT having a slow day? I have just done a test and it has come back as:
Download speed: 238.98 Kbps ( 0.2 Mbps )
Shocking!!!!!! it's supposed to be up to 8meg
Date 08/12/06 18:15:24
Speed Down 1393.17 Kbps ( 1.4 Mbps )
Speed Up 369.63 Kbps ( 0.4 Mbps )
Pretty abysmal isn't it!!
every day is bad day for me up and down like a yoyo-not sure how much of my problem is the pc itself though
Sounds like some of the problems I had when my exchange first had the 8mbs (joke !) first became available.
Sounds like the line is unstable at the speed it is trying to run at, If you are running a router try disconnecting for 30 minutes each day for the
next three days. If that dosen't work get your ISP to do a "Woosh" test.
It endee up went back to a fixed speed connection with different ISP.
In my experience the vast majority of 8mb/s connections actually run anywhere between 512kb/s and 2.0 mb/s and a lot depends on the traffic --- watch
the speeds drop when the kids get home from school.
One of my ADSL lines is going ADSL2 soon.
[Edited on 8/12/06 by britishtrident]
Got a few customers on BT and all were having problems today (well, even more than usual
) poor throughput and bad packet loss most of the day
Cheers
Alex
Cheers, glad it's not just me!!
Good old BT.
They aren't daft. It does say "up to 8meg". That is so you don't have a leg to stand on when you complain about wee poor service.
You'll only get full 8mbps whichever service you use if you are just over the fence from the exchange, there are too many other factors to incorporate, plus the other ISPs are using the same lines and renting them from BT. I'm in the process of upgrading and for 10 days they will test the line for connectivity and allocate the speed at which the connection is reliable. The ISP has told me not to switch off the modem unnecessarily during this period as if I am only connected during the low average tests that is all I will receive.
I average about 5Mb most days - not unhappy about that as I'm at least 5 country miles from the exchange and not too long ago I was told that I
couldn't have anything higher than 512Kb!
David
PS: I haven't noticed any problems over the past few days...
Depends if you are talking connection speed as shown by your router or download speed. Actual download speed from a speed test is usually 2/3 to 1/2
of connection speed at best.
Actual download speed is highly dependant on contention, at the moment I am showing an 6meg connection but only a 4meg download. In the past actual
download speed as been as low as 512k download and generally averages 1.6 to 2.4 meg.
If you want to go faster ADSL2 roughly doubles the speed at the same distance from the exchange.
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
I average about 5Mb most days - not unhappy about that as I'm at least 5 country miles from the exchange and not too long ago I was told that I couldn't have anything higher than 512Kb!
David
PS: I haven't noticed any problems over the past few days...
I've just changed providers from F2S to Eclipse, as they still offer a completely unresticted service no matter what the time of day is, unlike
those slipperly bastards at F2S.
And sent me a free Netgear router too......
my router normally connects at around 4-5 meg giving a download speed in a tester of about 2,800.
howerver a couple of times its dipped hugely to a similar speed at the original post, most recently this lasted a week.. its a joke.
after 5 evening calls to somewhere in india answering the same questions and having them promise to ring me back and then never do, i finally got them
to send an engineer out.
Who plugged his laptop in and said ' I can download a 7 meg file in 10 seconds here so theres nothing wrong with the line'
Lovely. that helped me a great deal.
so it looks like it'll be migrating somewhere else soon as this quality is s##t. I'd like to go back to my stable 2 meg line, but
apparently you cant. ..
Seems to be ok now!!
Phew!!
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Download speed: 238.98 Kbps ( 0.2 Mbps )