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Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:45 am**

Just found a neat Broadband speed tester

Speedtest

As you can see from my sig it can also be included in forum sigs

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:55 am**

And I'm quite proud of my speed considering in my village there isn't even a shop :lol:

My upload is as good as your cable :D

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:56 am**

wish they would boost the upload speeds on my connection

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:30 am**

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:wish they would boost the upload speeds on my connection

And all I get is this:

bah humbug.....!

regards

Tim

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:59 pm**

Just one reason I need to change isp

this ones too fast :shock:

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:06 pm**

Suppose I should be happy with the upload figure even if the download isn't up to much (Shows as 960 on the modem icon)

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:21 pm**

Thought I'd try again....

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:22 pm**

NTL (of course now Virgin Media) deliver the goods. To be honest I have been with them over 6 years now with next to no issues at all, infact I have had interrupted service maybe four times in total.

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:33 pm**

Gary wrote:Thought I'd try again....

Ye gods... that's really bad....and I thought I had a lousy connection....!

Where are you in UK and can you get a LLU provider?

Use the samknows website to find out your exchange and find out if a different provider serves it...

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/phoneno.php

regards

Tim

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:05 pm**

UBT - Timbo wrote: Ye gods... that's really bad....and I thought I had a lousy connection....!

Where are you in UK and can you get a LLU provider?

regards

Tim

Here the exchange details..

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/excha ... code=NDBEX

I looked at Bulldog & they want £100 connection fee :shock:

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:54 pm**

Well I am surprised at the variations of connection speeds and the up and download speeds! Is everyone on Broadband?

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:02 pm**

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:06 pm**

Thanks for the link Dave - nice one!

Even though Dublin is closer for me, the London one is faster.

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:07 pm**

Timby wrote:Well I am surprised at the variations of connection speeds and the up and download speeds! Is everyone on Broadband?

CRIKEY - do you live in the local exchange - a 5Mb connection !! phew...and I'm lucky to get 512k !!

Some sort of "post-code" lottery going on here......

Nearly as bad as the dental service...

regards

Tim

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:09 pm**

Hardly Timbo, I am in the wild wild west, in deepest darkest Somerset where we only just got lekkey installed

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:15 pm**

Gary wrote:Here the exchange details..

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/excha ... code=NDBEX

I looked at Bulldog & they want £100 connection fee :shock:

I didn't know that Tiscali have their own LLU ADSL service - thought they were still selling the BT Wholesale service....

As for Bulldog - I looked at their site and in the small print it says:

Connection charge is £30 if transferring from an active BT phone line. Customers who do not have an active BT line will require a new line connection - the charge for this is £99.

So, maybe it'll only cost you £30 for the connection.

regards

Tim

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:28 pm**

if any one wants a laugh try going across the pond @ http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ you can also post your results if your brave enough :lol:

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:33 pm**

Apparantly my exchange is hidden in a hedge!

(There must be a joke there somewhere but I can't think of one!)

Multimap Photo

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:46 pm**

UBT - Mikeejones wrote:Apparantly my exchange is hidden in a hedge!
(There must be a joke there somewhere but I can't think of one!)]

Mine's in a field...!

Multimap Photo

regards

Tim

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:32 pm**

Thinking of upping my speed soon, going to wait until my next bill comes as I can't workout the full cost for all my services as I have had various credits and debits in the last few months that are not part of my normal service.

Also sent an email to Virgin Media asking them nicely to attempt to increase the upload speeds as I see no reason they should be so low nowadays

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:12 pm**

Timby wrote:if any one wants a laugh try going across the pond @ http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ you can also post your results if your brave enough :lol:

that came out slightly faster @ 2390/376

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:35 pm**

Temujin wrote:
Timby wrote:if any one wants a laugh try going across the pond @ http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ you can also post your results if your brave enough :lol:

that came out slightly faster @ 2390/376

WOW that is a surprise, I only get 3280 down and 340up if I use the Washington server?
Yes Timbo, our exchange is about 0.5 of a mile away so not quite at the end of the drive but not far off!

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:42 am**

My new connection is a lot faster than the old Tiscali 1mb that I had. I'm about 1.25km from the exchange (straight line).

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:52 am**

Check mine out thats a good BT connection for ya

Terry

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:33 am**

Terry, that is exactly the speed I had for months with BT. It's due to them getting the initial line speed test wrong in the first 10 day. They're too stupid to work it out, I had a 'max threshold rate' of 504Kbps. No one ever thought this might be the problem, I just heard the person mumbling it to themselves and jumped on it asking them to re test it.

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:23 pm**

Cheers i'll jump on someones head soon if they don't sort it

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:50 pm**

UBT - Timbo wrote:
Gary wrote:Here the exchange details..

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/excha ... code=NDBEX

I looked at Bulldog & they want £100 connection fee :shock:
I didn't know that Tiscali have their own LLU ADSL service - thought they were still selling the BT Wholesale service....

As for Bulldog - I looked at their site and in the small print it says:

Connection charge is £30 if transferring from an active BT phone line. Customers who do not have an active BT line will require a new line connection - the charge for this is £99.

So, maybe it'll only cost you £30 for the connection.

regards

Tim

You're right, £99 was for a new line installation.

After a bit of research, Cable & Wireless sold Bulldog to Pipex in sept 06 since then 20% of the subscribers have left which uses the Tiscali network, and their reputation isn't very good, BT is looking favourite at the moment.

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:45 pm**

Interesting how everyone has the same upload speed! Even people with a 4800kbps download difference!

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:35 pm**

I think I'm cheating by living on the campus! :lol:

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:36 pm**

phucco wrote:I think I'm cheating by living on the campus! :lol:

Right thats it get out

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:03 pm**

phucco wrote:I think I'm cheating by living on the campus! :lol:

OMG :shock: That's FAST!

I'm in Uni tomorrow, I'll have a go. But I don't live there so it'll stay out of my sig.

Posted: **Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:48 pm**

I'm at uni so had a go. Check that upload speed! :shock:

Posted: **Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:37 pm**

Freeeoow! :geek:

Posted: **Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:49 pm**

If only my connection was that fast

Posted: **Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:01 pm**

Still think mine's the best :roll: :?: :roll:

Yet this is what my isp says i'm running at
IP profile for your line is - 500 kbps
DSL connection rate: 448 kbps(UP-STREAM) 5440 kbps(DOWN-STREAM)
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 359 kbps
Just a bit different mmm

Posted: **Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:23 pm**

Well some ISP's are a bit rubbish at quoting what you actually are achieving

Posted: **Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:42 pm**

Gary wrote:Thought I'd try again....

Just got connected tonight on my other line...

Posted: **Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:57 pm**

Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:43 pm**

Mmm.. I love working for an international company and it says my local connection is in Bristol...

Now, lets try a "local" speedtest:

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:47 pm**

Hi all,

My ADSL speed has gone up from:

to:

S'pose I should be pleased !! except for that higher ping time !!

The Lord giveth with one hand and taketh away with the other

regards

Tim

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:12 pm**

Im on orange ??? CABLE AN WIRELESS ??????????, Shame its not this speed at night, il have another go later :lol:

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:42 pm**

No Comment!

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:17 pm**

Yay for being a towny

Posted: **Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:39 pm**

This is what £15/month on Virgin.net is getting, sometime in the next week I will find out what I get from Sky at £0/month

Posted: **Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:20 am**

Not too bad at work

Although it does reckon I'm in Liechtenstein!

Posted: **Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:44 pm**

Origional Pipex user (@dsl) not one of these new pipex wipper snappers (@xtreme)

Posted: **Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:46 pm**

It's what I pay for, I suppose! £18/mnth to the man with the beard!

Posted: **Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:09 pm**

UBT-mark3346 wrote:This is what £15/month on Virgin.net is getting, sometime in the next week I will find out what I get from Sky at £0/month

So far so good for Sky

Posted: **Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:33 pm**

UBT-mark3346 wrote:
UBT-mark3346 wrote:This is what £15/month on Virgin.net is getting, sometime in the next week I will find out what I get from Sky at £0/month

So far so good for Sky

Which Virgin package were you paying for originally, Mark?

Posted: **Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:59 pm**

Free evening and weekend calls and up to 8 on the broadband, bundle 2 I think it was (started at a lower price then sneaked up while I wasn't looking). Never had a problem with Virgin.net since I started with their dial up about 10 years ago but it is a luxury as sky is free for 2GB or £5 for a 40GB usage allowance so I will save £120 or £180/year which will help with the leccy bills

Posted: **Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:23 pm**

Even though my speed test says 'Telewest', it's all Virgin Media now. I pay for the 'M' broadband, which is £18/mnth for 'unlimited' 2Gb, which I usually get, except teatime and breakfast of course!

I'd be interested in the Sky broadband as I've been a Sky customer since analogue (pre-card!) But I don't have a BT line into the house, so I'd have to include the reconnect cost and the line rental also.

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:33 am**

I am not sure it is worth switching if you have got to add BT line rental (about £12 a month?) most of the saving would be gone and if there is a BT reconnection charge it would take a while just to break even. One drawback with the Sky sagem wireless router is only 2 ethernet sockets, I could connect 5 PCs to the virgin speedtouch box although on the plus side the Sky wireless signal seems better. Depending on your Sky package it might be cheaper to get everything from Virgin.

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:35 pm**

Our phone bill is ~£38/mnth, this includes the £18 broadband charge. The other £20 is for unlimited calls (not mobile or premium) all week and w/end.

But then our TV is £58/mnth, this is Sky+ and Multiroom (full Sky package in both rooms)

So you can call our monthly TV, phone and 'tinternet bill £96/mnth

Posted: **Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:22 am**

Ouch!! Mine should now be about £27 to include broadband, Sky minimum tv package (approx 200 channels*), free evening & weekend calls and BT line rental. No multi room, HD or daytime calls in the week :(

*includes loads of shopping ones

Posted: **Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:19 am**

Not too bad

The 'up to 8Mb' upgrade a couple of months ago seems to have improved things

Posted: **Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:10 pm**

I'll have to get my Dad to try this, he's just had the Tiscali 'free' upgrade from 2Gb to 4Gb because he's signed up to their phone package.

Anyone else on Tiscali?

Posted: **Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:35 pm**

UBT-mark3346 wrote:
UBT-mark3346 wrote:This is what £15/month on Virgin.net is getting, sometime in the next week I will find out what I get from Sky at £0/month

So far so good for Sky

not too bad on wireless

Posted: **Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:25 am**

Try that one!

Posted: **Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:10 pm**

can't beat Pfizer... but then I don't have their cashflow

However, I don't do too bad

Posted: **Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:34 pm**

You must be one of the only Telewest customers that gets anywhere near the 20Mb they pay for!

:lol:

Read some of the complaints on the Cable Forum

Posted: **Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:17 am**

this is my speed but im with SKY not easynet ?

Posted: **Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:41 am**

I think time of day the test is run will make a big difference...

This is mine at 1140 on a Saturday - will try it later too and compare

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Posted: **Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:46 am**

Just tried this again at work, must be 18 months ago I tried it but the results look much the same !!!

Posted: **Sat Mar 08, 2008 4:02 pm**

I did this test at 4pm on the dot so im not sure if this is rush hour for the net or not.

Posted: **Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:32 pm**

Done at 21.30hrs on a Saturday night!

Exactly what I pay for. To be honest it doesn't really drop much, even at 'rush hour' times!

Posted: **Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:31 am**

This is the highest I have had so far with my ISP, it generally floats any where around 13,000 & 20,000 kb/s. This is based on my wireless connnection.

Waiting for the 50Mb Broadband to come out, will see how much it is, probaly mega expensive to start with

Posted: **Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:11 pm**

Don't trust online speed tests much but couldn't resist :lol:

Posted: **Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:23 pm**

You must be one of the only Telewest customers that gets anywhere near the 20Mb they pay for!

Another unhappy Telewest customer here

Posted: **Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:33 pm**

Another unhappy Telewest customer here

What modem do you have??

Posted: **Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:39 pm**

Odd how the recommended yellow pyramid gave me all of 3000 ... but the London connection gave me what Id expect on a 10mb connection ..

Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:29 am**

I rarely get less than 2Mb, which is what I pay for! So I suppose I'd have to say that I'm a happy Telewest (Virgin) customer!

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2012 7:36 pm**

We've had a Demon ADSL line since it became available at our house, some 9-10 years I think. It's been reasonably reliable but it has never managed to impress anyone with its speed.
This is the sort of speed we got

Today we've switched over to BT Infinity and we now get this

Woohoo

Posted: **Tue May 22, 2012 7:54 pm**

Was looking around the Virgin site and found you can have a free Super hub and double speed
Was on 16/20meg

The engineer also told me the area speed (Nuneaton) will be doubled in July ... yay!

Posted: **Tue May 22, 2012 9:08 pm**

I'm glad you posted that, just checked mine again and it's doubled it's speed

Double WooHoo

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2014 4:57 pm**

mine is:
ping: 28ms
DL: 60Mbps
UL: 20Mbps

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:09 pm**

Hi all,

Mine is now:

Ping: 95 msec
Download: 16.68 Mbps
Upload: 0.93 Mbps

I'm only standard Plusnet broadband - I can get fibre, but I can wait until the price comes down - and I'm about 200 yds from the exchange.

Soon be changing to BT though - a nice deal on offer at the moment, plus I'll then get BT Sport and free wifi.

Roll on 24th November !!

regards
Tim

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:52 pm**

Well found Chris, impressive numbers.

I'd forgotten about this.

Previously:

Now I'm at:

Maybe I should have stopped BU while I did it?

Also standard Plusnet but I get it much cheaper than others as I've been on a 'special offer' for a couple of years. They keep trying to get me to upgrade but I'm not falling for that

Mark

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2014 6:03 pm**

Wow this is an old thread - some memorable names here - wonder where they've all gone!

From 2007...

Today

Not as big a difference in 7 years as I would have thought though still using copper wires here so to be expected I suppose!

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2014 6:40 pm**

Rural now, couple of miles from the exchange don't think it's copper, probably tin cans and string.

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2014 9:13 pm**

Thanks, Woodles - its fibre optic

Posted: **Mon Nov 24, 2014 12:20 pm**

UBT - Timbo wrote: .
snip
.
Soon be changing to BT though - a nice deal on offer at the moment, plus I'll then get BT Sport and free wifi.

Roll on 24th November !!

regards
Tim

Hi all,

It's the 24th Nov and I'm just waiting for my BT broadband to start up.

Hopefully, when it's working I can put my home farm back to work...it's off at the moment, as I don't know when the broadband will be back on.

regards
Tim

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