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[Matthew.]

After moving from a lovely (really quite large) house to some rubbish 2 and a half bedroom bungalow so my dad can knock it down and build again (i think it's an esteem issue ), living up my nan's for 7 weeks and waiting for broadband for 2, i'm back

Ahhh 6mbps....quite nice considering I've never been above 0.5mb

Matt

[α∂αмяoss]

Welcome back dude, I don't think much has changed since you left ...

[Matthew.]

Yeah, it all looks pretty regular hah. If it isn't broken...

Edited by Matthew., 17 November 2007 - 09:12 AM.

[CrazedLlama]

Wb mate!

[Dopey]

Who is your I.S.P?

[Matthew.]

Orange. It's fallen to about 2mb now though heh (peak time)

[Dopey]

So those are the actual speeds you're receiving when you're downloading?

[Matthew.]

Hah, no, I just got my units wrong. 6mb = 600kbps and so on.

UK has nothing above 20mb on any ISP, and that's extremely localised...1-6/8 seems the average.

[Dopey]

I know, I am meant to be running 20MB but the most I've ever got is 1300MB/s ....never go with Virgin Media my friend.

[N4Z.]

Dopey, on Nov 17 2007, 09:22 PM, said:

I know, I am meant to be running 20MB but the most I've ever got is 1300MB/s ....never go with Virgin Media my friend.

Im with Virgin i get around 8699/Kbps peak. and about double off peak. I love virgin.

Welcome back dude!

You havent missed a lot. Mainly bitching and spamming, same old same old eh?

[Dopey]

S0LDIER., on Nov 17 2007, 09:54 PM, said:

Im with Virgin i get around 8699/Kbps peak. and about double off peak. I love virgin.

Is that your actual download speed? (i.e. when you download a file from the internet it downloads at that speed)
/OR/
Is it the speed SpeedTest.net says?

[N4Z.]

Dopey, on Nov 18 2007, 12:20 AM, said:

S0LDIER., on Nov 17 2007, 09:54 PM, said:

Im with Virgin i get around 8699/Kbps peak. and about double off peak. I love virgin.

Is that your actual download speed? (i.e. when you download a file from the internet it downloads at that speed)
/OR/
Is it the speed SpeedTest.net says?

My actual downloads. If you are not getting the speeds you wish, call Virgin, they fix it for you. Thats what happened to me. Im on the biggest package, just give them a call, they will tell you if theres any limitations on your package or they will boost up your connection, they make you reset your modem and turn your PC's and Laptops and other networked things off.. then viola.

[l3lueMage]

Dopey, on Nov 17 2007, 04:20 PM, said:

S0LDIER., on Nov 17 2007, 09:54 PM, said:

Im with Virgin i get around 8699/Kbps peak. and about double off peak. I love virgin.

Is that your actual download speed? (i.e. when you download a file from the internet it downloads at that speed)
/OR/
Is it the speed SpeedTest.net says?

4chan sucks.

Moving on ...I get like 700kb/sec but when I do the speedtest.net I get like 24MB down and 2MB up

[Matthew.]

Im down to about 100kb/s at peak time...Japan is laughing at us in the UK as we type.

[l3lueMage]

Japan is laughing at all, their average internet speed is 60MB Down and like 60MB up. One of the most common ISPs there give 100MB Down and 100MB up for only $30USD ....

[damir_zg]

omg i didnt knew they were so fast!

my download speed is about 180 kb/s

[Jeepinator]

l3lueMage, on Nov 19 2007, 12:56 PM, said:

Japan is laughing at all, their average internet speed is 60MB Down and like 60MB up. One of the most common ISPs there give 100MB Down and 100MB up for only $30USD ....

Well when your people are in rather dense populations and not spread out everywhere it is easier to concentrate your servers for more specific regions thus giving a higher speed. The USA on the other hand is a huge area to cover with many many more people.

[Matthew.]

It's mainly to do with the quality of the cabling...

[Jeepinator]

yeah...that hurts me. our cabling is 18 years old under ground except for the last 60 feet which my father and I dug up and redid, but then most of the cable in our house is 5-18 years old...slows it down