Download speeds

[Ares]

It's IMPOSSIBLE to have that speed if you live 200 miles away from the exchange booth so the mi must stand for meters.

[dvdmike]

its miles thats why i put no faith in these things

[Psyduck]

Don't see why distance would have that much effect on speed tbh

[yosai]

It's IMPOSSIBLE to have that speed if you live 200 miles away from the exchange booth so the mi must stand for meters.

He's 200 miles away from the speed test server. The exchange he's connected to will be pretty local to where he lives.



Just ran the test from work. We've only got a 2Mb line here.

Interesting to see that I'm ~50 miles from the server. As I'm in EC2 atm that would make the server not actually in London.

[Jusatsushi]

So I can get reasonable speeds at 2:30am, so it's nothing to do with my telephone line as the customer services would have me believe... Serious words will be had tomorrow; albeit at 25p per minute

[Spatial]

Oh go on then, here's mine



Not amazing but certainly not bad for where I live (the arse end of anywhere).

Been using the Speedtest site for a while now and my connection is usually around this figure. The lowest it's ever been is 3656kb/s and that was when my ISP was having DNS problems.

[Fuddle]

mine at work, scared to try it at home as i'm sure it will be lame.

[tom-nook]

BT (up to) 8 meg broadband.

Upload seems pretty slow today. Usually around 370kb/s.

[Kubrick]

Blueyonder 4MB

[Ares]

He's 200 miles away from the speed test server. The exchange he's connected to will be pretty local to where he lives.



Just ran the test from work. We've only got a 2Mb line here.

Interesting to see that I'm ~50 miles from the server. As I'm in EC2 atm that would make the server not actually in London.

WTF, you have a 2Mb connection and you get a download speed of 1763 kb/s?!? I couldn't even get above 235kb/s on BT and I don't even live far from the exchange. I just hope AOL Silver can really give me a download speed of 1 mb/s

[Psyduck]

Ares - that's kilobits not kilobytes, there's an 8x difference.

[EJG1980]

WTF, you have a 2Mb connection and you get a download speed of 1763 kb/s?!? I couldn't even get above 235kb/s on BT and I don't even live far from the exchange. I just hope AOL Silver can really give me a download speed of 1 mb/s

1763 kiloBITS per second is actually a little bit slower than your 235 kiloBYTES per second (1763 / 8 = 220), so I wouldn't worry too much I remember the good old days when we first got 512k broadband and I was delirious with joy about getting 50k per sec for downloads

Ares - that's kilobits not kilobytes, there's an 8x difference.

I'm sure most people assume that "X meg broadband" means X megabytes and not megabits. I'm shocked that the service providers don't make it clearer

[Ares]

So AOL have been telling me that I will be getting 300-1000 KBps, must I divide this by 8?

[EJG1980]

I would think so, AOL are probably telling you the kilobits per second speed as it they probably think it sounds more marketable to say 1000 kiliobits per second than 125 kilobytes per second

Yeah, AOL Silver is a 1Mbps (megabits per second) service so you'd probably be looking at top download speeds of about 125Kbps (kilobytes per second) when downloading from a fast UK server.

My Blueyonder broadband is 10Mpbs (megabits) and I can get download speeds of about 1100Kbps (kilobytes) from a fast UK server. So AOL must be quoting you kilobits per second figures with those download speeds.

[Ares]

I just hope that AOL I will actually get the 300 Kbps - 1 Mbps download speeds they're talking about.