Download speeds

[dvdmike]

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.

Im getting 450+ from news groups

[yosai]

Just tried this at home. be* ADSL2+

[ExpertKing]

lol lucky sod. My local exchange wont be unbundled for ages.

[EJG1980]

My local exchange has bee upgraded, but I don't have a BT phone line! I'm just gonna have to hope Blueyonder top up their maximum speed. Not that 10Mbps is bad, but as soon as you see something faster...

[digitalmonkey]

lol exactly , a friend in Saitama is on 100MB fibre (FTTP). I imagine after getting used to that my 8Mb DSL line would be murder.

[buster_broon]

makes me laugh

got an email from AOL this monring when i came online telling me that my broadband was being upscaled for free and i can enjoy bigger downloads quickly

i thought great since i have to download 2 american tv shows today

it just took me 8hrs 35mins to download my name is Earl

its a fecking 176MB file

ha bloody ha

[buster_broon]

i thought great since i have to download 2 american tv shows today

it just took me 8hrs 35mins to download my name is Earl

its a fecking 176MB file

ha bloody ha

AOL have finished tinkering with my line and this is my latest result

http://www.speedtest.net/result/57324664.png

only took 33 minutes to download my name is earl today

but at the same time i was downloading the office and that only took 46 minutes, not super fast but much better than before

Basically the best i could hope for was 53kbps and today the best i got was 125kbps

BSG tomorrow is going to be watched quickly

[sofasurfer]

Im supposed to be on 16 meg.We moved into the new place in July and were connected to Bulldog in August.

Using that sppedtest Im only getting about 2 meg



Bulldog say that I may have to wait a while as it can take some time for the full speed to be apparent but Im feeling that is a load of bull.

What do i do to tell them I should be getting much better speeds?

[demon9k]

Im supposed to be on 16 meg.We moved into the new place in July and were connected to Bulldog in August.

Using that sppedtest Im only getting about 2 meg



Bulldog say that I may have to wait a while as it can take some time for the full speed to be apparent but Im feeling that is a load of bull.

What do i do to tell them I should be getting much better speeds?

nah your right on track with those speed results. You'll have a 16Mbit line which should give you a download speed of around 2Mbytes. I don't know if there is a reason why they do the speeds in Mbits rather than Mbytes other than to make it appear faster.

[sofasurfer]

nah your right on track with those speed results. You'll have a 16Mbit line which should give you a download speed of around 2Mbytes. I don't know if there is a reason why they do the speeds in Mbits rather than Mbytes other than to make it appear faster.

Cheers for that

What I cant work out though is that when I use uTorrent i can only get a top speed of about 230 kb/s.Is that right?Shouldnt I be able to get more?

[charlesr]

Eat my dust

[sofasurfer]

Eat my dust

Who are you with for a speed like that?

[Concept]

That speed is ridiculous Charles. I take it you aren't posting from a home connection?

[charlesr]

lolzers

[charlesr]

Yes, there's a high probability I'm posting from the office today