threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Internet speed
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Simba
Specialized Allez 24 Rider
- Location
- Tottington - Lancashire
Mine varies from 10 Mbps to 30 Mbps on a wireless connection, BT Infinity. Lol my upload is faster than all your download speeds.
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
I also have a second internet connection which is 8mbps. Various connections are routed up the other connection to balance the load across the two. And if one connection fails then everything rolls over to the other.
soulful dog
Veteran
- Location
- Glasgow
Can I just say, I really dislike all those with cable & Bt Infinity 
My speed could be a little faster, but this way it gives me a slightly lower ping for playing games...
My speed could be a little faster, but this way it gives me a slightly lower ping for playing games...
Mozzy
New Member
- Location
- Taunton Somerset
Dumb question probably but why is there such a difference tween upload and download speeds?
There is a clue in the name ADSL, as the A is for "Asynchronous" or, more recently, "Asymmetric" Digital Subscriber Line. That means that the upload and download speeds are different. For consumer lines and because people want to download rather than upload, ADSL maximises the headline speeds on the available wires.
For companies which host busy sites, or which transmit a lot of data, lines are synchronous (usually called DSL or SDSL, as well as many other names for the varying specs of pipes available, such as leased lines, T1 etc) and both ways work at the same speed. Cynical types might also think that ISPs make the download speeds over ADSL slower so corporates will buy more expensive access pipes rather than making do with consumer technology. However, fat dedicated pipes are now so cheap that you can get a pair (for resilience) of dedicated symmetric lines for not much more than a standard consumer link.
For companies which host busy sites, or which transmit a lot of data, lines are synchronous (usually called DSL or SDSL, as well as many other names for the varying specs of pipes available, such as leased lines, T1 etc) and both ways work at the same speed. Cynical types might also think that ISPs make the download speeds over ADSL slower so corporates will buy more expensive access pipes rather than making do with consumer technology. However, fat dedicated pipes are now so cheap that you can get a pair (for resilience) of dedicated symmetric lines for not much more than a standard consumer link.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
That puzzled me as well, if you look at Simba's post then his connection is rated as 85% faster than others. but his download speed is 3x slower than mine. How ever his upload speed is just over 7x faster than mine.
So they must work out the grade and the fastness of someones connection as a download and upload. By that, I would agree that there is little chance that 19% of the UK internet users do not have a connection faster than 49.78Mb/s.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Just switched to TalkTalkBusiness, saving about £3 a month and this the new result ...
I used a different speedtester and it came up with 6.57 Mb/s and 0.67 Mb/s.
I am pretty close to the Hebden Bridge exchange (which is good), but my router is on the end of about 50 ft of cheap telephone extension cable (which is not so good) so I'm fairly happy with those figures, given a theoretical maximum of 8 Mb/s.
I'll try connecting the router to the wall socket on the ground floor, thus eliminating the telephone extension cable, and see if that is any faster.
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BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
- Location
- Iskele TRNC & Mordor UK
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Yeahbut ... you probably have to live somewhere big enough to get a Virgin Media cable service and I get to live here ...I probably shouldn't but... oh, gowan then.
We aren't going to get cable until BT finally roll out FTTH.
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I'm not quite in the middle of nowhere here, Colin, but there is a sign out the back that says "Beyond". 
And your place looks positively urban, considering I just have to cross this bridge to this place. 
We're stuck between two towns, about 8km from the exchange in either which is right at the extent of reach for broadband. Cable was the only way we could get above 0.5meg lines (this was my result a month ago) and we had to argue with Virgin for about 4 months to get them to even acknowledge that the cable ran along our road.
And your place looks positively urban, considering I just have to cross this bridge to this place. We're stuck between two towns, about 8km from the exchange in either which is right at the extent of reach for broadband. Cable was the only way we could get above 0.5meg lines (this was my result a month ago) and we had to argue with Virgin for about 4 months to get them to even acknowledge that the cable ran along our road.
