How good is your ISP?

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12 Oct 2007, 9:20 am

Boy, am I glad I'm moving from mine next week.

Here's a speed test I did today (for a 2MB ADSL line):

I'm tearing my hair out - gah!

Yours,

Frustrated of England

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12 Oct 2007, 9:31 am

I'm syncing at 12mbps/1mbps on my ADSL2+ plan...

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12 Oct 2007, 10:15 am

tequila, have you tried scanning for adaware or spyware, viruses and clearing out cookies and temp files(if you use windows) that might also help speed up the adsl

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12 Oct 2007, 11:02 am

I use a Mac, so there's nothing sucking away energy. I get on my new ISP on Monday morning - instead of getting 250kbps I should end up with more like 7000kbps download.

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12 Oct 2007, 1:49 pm

Tequila wrote:

I use a Mac, so there's nothing sucking away energy. I get on my new ISP on Monday morning - instead of getting 250kbps I should end up with more like 7000kbps download.

nice upgrade what isp will you be moving up to??

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12 Oct 2007, 1:53 pm

This speed test has some unreliable mirrors:

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12 Oct 2007, 2:12 pm

I'll be moving to ADSL24, one of the best ISPs there is. On Monday morning my Internet heart will be pleased more and more by the hugely improved Internet connection. Zoom!

alex: I know it's a little unreliable. I'll hunt round for another one soon.

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12 Oct 2007, 7:50 pm

From nearly 3 weeks ago, but can't be bothered doing new tests to say the same thing:

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12 Oct 2007, 8:09 pm

Hendikins, are you on Bigpond's Cable Extreme? Because they're some pretty good speeds you're getting...

.. new test with P2P turned off.

EDIT - and I see you're on the 'other' WP too...

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12 Oct 2007, 8:14 pm

surroundfan wrote:

Hendikins, are you on Bigpond's Cable Extreme? Because they're some pretty good speeds you're getting...

My primary link is, my secondary link is 1.5/256 ADSL with Internode. See my Whirlpool user profile for details.

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15 Oct 2007, 6:49 pm

My download speed appears to of gone up when I chose the Fredrick one. Even though I am much closer to DC hmmm. I don't know what any of this really means. But, I heard in finland some lady had a download speed of 1gb.

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16 Oct 2007, 8:23 pm

Here's my result:

This is not the whole truth though -- I know my connection is good for a full ten megabits/sec both ways, so there's got to be a few "bottlenecks" out there...

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23 Oct 2007, 3:21 pm

I use Brighthouse Roadrunner for internet. Not the fastest DSL but alright DSL for what i`m doing.

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23 Oct 2007, 3:40 pm

Here's the test for my school network.

My home connection:

The closer server seems to be slower, but a lot of this depends on traffic

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24 Oct 2007, 8:36 am

It's ok, but not great. I do like that it is pretty consistent though.

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24 Oct 2007, 7:20 pm

says easynet,but thats because it's their servers,it's sky broadband,have got it running wirelessly and networked but mostly have the connection to self,and have found it to be a very reliable ISP.

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