show me your broadband!

[trm]

Chrome on Win7 x64. Virgin provider. VPN client running in the background too.

 

[Setch]

Ok I wasnt going to post this until I saw the "you guys have slow broadband comment"

upload is normally about 9MB but I forgot utorrent was uploading when I did this check a few months ago.

Will be moving up to 100MB as soon as I move house..

Setch

 

[guddler]

Git!

I find it all he more frustrating living outside of a decent net area now

 

[Setch]

Its a disease though..

Now ive had it for a year I find even 10MB BB slow, so cant go back now.

Only Half of my town "Aylesbury" has cable so finding a house, with suitable gameroom storage is proving difficult.

Even with this kinda speed certain sites are still limiting the speed in which you can download stuff, youtube still sucks for example.

but get me on the newsgroups and I can download a 700MB film in about 70 seconds, 7.6Gb 360 iso in about 15 - 20 Mins (rough estimates)

 

[trm]

Aha. It appears we have a fraudster in our midst...

I zoomed into Setch's pic and realise it was shooped as I could see the pixels! Pressing undo a few times gave me this:

Seems like a USR 57.6KB/s modem to me!

Does that make you any happier Martin?

 

[guddler]

I dunno. It's still A+ you know!

 

[Setch]

Love it

 

[Alpha1]

Alpha12011-06-09 18:21:01

 

[trm]

Normally a bit better, but it's UK peak time.

...and there's almost 1000 users on the site atm

 

[Alpha1]

Mines hanging off a 10mb pipe from one of our London Datacentres, I've had a look but there's not a good server to run this from up there - i'd be silly to run it on anything other than a VDI but we don't have one available.

 

[guddler]

Normally a bit better, but it's UK peak time.

<font ="Apple-style-span" color="#cccccc">...and there's almost 1000 users on the site atm

Hey, that's cheating! RapidSwitch is your co-lo isn't it??

 

[trm]

Hehe. It is indeed. Bro is leeching all my bandwidth

 

[Bensonrad]

Mine is a pile of cak!

Download: 3.77mb/s

Upload: 0.32mb/s

Ping: 57ms

Its with plusnet and is traffic shaped at this time of day, after midnight the restrictions come off.



Bensonrad2011-06-09 22:30:29

 

[andyman]

Although Virgin are ba$tards, I can't complain at the speed £60 month inc tv & phone but only for cabled areas, all you lot out in the sticks have no chance.

Andy.

 

[favouredson]

all you lot out in the sticks have no chance.

I live within 10 mins walk of the town centre and there is still no cable near me.

 

[andyman]

As Virgin would say, "Its coming"

 

[DanP]

all you lot out in the sticks have no chance.

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I live within 10 mins walk of the town centre and there is still no cable near me.

Agreed, I live in the London commuter belt and no sign of any cable here. If someone offered 50mb+ BB round here they'd make a fortune with all the City types who'd take it up instantly. My BT BB may be (relativley) slow but it has been very reliable.

 

[DaveAS]

ADSL24 LLU (uses BE network, same as O2)

Should approach 24M nearer the exchange. I'm about 1.5 miles away.

£20 pm, no shaping, no cap. The only way to go faster round here is to use Virgin cable. Past experience with them has taught me to stay away.

--
Dave

 

[Adrian Purser]

I've been using BE for a while also and have had no problems.

 

[Guests]

cheers Dave and Ade