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Do you want to check yours? :-0


http://www.uswitch.com/broadband/speedtest/

Download speed:
9.5Mb

Upload speed:
0.9Mb

Provider:
Sky

Download 10.4Mb
Upload 7.5Mb
BT (Infinity)

Mind you, 2 hours ago it was zero :-|

We usually use speedtest.net and couldn't get on to that! Still not sure it it was our end or a BT server problem.

Download 0.8Mb

Upload 1.2Mb

:-S

Download speed:
32.6Mb

Upload speed:
1.9Mb

Provider:
Virgin Media

So why the :-0 Budgie? Is yours supposed to be faster than that?

If anyone needs to :-0 or even :-| it's Graham.

Is yours cable Budgie? we used to have that where we used to live and when we moved here had to continue for a while with Virgin otherwise pay them about £100

According to that site Virgin isn't that good here (down the phone line)


1.9Mb
Avg. of 8 tests
more info


0.5Mb

Hi jax
yes `I`m on cable .
I did try 2 other test sites as well and got higher readings but I will stay with the lowest reading.

The two other test site readings were..
34.06 and 2.35:
33.30 and 2.09:

Ah DetEcTive our internet was down this morning too!

Download 29.3 Mb
upload 6 Mb

Provider: BT Infinity

Using Speedtest.net, the results were

37.71 and 9.06

Unless something has changed in last 30 minutes, thats a tremendous discrepancy

GlasgowLass - that's reassuring, in a way. So not just us :-D

Using this test

http://www.speedtest.net/

I got 1.39 & 1.36

speedtest gave me a result of

10.84 download

0.95 upload

2.19 Mbps download, 0.58 Mbps upload - it must be a good day for me! Download speed in the past has been much less than dial up :-( - Sometimes I struggle to keep up with conversations on GR chat threads.

No cable in our area, 10 miles away from a major city. Talk Talk is my provider promising up to 3Mbps, the same as the others.

Download 61.4
Upload 2.8

Virgin Media (cable)

Using speedtest it was 62.92 and 2.88.

I would much rather have the Virgin package again, instead of Sky....at least you didn't loose your picture on the TV when there was a bit of rain :-D

BT have reportes problems today.

Virgin OK if you have the right lines into your house!!!

But very few BB providers can guarantee the speeds to each and every house that they advertise. As there are far too many variables

The volume of users in your area
The distance you are from the exchange!
And the general location of your home, ie tall buildings etc.

My PC is Wifi to the main pc but it was
13.8Mb download and 2.7Mb upload. Virgin Cable
main pc is 53.8Mb download he didn't say what the upload is. Also Virgin of course. Shows what a difference WiFi makes.

There's a much greater volume of users than normal in my area this week. That's probably what's causing my slow broadband connection.

Would that affect it? Can you hear it from where you live?