Broadband speedtest

Thanks to everyone for your replies. Sorry I haven't got round to replying until now but I've been quite ill. I will get to the laptop later today and read through and answer you all

All the help given is much appreciated
 
First thing I would do is check what channel the router is on. I know that I had 2 people next to me join Virgin and mine dropped right down.

I logged onto the router and changed the channel from 11 (I think that was the default) to 7 and it was instantly faster.
 
kelack said:
We've been finding our laptop quite slow so I did a broadband speedtest. The results came out at

Download speed - 1.27 Mb/s
Upload speed - 0.245 Mb/s

Is this crap?

And could it also be my laptop?
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if those figures are in megabytes/s and not megabits then they are about right for a 14 megabit connection

my rule of thumb is to divide the megabit figure by 10 and it will give you a close enough figure of what download / upload speed you can expect in megabytes per second

on the other hand if the figures are in megabits per second the bottleneck could very well be the wireless connection depending on the router and wireless card in the laptop
the older white wireless routers sky was handing out were netgear 54g wireless routers and not that great for wireless throughput

i would try using an ethernet connection from your laptop to your router to see what the difference is
 
Just an update on all of this, it's got a bit of a problem the last few days. I had to leave an upload to my website overnight on Sunday - 33 pictures!! They took 5 hours to upload

I set an upload of 181 pictures - 137mb at 9.16pm last night to SkyDrive, they are still uploading now

It's taking on average 6 minutes for each picture to upload

Going to dig out the cable tonight and have a play and try the suggestions mentioned. I hope that I don't have to leave my laptop wired all the time though as it will mean rerouting cables etc :( and where our router is located is the only place it will go in the house and won't be very convenient for me to be crawling on the floor under the stairs in a few weeks to be unplugging and plugging etc when I'm in plaster. It's partly the reason I haven't managed to do any of the suggestions yet as my ankle has prevented me from crawling around much
 
I imagine your upload speed is probably capped, at least at peak times.

I'm not too far from you and it would literally be quicker for me to post a cd of images to flickrs hq in wherever than upload them.
 
arad85 said:
Since we're willy waving :D:

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Sorry, that's not willy waving :D

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How are you getting these speeds!!!
 
Oh and an update. My laptop is crap :D

Phoned Sky and went through an hour of troubleshooting. Once the ethernet cable is in and going into the Sky admin speedtest thingy it was saying 7mb for download and 0.7 for upload which is about the top average speed for our village.

He told me to do a netstat thing in my command prompt and apparently my laptop is running loads of things.

So it needs an overhaul basically. I've tried ending processes manually but they just all run again when I turn it on. I have run full scan through Avast as well as there's nothing
 
neil_g said:
Fibre optic
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:(

No chance of that round here then. Copper cabling all the way to an antique exchange :LOL:
 
Willy waving? What about this then...



Oh, wait :thinking: :help:
 
Slow upload there :D

 
Byker28i said:
Sorry, that's not willy waving :D

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Pah... Your ping times are poo.... and only 4Mbit up :p Since I did mine last, my ISP has done something that has reduced my ping times back to something more sensible:

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Although IW as getting this earlier in the year:

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Co location servers in near enough the same rack don't count Dale ;)
 
Shhhh ;)

My home speed is similar to yours on infinity
 
kelack said:
Oh and an update. My laptop is crap :D

Phoned Sky and went through an hour of troubleshooting. Once the ethernet cable is in and going into the Sky admin speedtest thingy it was saying 7mb for download and 0.7 for upload which is about the top average speed for our village.

He told me to do a netstat thing in my command prompt and apparently my laptop is running loads of things.

So it needs an overhaul basically. I've tried ending processes manually but they just all run again when I turn it on. I have run full scan through Avast as well as there's nothing
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Well, good to know it's not a line fault and once the wireless was eliminated you were getting full speed.

You could try posting a hijack this log which would show all the stuff that loads at startup.
 
OK, what do I do? :LOL:
 
What spec is your laptop?

Control panel> system will tell you the basics if you don't know.
 
Iffacus said:
same here :shake: all the adjacent exchanges are grey as well :crying:
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We have one that is within the next 3 miles but it is down the bottom of the North Downs :LOL:

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RobertP said:
What spec is your laptop?

Control panel> system will tell you the basics if you don't know.
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Not a clue, will have to look when I get home
 
kelack said:
We have one that is within the next 3 miles but it is down the bottom of the North Downs :LOL:

Not a clue, will have to look when I get home
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Yeah the rollout is quite frustrating, my actual exchange is same distance away as the next two local towns of significant size already fibre enabled and taking orders, but has not been out on the rollout plans until recently and even this is just "sometime 2013"....my brother just moved, connected up with sky at 40mbps to one of those other exchanges and has already been told Openreach upgrades will be getting him 80mbps download speeds at no extra cost in the coming months....ho-hum...
 
OutLore said:
At last, I got there :) Being limited by the network card now. I have a server around here somewhere that has a 10Gb card in it...:LOL:
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I'd worry about that ping ;)

Nice connection!
 
WOOP WOOP

Just upgraded to fibre, gone from 0.9mb to 43mb :banana:

Can now watch a video online and download / stream a film while watching.
 
Just moved apartments and PCCW offered to waive the 80-quid relocation fee if I paid an extra 7quid a month to upgrade to 1000Mb :>

Unfortunately my router is only 10/100 so I can't do a proper speedtest yet.
 
mid_gen said:
Just moved apartments and PCCW offered to waive the 80-quid relocation fee if I paid an extra 7quid a month to upgrade to 1000Mb :>

Unfortunately my router is only 10/100 so I can't do a proper speedtest yet.
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You'll probably find the router can't cope with that speed anyway.... even if you find a host that can :p
 
The recent doubling of speed from Virgin has been very worthwhile for me:-

gramps said:
Virgin 50mb using wifi connection to laptop.

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Following the speed doubling and a recent router re-boot:-

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Kelly, if your main socket looks like this

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Unscrew the bottom part and theres whats called a test socket inside, plug straight into this socket instead, took my download speeds from a miserly 1.3mb to 6.3 and upload speed from 0.27 to 1.13
 
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