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Hi, i stay about 3 miles from an exchange well out in the country. I've been on a 4 meg deal for years now and always only managed just over 1 meg on a good day. this is with various incarnations of win XP, vista i've had over this period. Work laptops, friends etc . I've had BT look at it, reset it on many ocasions and they always assured me i could almost hit 4meg.

Now i've recently got a new desktop with windows 7 and i've just run a speed test and achieved 3.8meg . :love::eek::love:

let me repeat that - 3.8 meg. :love::love::love:

now before i get too excited, could this be just a coincidence or has Mr Gates finally managed to get something right?

Anybody else finding this with windows 7?
 
I got win 7 but it makes no difference to WWW.
As far as I understand your PC has little bearing on how fast a line you get you can use an old P4 and it will still work as fast. The internet is much slower than your PC
You’re lucky I am not hitting 2Mg here
 
Perhaps BT have done some upgrades and it's just coinicdence.
BT are working on fibre optics to the green cabinets and their 21st century tech.
As Chaz has said, your PC won't have any bearing on your broadband speeds.
 
hashcake said:
Perhaps BT have done some upgrades and it's just coinicdence.
BT are working on fibre optics to the green cabinets and their 21st century tech.
As Chaz has said, your PC won't have any bearing on your broadband speeds.
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Wish I get copper one make it run faster all we got is Aluminium ones :'(
 
BT are upgrading the exchanges at the moment to accept the new 21CN (20mb) lines, it might of been that that sorted your connection out. id be extremely surprised if windows 7 sped your internet up..
 
oh well, its worked a treat whatever happened. i was just worried incase i was back down to 800k rubbish soon, but if BT are upgrading then its certainly worked :thumbs:

AL
 
I am inclined to agree with everyone else, I dont see how Windows 7 could have increased your broadband speed.

Although my laptop was struggling to get 1 bar of wireless signal with XP and with Windows 7 it gets 4 bars.....same driver as well.
 
wasn't just a blip either..



i totally get the fact that its nothing to do with my operating system. Obviously just coincedence . Still fantastic.
 
check your router stats and see what your line noise is like. Also do the bellwire fix if you run your router off an extension.

You might not improve it but it's worth checking.
 
I get 50mb installed on Thursday - good thing too, this 20mb line is far too slow....:banana::exit:
 
just tested mine
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Foggy said:
I get 50mb installed on Thursday - good thing too, this 20mb line is far too slow....:banana::exit:
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What could you possibly need 50mb for?

The only legal thing I can see you 'might' need it for is for streaming HD video

20mb is more than fast enough for anything
 
I beleive windows xp had a fixed tcp rwin value, but that was abolished with Vista where Vista automatically adjusted it as you went along. Sometimes changing the value in XP made a change, but since the OP said he has used a few distributions since then I must agree that BT has probably done an upgrade.

Im using a cheapie virgin media line..
 


lame - my router says i'm connected at 16mbps on a 24mb ADSL line. roll on proper fibre optic internet in 2 weeks.
 
to be honest id take those speed testers with a LARGE pinch of salt, depending on which one you use youll get a different result every time.

they dont even work properly with our big PHAT pipe at work.
 
noneforit said:
What could you possibly need 50mb for?

The only legal thing I can see you 'might' need it for is for streaming HD video

20mb is more than fast enough for anything
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Actually, it was more for the upload than anything. I run an IT company and spend a lot of time shifting about 6-7GB databases so any difference in speed is very much appreciated, I just wish I could get a similar upload to download.

Oh, and it only costs £1 a month more for 50mb than I was paying for 20mb so might as well :)

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Ref the original post, it's possible that your old antivirus/firewall software was throttling your connection. If it's set to check everything that comes through it can slow things down considerably.
 
Sorry on the second post, i thought i was editing my first, could some nice administer delete it for me please, Thanks
 
Steep said:
Ref the original post, it's possible that your old antivirus/firewall software was throttling your connection. If it's set to check everything that comes through it can slow things down considerably.
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Very interested to read that.

I have Virgin Media 10MBs Internet and two computers.

One is a 10 year old 1GHZ AMD machine running Win XP with Zone Alarm and AVG anti virus, and the other is a year old Toshiba laptop with newly installed Win 7 AVG and Windows firewall.

The laptop uses a wireless connection and if I put them next to each other on the desk and run the same speed test on both (one after the other) the PC will only show about a fith of the laptop speed (laptop is 9 times out of 10 between 8-10Mbs).

I am now wondering if, as said above, the PC is struggling to firewall and anti virus the incoming data, previously on our 1MBs connection it hadn't been a problem (and I had nothing to compre it to).

I see a new computer on the horizon.

Thanks for the advice

David
 
Willid1 said:
Very interested to read that.

I have Virgin Media 10MBs Internet and two computers.

One is a 10 year old 1GHZ AMD machine running Win XP with Zone Alarm and AVG anti virus, and the other is a year old Toshiba laptop with newly installed Win 7 AVG and Windows firewall.

The laptop uses a wireless connection and if I put them next to each other on the desk and run the same speed test on both (one after the other) the PC will only show about a fith of the laptop speed (laptop is 9 times out of 10 between 8-10Mbs).

I am now wondering if, as said above, the PC is struggling to firewall and anti virus the incoming data, previously on our 1MBs connection it hadn't been a problem (and I had nothing to compre it to).

I see a new computer on the horizon.

Thanks for the advice

David
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Try your AMD with Zonealarm and AVG off, if much faster then use XP as your firewall and perhaps Avast as your antivirus.
 
Mikesphotaes said:
Try your AMD with Zonealarm and AVG off, if much faster then use XP as your firewall and perhaps Avast as your antivirus.
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Quick update on this. I found two of the components in AVG that were scanning all incoming internet traffic were probably the culprits, turning them off seemend to have a marked effect on the download speed.

Will have a play again tomorow as the PC has just died (not related to this problem I hasten to add) and I have had to pinch my sons PC, he hasn't realised yet :D

David
 
also worth a note, a couple of my colleagues have mentioned recently "I-plates".

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BT-I-Plate-In...K_Computing_Networking_SM?hash=item1e58cad011

(can get them cheaper but thats the first link i had to hand)

basically the cable that comes in to your house contains extra cables for the older type of phones that required power to fire the ringer. this plate fits between the master socket and the faceplate (will only work on the newer type of master socket with the test socket under the faceplate) and disconnects/filters those cables.

a couple of guys here use them and they rave about them for speed and stabilty increases.

worth a poke at £5-8 maybe?
 
noneforit said:
What could you possibly need 50mb for?

The only legal thing I can see you 'might' need it for is for streaming HD video

20mb is more than fast enough for anything
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You're forgetting or not aware of something called contention ratio. The ADSL pipe supplied by non-cable companies is actually shared by 50 or more users. The higher the capacity the less impact others users will have on your speeds.

Cable companies work slightly differently, but then you'll find that your television is pushed through the same connection which will also have an impact.
 
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