• Concern at broadband speed claims
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-12611315[/url]
this is good. how dare virgin media promise me 10megs, yet only give me 9.89megs!
This IS good, i only get 1 Mbs on my 10Mbs line... ...and thats Virgin :ohdear:
I can get the full 20Mbps download speed on my 20Mbps connection... ... To a Virgin Media server. Elsewhere the speed is naturally quite variable, but speedtest always reports above 19Mbps so I'm perfectly happy with my service. [editline]e[/editline] The biggest problem I actually see to consumer awareness of Broadband speeds is advertising them in bits, not bytes. However, as this has become a worldwide standard it is now unavoidable.
[QUOTE=subenji99;28374407]I can get the full 20Mbps download speed on my 20Mbps connection.[/QUOTE]What area of the country do you live in?
[QUOTE=madmax678;28374965]What area of the country do you live in?[/QUOTE] I get 19-20Mbps out of my 20Mb connection and I live in the South East.
Strange, I have always gotten the up-to speed. If I didn't, I would be pissed. Hell I usually get way over the up to speed. AKA, I was advertised 15/15 mb/s. I got 16/35 mb/s
[QUOTE=madmax678;28374965]What area of the country do you live in?[/QUOTE] The Midlands, between Manchester and Birmingham.
I get 20Mbit/s on a 12Mbit/s line service ... its odd.
Its rather annoying how they advertise in megabits per second and provide no disclaimer to try and fool people, wish they would just go with megabytes to make it less confusing or both.
I mentioned this some time ago, and it seems like it's one of those things no one cares until they notice it isn't there a difference between MBs and Mbs ? the lowercase b is byte or something
[QUOTE=subenji99;28374407]... The biggest problem I actually see to consumer awareness of Broadband speeds is advertising them in bits, not bytes. However, as this has become a worldwide standard it is now unavoidable.[/QUOTE] Speed's always been measured in bits, it dates back to a time when computers didn't share the same concept of a byte. The bigger issue (IMO) is that people don't get that 1 Mbps = 1,000,000 bps.
[QUOTE=MasterG;28379097]Promised: 4000kb/s Delivered: 700kb/s [/QUOTE] I pretty much get the same in the South East. That's on a good day...
Hmm, why does the BBC think a USB cable is a CAT 5 cable?
I had a problem like this in the past, with Sky Internet. We were promised 8mbit download speed, and received only 5-40kb/s on a good night. It's all fixed now, though. It just meant changing providers.
94mbit of 100mbit? Outrageous!
107 out of 110mb/s here. [editline]2nd March 2011[/editline] [URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/1180763333.png[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/1181127438.png[/IMG][/URL] :australia: That's on an overpriced 1.5 line.
Supposed to get 2mb/s Actually get around 200-500kb :saddowns:
Most of the adverts I see and hear advertise "up to" whatever speed not "you will get this speed"
[QUOTE=MasterG;28379097]Promised: 4000kb/s Delivered: 700kb/s I live just outside london, it's hardly a remote area. [editline]2nd March 2011[/editline] That's really bad. I look at [b]you Americans with ridiculous speeds with your huge country[/b], and we can't get over 6Mbps[/QUOTE] Ha, you kidding me? [editline]2nd March 2011[/editline] [url]http://speedtest.net/global.php#0[/url] The US isn't even in the top 10.
[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/1181206586.png[/IMG][/URL] [editline]2nd March 2011[/editline] Paid for a 20Mbit line :smug:
Up to 20mbps, get 13mbps with Sky Broadband.
They say up to a certain amount. If people are complaining then they are idiots who can't read properly.
I'm in Canada, and my speed is advertised of being 20 Mb/s I get 13 at average, unless using Steam, I seem to max it on steam.
I get about 46 mb/s on a 50 mb/s connection from Virgin Media, so I'm not complaining.
[QUOTE=Theman!;28377853]I've had so many problems with Virgin Media it's almost unbelievable now, i'm capped seemingly 24/7 purely from playing games every now and then and browsing web pages which is ridiculous. After upgrading to a 20Mb/s line I never get the connection I should and spent about a month having internet that cut out every ten minutes, whilst getting the same guy in an Indian call centre who just went over the same solutions every time I rang.[/QUOTE] This. I had this exact same problem The solution really is just to switch to someone else, like BT. Never had a problem since [editline]2nd March 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=markg06;28382279]Most of the adverts I see and hear advertise "up to" whatever speed not "you will get this speed"[/QUOTE] Thats because its physically impossible to say you WILL get 20Mb/s.
[img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/1181241276.png[/img] Supposed to be getting 8, but that's not too bad. Besides, ofcom have been going on about this shit for ages. Still hate how slow the upload is. Works out to about 42KB a second.
[QUOTE=Coffee;28382699]They say up to a certain amount. If people are complaining then they are idiots who can't read properly.[/QUOTE] The problem is that "up to" is vague and can literally mean anything. When paying monthly for a service you shouldn't be forced to only receive "up to" a the amount they advertise. You wouldn't recieve [i]up to[/i] a certain amount of water/electricity/gas. I know networks and the internet in general is a hell of a lot more complex than that but IPS's are just using the whole "up to" phenomenon to cheap out on infrastructure and pocket the profits instead of bettering their aging networks.
[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/1181251568.png[/IMG][/URL] Paying for 24 mbit/s download and 1 mbit/s upload, not too bad. The thing that pisses me off though is that my ping is 20-50ms higher everywhere compared to what people near me has.
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