I've just had my broadband connected to my new house after 2 weeks. My router is showing a 8meg download but the actual speed from various speed testing website is 2meg. I know where I live has good download speeds as my friend across the road gets 7.2meg downloads. How long will it take to get the same speed as I've heard about something called "training periods". If it helps, my connection date was supposed to be 16/4/09 but it came on yesterday (9/4/09)

For upto 2 weeks. Best thing you can do is thrash your connection as much as pos with streaming video etc (assuming you're unlimited) and/or download large files which are a few 100mb a go.

I am unlimited. Good job I am as I downloaded 2gb yesterday

also keep rebooting the router say every day or somthing.

What service is it?

I just setup a Nildram ADSL2+ system for a client at work and she gets 12Mb Download tested on verious speed testing. I am well impressed with it.

if your sync'ed at 8meg that should be right... i would wait and see if it goes up when you pass your "actual" go-live date.

Getting 800kb/s downloads today and speed testing is saying 6.8mbs speed. I'm really happy with the speed and if it goes up then it's a bonus. I'm with Pipex but on a normal exchange

don't get confused between bytes and bits. your connection speed is measured in megabits and I think your talking about the download rate of a file in kilobytes.

I freely admit to not understanding the difference but I do know 1 bit doesn't equal 1 byte. 800 kilobytes/second sounds like a pretty good download speed to be honest.

There are 8 bits to a byte. A 8 mbits/s download speed actually tanslates to 1mb/s. If I can maintain the 800kb/s download then I'll be happy

It will fluctuate, possible drop as the exchange tries you at every speed and tests your most stable speed.

I have 7.9mbit speed with Orange, although sometimes just about scrape 1m/b speeds during peak times. Still for £4.88/month, I'm not grumbling.

The Nildram/Pipex/Tiscali speedcheck address is - DSLConnect UK - Speedtest

this is what i'm getting from home, so i dont want to hear any compaining about 'only' getting 6.8megs

Not too shabby I suppose

Why does the computer you run speedtest from seems to make such a difference.

One laptop gives me 6.2Mb/sec, the other gives me 2.2 but they are both using the same connection.

I suppose it could be the fact that one has a b wireless card and the other has a g compliant one.

Thats mine....better than ISP average it says , still dunno if its good or bad tho lol

Not too shabby i dont think

for me at the moment

it's only on 512k then?? it would be quicker using royal mail than using email from here

Not bad for 20meg I suppose.

Edited 13 April, 200917 yr by apinner

I love these willy waving contests lol

Until someone does one from work tomorrow with a super connection:rolleyes:

My speed today was 0. My router passed away during the night and would no longer connect to the ADSL signal. You could hear the modem noises through the phone. It will be sadly missed as I have had it many years.

I get this

2208 kb/s down

458 kb/s up

I have no idea whether this is good or bad but Im told its the fastest my exchange will allow. Im with BT via phone - there is no cable here (or gas or mains sewerage for that matter).

Got this from thinkbroadband

Date 14/04/09 21:21:59

Speed Down: 11412.86 Kbps ( 11.1 Mbps )

Speed Up: 1003.86 Kbps ( 1 Mbps )

Thats over a wireless network with 5 laptops (including mine), a desktop (wired) and xbox360 (wired), and its a BT line

That's good considering from your post is seems like you could be in the middle of nowhere

Yes people are often surprised at our lack of ameneties especially as we're only 5 mins from the M42 and 25 mins from the centre of Brum.