Thanks for that

You sound like you know what your talking about, so I will take your word for it that all is as it should be

Cheers

Damian

Thanks for that

You sound like you know what your talking about, so I will take your word for it that all is as it should be

Cheers

Damian

Yes I should. I've been working on Openreach Broadband since it started.

The 11meg is also probably faster than your PC would be able to cope with if you have an off the shelf home PC.

Going to have to stop you there. 1.3MBps~ write speed? Have I missed something?

The 11meg is also probably faster than your PC would be able to cope with if you have an off the shelf home PC.

Also have to pull you up here.

A 486 can cope with 11MBps and any modern PC can cope with at least 100Mb and many with a decent NIC and CPU can probably 1Gbits without a major issues.

Ok, I,m not too hot on the the PC side of things but I have found lots off people have marvellous download speeds however their Pc's just don't seem to display the web pages on the sceen any faster. Is this due to the graphics card or other components in the PC?

Displaying a web page has very little to do with outright download speed, it has more to do with DNS lookups and latency. Also which browser is being used can affect page displays as some of them render and/or deal with pages differently

Ok, I,m not too hot on the the PC side of things but I have found lots off people have marvellous download speeds however their Pc's just don't seem to display the web pages on the sceen any faster. Is this due to the graphics card or other components in the PC?

It's usually down to the broadband line being synched at speed X (say 11Mbits) and the data only being sent down the line at a much slower speed. This can be due to cr*p service, under provisioning of bandwidth by the ISP, contention at the exchange, routers dropping packets, lots of people using the site in question or just the sites in question being unable to supply 11Mbits to 100 concurrent users and so giving them 300k each instead under the better 100 at 300kbits than 1 at 11Mbits way of thinking.