Is your ISP lying to you? Test your speed here

Speedtest

Be careful about what you say there:

- Your link is contended so you won't always get the given speed.

- The speed is a recognised up to speed.

- Your ISP may throttle certain activities at peak times (such as P2P)

- 2Meg is 2Mbit not 2MByte.

- It depends where the server is relative to you, if the server is in the US you might get congestion from elsewhere slowing the link down.

- Make sure nobody else is using your link at the same time as you do the test.

Sorry but that statement is pretty inflamatory to anybody who works in a networking company, and I used to work in an ISP. Quite often it is just the wholesale provider link is contended as the contract the customer signed accepted. Thats why it's called a 50:1 contended 2Mb link.

I prefer this one myself

http://www.broadbandspeedtest.net/

As for ISPs misleading people , I have much more of a problem with them advertising huge download speeds with a miniscule data allowance.

What on earth is the point in a 16mb ADSL line with a 1GB per month cap?

Download your entire monthly allowance in not many minutes at all.....

I think I'll stick with an unmetered 10mb connection from telewest. I downloaded 8GB yesterday in a couple of hours.

well, i've just run a quick test of my connection:

Bandwidth reading of:

40.40Mbps

which means you can download at 5.05 MB/sec. from servers...

Sustained download speed reading of 10,380 Kbps.....

Thank you, and good night.......

Depending on your ISP, there may be a transparent web proxy in the way also.

Indeed

Also I totally agree with the high rates with tiny allowance, a complete waste of time.

I can have 8Mb, but I'm staying on 2Mb totally unlimited as I run a few services for myself and don't want the hastle.

I use this one

http://www.abeltronica.com/velocimetro/pt/?idioma=uk&newlang=uk

TweakTCP is a great little registry tweaker which usually gives 20kb/sec more and it's free!

I got a download speed of 456kbps and upload 233kbps?

Is that slow or average. I am asuming it is not fast.

Don't know much about broadband.

I have been upgraded to a 4mb BB line on NTHell. Was a free upgrade so im not complainng.

I just ran the test on mine .. I am on bt with 2.2mbps

got 721kbs on download and 237kbs on upload

just did another test on a 11.3mb file and it downloaded

in 51 seconds ........ not sure if that equates ???????

would be interested on any comments on that

You are contended 50:1 at the exchange, run the test abt about 3am and you will probably get a good refelection of the top end of the speeds you can get off your line.

Also with the 'free upgrades' to faster lines, just watch out for the ISP introducing bandwidth caps on the higher speed lines that you may not have had before.