SpeedTest; What you at?

[ginge191]

What speed you on??




The island has just received FibreOptic. Are we just behind? but paying very little a month for 20mb/s is pretty awesome with some awesome download speeds on all my legal media! Currently loving this!

[C.A.R.]

Was at mum and dads last night downloading some 'perfectly legitimate files' from the interweb, they live close to the towns' exchange and I thought I'd do a cheeky speedtest. Was amazed that their 50mb Virgin connection was recording 65mb/s!!

Barely ever get that 'actual' speed though, perhaps when loading web pages. It's crap at buffering video or maintaining a constant download speed on a file bigger than 1mb. Shocking firmware from Virgin Media frankly.

[Mattcheese31]

read it and weep Ginger . .

[cpikey316_]

Sky Broadband is ghey....

[Scott]

Got upgraded to 100mbit last week...Full speed transfers from the server ftw! Shame it's not symmetrical though.

[Toms306]

Better than usual, reckon they must've got some fibre optics somewhere along the line now. So much for 20Mb though lol.

[Tom]

Cornwall FTW

2nd time bit better..

[Toms306]

That doesnt make sense, mine says slower than 75% of GB, yet yours is only slower than 66%......................but I'm pretty sure 3.99 is slower than 7.

[kernow_joe]

100mb/s superfast here, had it for a long time, living in the sticks in the middle of Cornwall

[CJ_Derv]

Sky Broadband is ghey....

My sky used to be the same, they have you capped until you complain about slow speeds and if your running the old router white netgear one they are shite so get on the phone complaining and youl be shocked what happens i went from the same as you to 20+

Even my Samsung S3 gets better download speed than that without a wifi connection lol

CJ

[tsotd]

slow....

[ginge191]

...this is quite amazing; constantly receiving 'island trolling'

[CJ_Derv]

These are figures from phone in my tin buidling at work shit signal and middle is Girlfriends dads Bt infinity connection the upload speed people have are not even over 2MB this is rapid lol

[cully]

speed from work lol!

[Scott]

Phil you should be able to get faster internet than that from your phone! I get over 3mbit from mine!

[4WayDiablo]

Is it Dave's SIG? His at over 100 or something g

[Diggers]

heres mine

good i supose as i pay for 10mb internet

[HDIkyle]

Im with Sky and with upto 20mb i get 0.6mb/s :/ Have to load the forum afew times to get it to fully load its getting silly now all they can say for themselves is there must be a line fault. Had it set up exactly the same way for over 2 years and never had a problem before

[Stephen]

Mine at home was 0.2 untill we rang up and complained. Now it's 1mb which seems fast haha

[Rippthrough]

[Niall]

Supposed to be 120mb
Absolutely shite wifi. Need fooby to work his magic next time he's round!

[Scott]

You're using your iPhone though right?

[Niall]

I did there yeah. I can get 95-100 if I'm right near the router but since we've had this shitty VM router, wireless is terrible and following the instructions to set it up as a modem for my time capsule doesn't work.
Wired, the mac gets 135-140 on a good day!

[Rippthrough]

The VM superhub is complete shit for signal strength, if the BT openzone routers 200ft away change channel it knocks my SH off! Complete bag of wank, my old Netgear G gave a better signal.

[Scott]

Not that the iPhone 4 can take advantage of it (I think that's what you've got), but you can try activating the 5GHz Wireless N band. It'll be less congested and you should be able to get better signal when you're not sat right next to it.

http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfs...TYPE=Cable

For your iPhone though, I wouldn't expect much more than you have already to be honest.

[Rippthrough]

Yeah, problem is the SH can't transmit on dual bands, so if you need the 2.4ghz for the phone yer f*cked.
As soon as the AC routers come down a little in price it's getting switched to modem mode!

[Niall]

The VM superhub is complete shit for signal strength, if the BT openzone routers 200ft away change channel it knocks my SH off! Complete bag of wank, my old Netgear G gave a better signal.

Exactly! When we used to have the small modem only connected to our time capsule, I could get wifi half way down my road. Now I only get it in my room because it's also connected to the time capsule. If I switch and use the vm router, it won't work in my room which is only 3m away in a straight line.

[Rippthrough]

It goes off completely on some of the low channels (3/4/5 are all shocking), it's ok on 1/5/6/7/9/11/12 though, 1 and 12 are a bit low on signal strength.

[Scott]

The channel is more to do with other routers operating on the same channel and causing interference, so channels 3-5 being slow are due to others in your area using the same channel.

[Rippthrough]

Nobody in my area uses those channels, the superhub flakes out using them, it's a known issue.