SpeedTest; What you at?

[cwspellowe]

Wireless on an older Virgin 50Mb connection. Speeds not yet doubled in the area.

Phil your upload is still at the 50Mb rate, the re-tiering isn't complete yet but you'll get 10Mb upload after the migration later this year/early 2013. Forf now you still have the 50Mb upstream rate.

Also bear in mind speed test results are a load of crap, it's based on so many factors like how loaded the server you're testing from is. I've installed 100Mb packages and got speedtest results of 2Mb before, then used a proper FTP speed test and got bang on the money.

As for "more fibre" on the network, that's a load of bollocks. The telecomms backbone of the UK is all fibre and it has been for donkeys years. Our 10Gb business broadband uses the same stuff as the residential stuff. Along with mobile telecomms and BT infinity. Any "bandwidth" is shared and leased between companies. Hardly any new fibre gets installed, it just gets borrowed. Cabinet equipment gets upgraded though, so with BT you got ADSL followed by ADSL2+ and ADSLMax, all affecting speeds. The BT Wholesale network will never compete with fibre and HFC though, hence BT launching infinity. Only real benefit of that over Virgin is the upload speed though.

Fibre stuff's awesome though, it's an area I want to specialise in one day. Fibre engineers get paid £1500 a WEEK in places like Dubai! And one fibre strand can handle 100,000 phone calls simultaneously, as opposed to 100,000 individual copper phone lines. Mental.

And the SuperHub? Pretty crap cheap Netgear rubbish tbh. But the CAN be made to work. Issues with wireless channels aren't router specific though. Channels 12 and 13 don't really work with most commercial equipment, they're crap choices. Pretty much all the channels you need from an interference point of view are 1, 6 and 11. Anything else inbetween crosses over and interferes, so if those three channels don't work well the rest won't either...