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[bigflyersmallbyer]

franthree, on Sep 19 2008, 11:36 PM, said:

Since bigflyersmallbyer is in the UK--does this work with U.S. DSL--not cable.

It should do yeah.

[Mr-Sim]

But I should get half of half, plus this hasn't made any change

[bigflyersmallbyer]

Mr.Sim, on Sep 20 2008, 02:21 PM, said:

But I should get half of half, plus this hasn't made any change

The speed is affected by distance from the DSLAM and line conditions.

[mjrhealth]

Why do speeds vary when other users get on its all about cost. Your provider has to lease bandwidth and say he has 50 customers that require 50 meg each so he needs to lease 2500 meg of bandwidth, at whatever the cost. Now this is very inefficent and expesive as it is not alwyas used so he assumes that at peak times they may only need 1000 meg of bandwidth so thats what he pays for. All is fine uuntill that day when everyone wants there max bandwidth at the same time and of course speed drops . Plese correct me if im wrong, read about it in a course.

[bigflyersmallbyer]

mjrhealth, on Sep 20 2008, 11:22 PM, said:

Why do speeds vary when other users get on its all about cost. Your provider has to lease bandwidth and say he has 50 customers that require 50 meg each so he needs to lease 2500 meg of bandwidth, at whatever the cost. Now this is very inefficent and expesive as it is not alwyas used so he assumes that at peak times they may only need 1000 meg of bandwidth so thats what he pays for. All is fine uuntill that day when everyone wants there max bandwidth at the same time and of course speed drops . Plese correct me if im wrong, read about it in a course.

Actually here in England there are a few ISP's (ie Virgin Media) that use traffic management. Users who exceed a certain amount over a period will have there speed adjusted, but Virgin Media (A.K.A Telewest/NTL) are one of a few ISP providers that use Traffic Shaping.

You only really see this happening when you getting BB down a fiber optic/coax cable line.

Most of the ISP' providing BB down a copper line only have a bandwidth limit of around 2GB-250GB+. BB down a copper line is cheaper thats mainly why most people choose it over Fiber Optic/Coax Cable.

F.Y.I i am paying £5 Per month for a 40GB limit for a 8MB connection.

Edited by bigflyersmallbyer, 21 September 2008 - 02:03 PM.

[AlexLloyd]

P.S, download speeds average = 150-200kB/s!!!

Edited by Tootyscooty2, 31 May 2009 - 08:49 AM.

[Peter797]

bigflyersmallbyer, on Jul 3 2008, 12:49 PM, said:

Speedtest.net is unreliable i  suggest this.

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/

I'm sorry but that's a dumb statement...

Your site and speetest.net is the exact same principle except different UI..lol

[bigflyersmallbyer]

Peter797, on May 31 2009, 03:28 PM, said:

bigflyersmallbyer, on Jul 3 2008, 12:49 PM, said:

Speedtest.net is unreliable i  suggest this.

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/

I'm sorry but that's a dumb statement...

Your site and speetest.net is the exact same principle except different UI..lol

Its not a dumb statment maybe I posted it at that time because they were having sever troubles? I was getting 30MB down with the former.

[learjet45dream]

I remember this topic.
I don't think my internet needs to be much faster for anything I do

[Invisiblemoose]

learjet45dream, on May 31 2009, 07:50 PM, said:

I remember this topic.
I don't think my internet needs to be much faster for anything I do

I'll trade some of my down for some of your up?

[jetblast787]

thank God I don't need this; I'm probably the only person in the UK getting 8.5mb on a 8mb connection

[Jonay]

I'll wait till i get home to see what mine is.. i think its suppoed to be 8, we're with Sky.

Right now at work its 586Kps down and 7.4Mb up.. and a 132 ping

[bigflyersmallbyer]

Jonay, on Jun 1 2009, 02:30 PM, said:

I'll wait till i get home to see what mine is.. i think its suppoed to be 8, we're with Sky.

Right now at work its 586Kps down and 7.4Mb up.. and a 132 ping

You can reduce the pings down to there 30's (I have) email then and tell them your a gamer and ask them to reduce your max delays.

[Jonay]

what are the pings anyway?

Now that im home.. Im supposed to be on 8mb/s but im actually 7.1 down, .3 up and 111ms ping

did the tweak

and exactly the same!

[bigflyersmallbyer]

Jonay, on Jun 1 2009, 07:40 PM, said:

what are the pings anyway?

Now that im home.. Im supposed to be on 8mb/s but im actually 7.1 down, .3 up and 111ms ping

did the tweak

and exactly the same!

This did the trick on XP vista seems to be more optimized. You won't get the full 8MB unless you have a noise free line and love less that 2~> miles from the exchange.

[learjet45dream]

Invisiblemoose, on May 31 2009, 08:54 PM, said:

I'll trade some of my down for some of your up?

Meh, college.
Whatever dude.
I love my comcast thought <3

[seat183]

Hoped from 6MB to 9MB , thanks.

[ukmatthew]

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i never was happy with my speeds for what i pay for. Im with Virgin Media which used fibre optic lines. Its there 20MB Connection.
It does nothing for your upload though which is disappointing. Ive always been very disappointed with my upload especially.


Anyway. Very Good.

[bigflyersmallbyer]

The uploads isn't affected by line length because of its low speed (so ever line theoretically is capable of the max its IP sets), until we get uploads equal to the down speed we shouldn't be worried about it being affected to line length a

Edited by bigflyersmallbyer, 13 June 2009 - 09:12 AM.

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