TFMF Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 512kbps down. 256kbps up. Slow as anything, i know. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnot Borg Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 56k dialup, I'd be lucky to get 48k because usually it's about 42-46k. If I could afford your speeds, I'd be flying compared to what I get now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 wow, still using dial-up, that's prehistoric man. :o From what I've been told 'low speed broadband' is actually cheaper nowadays than dial-up in most countries. o, btw, I'm on a 10Mbps/256kbps corporate connection, along with 10 other users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megalith Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 atm i have 'upto' 8M/256k but in reality its 1M/256k an BT aint prepared to upgrade their 1970's technology :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones2097 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 OOOoooo i got 2M down. 256k up..... really dl speeds are 190 kb/s ul speeds are 20 kb/s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 atm i have 'upto' 8M/256k but in reality its 1M/256k an BT aint prepared to upgrade their 1970's technology :( Yeah, i'm on BT too, and my 512k down is meant to be 8M down ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilander72 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Mine is faster than all of the above combined and few more Mbps to spare. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnot Borg Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 wow, still using dial-up, that's prehistoric man. :o From what I've been told 'low speed broadband' is actually cheaper nowadays than dial-up in most countries. o, btw, I'm on a 10Mbps/256kbps corporate connection, along with 10 other users. I have my reasons for dialup at the moment. It's slow but at least I get here. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maybrick Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 I have no idea. I have dsl. So far as I know, I don't think I've ever downloaded anything faster than 180kb/s (and that speed's an extreme rarity). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones2097 Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 yeah you got a 2 meg line!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyran Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 10 down 512 up but it's going up to 20 down 750 up soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slug Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Don't forget the bit byte distinction. 10 Mb down, rarely reaches that. I swear I got a letter from NTl saying they were going to double it but it never happened. Although I did once hit a consistent 1200Kb/s but that may have been a bad software calculation. Most I've pulled is 4gb in one hour, straight off servers. Drool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maybrick Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 That's CRAZY fast! Don't think I have much call for those kinds of speeds, though. What I got is A-OK with me. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feluxe Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 16 Mb down 1Mb up ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 16 Mb down 1Mb up ;D Hand it over. This need not get ugly... :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted July 20, 2007 Author Share Posted July 20, 2007 I just ran a test, and got the oddest of results: From what i can tell, BT have upgraded my line so i get double the download speed. I'd ignore the upload and ping - i seem to be having problems there :p EDIT: Yes, that's right - i have a connection now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slug Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Mine hit 1.82mb/s downloading the other night. Which would seem to corroberate that Virgin have in fact doubled all the 10mb connections. In which case it would seem that ever actually reaching that speed is very rare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted July 21, 2007 Author Share Posted July 21, 2007 Yeah, Virgin have upgraded all there hubs apparently. Lucky bastards :p And a 10mbps connection is not the same as 10 mb/s. 512kbps gets you around 50kb/s download 10mbps gets you around 1mb/s 20mbps (Which is what Virgin have upgraded to) gets you around 2mb/s (but very few people reach such speeds) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slug Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Don't forget the bit byte distinction. As I said, connection speed in bits, data in bytes. at 8 bits to the byte. And yes, it does seem rare to reach the 20 megabit/2 megabyte threshold. They also seem to have stopped the annoying business whereby they take a direct debit out of my account one month, fail the next then cut me off saying that I haven't paid for two months a further month later. Then I have to spend a day on the phone to India having already taken apart my computer to see what the problem is. They did that twice. NTL seemed to consistently fail at basic accounting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Quick reminder: The way to correctly use it (at least, that was what they taught me a few years back): 1B = 1 byte = 8 bits 1b = 1 bit Notice the difference in capital "B" and regular "b"! In case you're talking old skool (historical/legacy): 1kB = 1024B This is the way most people (including myself) still use these units even though, since a couple of years it's actually incorrect according to international standards. The new units are: 1kB = (10^3)B = 1000B 1kiB = (2^10)B = 1024B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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