What's your speed?

[Mark Blanchard]

Blimey Mark - I'm impressed, thought I was the only one in a backwater with less than 1Mb...at least mine only costs £9.50/mth!

Hi Mike,

I saw yours too, it's not much fun is it. Thing is I'm not in a backwater, I'm 5 miles from Reading and 1 mile from Henley! 940k per second internet in this day and age is truly hopeless.

[mayevora]

Quality!!!

[Vulcan Grey]

Comcast cable modem in the US

[Günter]

http://www.speedtest.../1639892459.png

..still faster than anything else I had so far

(Fonic-UMTS internet stick vs. prior 44kB -analog *call-by-call* modem)

Edited December 10, 2011 by Günter

[rogerch]

Just re-tested mine after some internal mods to cabling.

Ever get the feeling you just wasted 2 hours !

[Quicker]

mine - time warner extreme..

Edited January 13, 2012 by Quicker

[Sparky]

The only thing I would ever pay Virgin for:

I must admit it's blisteringly fast and very consistent.

[internets]

And Virgin are going to double speeds over the next year FOC apparently...so that should be 60Mb soon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16491614

[Guest surferphil]

I don't know much about computers but mine is slow.

[MPx]

Things are getting worse...

...please send chocolate

[Bibs]

??

[gt111]

Look at the positive.... 9% of GB is still slower than you! (probably Cornwall)

[SteveSmith]

[gt111]

Thats just showing off!

[MPx]

Look at the positive.... 9% of GB is still slower than you! (probably Cornwall)

Actually Cornwall is mostly pretty good - hence how its attracted all those "working from home" types whose surfing gets them wetter than the rest of us. Cant help thinking the 9% are not using broadband - and hopefully not paying for up to 8Mb. Maybe I'll get me some of them pigeons!

Edited February 2, 2012 by MPx

[Bibs]

I live in a barn, on a farm. Broadband is pretty poor (4mb at best) despite the fact we're only a few miles from the county town. There are 2 exchanges nearby and we're connected to the one slightly further away. I understand this is because wires are routed to boxes etc.

Now the other exchange, which is slightly closer, has high speed internet and ours has no plans. Are the junction boxes in some way connected, is there a chance BT can switch us to a different exchange?

[oneshot]

Unlikely

Houses are wired to concentrators on estates (usually green cabinets in the street). These then backhaul to the exchange. You will be connected to a specific exchange probably via a concentrator and it is not simple to rewire to a different exchange.

[lotus4s]

I guess this is pretty good then...

Edited April 19, 2012 by lotus4s

[oneshot]

Now with go faster stripes!

BT Infinity 2 if anyone cares

[arbell9]

[shawty_82]

Hmm, not bad!!

Edited June 3, 2012 by Tim Shaw

[B1 RMA]

Just checked mine Download 46.53. Upload 16.70. Ping 10ms its my new Infinity fibre optic

[obione]

Checked ours yesterday, and we are smokin....

Download - 1.6mb/s

Upload - 0.425 mb/s

And that is with the wind in the right direction

[Malcolm Feth]

[dodgy]

bit better than i had before