NZDavid Posted July 29, 2009 Share #1 Posted July 29, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) In New Zealand, I believe our broadband speed lags behind. Typically under 1Mb/s download and upload, though I can push it to 3.6Mb/s if I am lucky. I'm not sure if that is the reason, but this site is taking ages to load. Waiting 15 to 30 secs for each post to download at the moment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted July 29, 2009 Posted July 29, 2009 Hi NZDavid, Take a look here How slow is your connection?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
andybarton Posted July 29, 2009 Share #2 Posted July 29, 2009 Upload 0.20MBps Download 6.28 MBps That download is pretty good for British Telecom, but it is mid morning, and I am working from home today. In the evening, that will drop to about 2MBps My connection is sold as "Up to 8MBps", but even if you connect in the exchange, you can't get 8MBps. I live about a mile away. People who have a cable enjoy much, much faster speeds here. But most people don't have that option. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted July 29, 2009 Share #3 Posted July 29, 2009 Testing a server in Wellington NZ, I get a download of 2.68MBps and a faster upload than when testing a Manchester UK server speedtest.net Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spylaw4 Posted July 29, 2009 Share #4 Posted July 29, 2009 Using the London server that speedtest connected me to - download 5.99Mbit/s, upload 0.39Mbit/s. I reckon that is not too bad. Like Andy I'm on a supposed 8Mbit/s line. It gets slower in the evening and my ISP (Plusnet) will I believe limit speeds if the load gets very high. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted July 29, 2009 Share #5 Posted July 29, 2009 I sense a bit of confusion here with respect to the units involved. You can express the speed of your connection both in bits per second or bytes per second. Hence 1Mb/s is one megabit per second while 1MB/s is one megabyte per second. One byte holds 8 bits, so 1MB/s is roughly 8Mb/s. I have also seen people refer to their bandwidths in terms of mb/s (, although not in this thread) which must be rather heartbreaking. Millibits (or thousandth of a bit) per second is about one billion times slower than 1Mb/s; transmitting 1000 bits (or 125 bytes) would take one second. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arbo68 Posted July 29, 2009 Share #6 Posted July 29, 2009 NOW via speedtest: Download: 54,33 Mb/s Upload: 13,29 Mb/s My other DSL line is somewhat slower (Download ~16 Mb/s. Upload 2,4 Mb/s) :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepiareverb Posted July 29, 2009 Share #7 Posted July 29, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) You guys don't know how good you have it. In rural Vermont I get 300kbps today. About average. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobey bilek Posted July 29, 2009 Share #8 Posted July 29, 2009 In Chicago it will take about 5 sec or less to open a website, same with a thread like this using DSL service. When I had dial up, it was painful. I do have problems watching streaming videos ( Yahoo news videos & photosho tutorials ) sometimes and sometimes not. Middle of the night is better than day time. I think part of the problem is not necessarily connection speed, but the website server. I think they get overloaded and bog down. Then there was the N. Korea problem a few weeks back. I almost went to dialup speed for most of the day. I then heard the news about their denial of service attack. The next tuesday is happened again, but not so bad. Yesterday was normal. I am pretty well convinced the problem now is more server speed on the other end of the line. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted July 29, 2009 Share #9 Posted July 29, 2009 Wilmslow UK Download 3.14 mB/s Upload 0.69 mB/s Link to rant in Barnack's Bar: http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/barnacks-bar/93537-bt-broadband.html#post979505 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Wong Posted July 29, 2009 Share #10 Posted July 29, 2009 Here at Dad's house, they pay for 6mbps from AT&T, and it pulls 5.2mbps down, 0.65mpbs upload. This is good, but not nearly as fast as the Comcast cable I pay for at home, also 6mbps. It normally achieves 10+mbps downloads, and 2+mbps uploads. Not the fastest available, but I'm satisfied, and don't want to pay a lot more. Both connections provide similar experiences when just browsing sites like the forum or ebay, but I notice that Netflix buffers much quicker at home. -Steven Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZDavid Posted July 29, 2009 Author Share #11 Posted July 29, 2009 It's as I thought, NZ is pretty slow. Yes, we have cable, but few places do and the ISP throttles back the speed. We also have a wireless router. Mb/s or MB/s -- confusing! I checked again this morning with Speedtest and got an average of 2.51 Mb/s download and 1.22 Mb/s upload. We also have data caps -- I am on 5GB per month. Does anybody else have these? Data caps and speed are the limiting factors for broadband here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravastar Posted July 30, 2009 Share #12 Posted July 30, 2009 I'm with Virgin Media in the UK (fibre optic with RF for the last 40 yards) and routinely get 8Mb/s download during off peak times, during peak times that reduces to about 6-7Mb/s. I only pay for an "up to" 10Mb/s service though and have a 10Mb/s ethernet link between a very old modem and the PC which is somewhat limiting. Virgin do introduce speed capping if you download too much during certain times, which means you can only download for about 10mins before having your speed reduced, see Virgin Media Broadband:Traffic management - & Traffic management They say if you want to download more, pay for a faster service "up to" 50Mb/s, then when you are capped you'll still have a reasonable rate. An interesting approach to making money . There's no capping off peak and I've downloaded 30-40GB of public domain software and commercial updates without problems. Bob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcorton Posted July 30, 2009 Share #13 Posted July 30, 2009 I still have dial-up. Brent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jank Posted August 12, 2009 Share #14 Posted August 12, 2009 I have just checked it. 25-30 Mb/s receive and better than 5 Mb/s upload. Checked to servers in Washington, Chicago and SF. However it slowes down quickly after first 100 MB . I am on cable ( Comcast) in northern Indiana. Jan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimF Posted August 12, 2009 Share #15 Posted August 12, 2009 At present I'm using a mobile BB widget, which was OK to start with, but from December 08 to earlier this year, and then again in the last two or three months it's been diabolically slow as often as it's been running up to speed. And by diabolically slow I mean slower than dial-up - I've had "speeds" down into the single digit BYTE range at times!!! What's worse is that the wretched thing can be running perfectly one minute, then suddenly grind to a complete halt the next, and speed up a bit again, then crash again. Specifically concerning this site, I can't see any pictures hosted here unless I sign in again for a second time - and that only works for a single photo at a time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted August 12, 2009 Share #16 Posted August 12, 2009 I'm on an ADSL2+ link that yields 15-18 Mbit/sec down and 1.5 up. I'm waiting for a fiber link to become active, its installed, but not hooked up to the rest of the net. Then its just a matter of how much I'm willing to pay. I'll get phone, television and net over the same glass cable. - Carl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leica dream Posted August 12, 2009 Share #17 Posted August 12, 2009 In the middle of the UK between Nottingham, Grantham & Newark I get just 600Kbps on a good day, but even that keeps dropping out. Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_x2004 Posted August 13, 2009 Share #18 Posted August 13, 2009 Mine has to go all the way to sydney which is 50 miles after the local exchange . Off Andy's link; 0.24Mb/s download. 0.05Mb/s upload. 0.74 Ping Is that good or not quite so good? Is it excellent? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_x2004 Posted August 13, 2009 Share #19 Posted August 13, 2009 Heh ... Tipping its not too bright huh? ..... [ATTACH]156742[/ATTACH] Still its probably all garbage, they are just looking to sell something. Bit like all the on line IQ test someone got me to do that rate me somewhere just below genius. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted August 13, 2009 Share #20 Posted August 13, 2009 Wilmslow UK Download 3.14 mB/s Upload 0.69 mB/s Link to rant in Barnack's Bar: http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/barnacks-bar/93537-bt-broadband.html#post979505 Now more than doubled, with new equipment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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