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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #240 on: April 6, 2008, 03:54:42 pm »
Well I'm from Egypt, but I'm living in New York, yeah. ;D

any good?

I always had a feeling that you was from australia, i don't know why though! ???

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #241 on: April 6, 2008, 03:56:39 pm »
any good?

I always had a feeling that you was from australia, i don't know why though! ???
New York any good or Egyupt any good or internet any good? You have me lost :P
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #242 on: April 6, 2008, 04:00:38 pm »
New York any good or Egyupt any good or internet any good? You have me lost :P
And, Australia? Hahaha, I don't know what could have made you think that :D

new york?


i don't know why myself haha, just a feeling...

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #243 on: April 12, 2008, 12:26:16 pm »


This is what i get and i only pay for 2 meg

How the hell could i get a better upload speed?
« Last Edit: April 12, 2008, 12:31:23 pm by BURNA »

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #244 on: April 12, 2008, 12:34:34 pm »
you cant, thats top whack currently.
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #245 on: April 12, 2008, 12:36:35 pm »
you cant, thats top whack currently.

Thanks mate, just as i expected.

Wonder when Virgin are going up to 50 meg max. I heard they are at some point.

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #246 on: April 12, 2008, 04:26:38 pm »


This is what i get and i only pay for 2 meg

How the hell could i get a better upload speed?
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #247 on: April 13, 2008, 10:23:01 am »
I saw this posted on HUKD yesterday and gave it a go. Has anyone else tried it?

http://www.dslzoneuk.net/socket.php?type=interactive

My speed seems to have doubled and I'm not kidding you. It's basically unplugging unnecessary wires in your phone's master socket and extension sockets, particularly the "bell" wire which apparently isn't needed anymore. I suggest making a note of what goes where before you do this though just in case. Worked for me anyway, before this I was getting around 1500kbs and now it's up to 3000kbs :)

PS: This is for UK phones.

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #248 on: April 15, 2008, 07:31:29 am »



woohoo i win
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #249 on: April 15, 2008, 08:16:17 am »
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #250 on: April 16, 2008, 01:49:22 am »
Virgin Media/Telewest

are sneaky as FUCK..they open up bandwidth to the major speed benchmarking websites. Very naughty.

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #251 on: May 1, 2008, 10:21:32 pm »
I did 2 here is my summary (Basic Broadband from BT)



IP Address:
  (BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS)
Last Test Date:
    10/10/2007
Total Tests Taken:
    2
Fastest Download:
    953 kb/s
Fastest Upload:
    223 kb/s
Average Download:
    951 kb/s
Average Upload:
    219 kb/s



Just signed up for a new 12 month contract with BT and got this...
Download 3266 kb/s
Upload 368 kb/s

Almost 4 times quicker download - yeahhhh
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #252 on: May 5, 2008, 05:38:10 pm »
NTL/Virgin Media off in my area at the moment. No TV and no Internet,. using the Web'n@Walk off my 3G phone, but 3G is not in my area so it's like going back 10 years and using a 33k modem. At least I can play GTA IV on my 360!

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #253 on: May 7, 2008, 02:20:33 pm »
AOL 8MG

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #254 on: May 7, 2008, 03:25:28 pm »


Works pc.
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #255 on: May 9, 2008, 06:26:22 pm »
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #256 on: May 12, 2008, 05:11:18 pm »
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #257 on: May 14, 2008, 02:58:10 pm »


which is strange


i did it again using the london one instead:

« Last Edit: May 14, 2008, 02:59:42 pm by Slidey »

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #258 on: July 26, 2008, 07:05:29 pm »
8meg bt



10 minutes later


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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #259 on: July 26, 2008, 07:15:13 pm »

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #260 on: July 26, 2008, 07:16:40 pm »
8meg bt



10 minutes later



shit upload but great download....u on ur first week with them?
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #261 on: July 26, 2008, 07:21:07 pm »
shit upload but great download....u on ur first week with them?

Great? It's 200Mbps!

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #262 on: July 26, 2008, 07:36:47 pm »
Great? It's 200Mbps!

I have control on my excitation :P
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #263 on: July 27, 2008, 03:58:57 pm »
3rd year but just changed to bt anywhere.

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #264 on: July 27, 2008, 05:59:32 pm »
The tool is not to  be trusted. It maxed out at 8Mbit for me, though I've measured double that on downloads before.
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #265 on: July 27, 2008, 06:18:17 pm »


Tiscali 8meg my arse!!!
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #266 on: July 27, 2008, 09:51:04 pm »
Orange Broadband with the free livebox.



Was quite surprised to be honest, because i can only reach speeds of 175kbs when downloading torrents or generally anything from the internet, and when uploading on utorrent, i reach speeds of about 10 ???

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #267 on: July 27, 2008, 11:21:58 pm »
Orange Broadband with the free livebox.



Was quite surprised to be honest, because i can only reach speeds of 175kbs when downloading torrents or generally anything from the internet, and when uploading on utorrent, i reach speeds of about 10 ???
Dude, those numbers are kiloBITS not kiloBYTES. You have to divide by 8, which leaves you at about 200KB/s, which is pretty much spot-on given the overhead needed by the protocol.

The website provides BULLSHIT results.

As I posted above, it showed that I have half the bandwidth I've regularly observed. When you're talking about modern DSL speeds, these apps need to be taken with a pinch of salt: if you've got just 100 people trying the app with 16Mbit DSL lines at the same time, that's nearly 200 megabytes per second load on the server.

If you want to measure your speed reasonably accurately, grab yourself a program that measures bandwidth at your NIC or per network connection locally, and download two or three Linux ISOs from different FTP servers at the same time. You'll get a much more accurate idea of your maximum speed.

It's also worth mentioning that some older routers can't handle that kind of bandwidth well, and, particularly over WiFi, your router may be the bottleneck, not your actual connection.
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #268 on: March 11, 2009, 02:37:48 pm »



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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #271 on: March 11, 2009, 03:27:51 pm »
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #273 on: March 11, 2009, 03:57:38 pm »
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #274 on: March 11, 2009, 05:55:20 pm »
2meg virgin   :D



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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #275 on: March 11, 2009, 06:07:04 pm »
Just upgraded from an 8 meg BT line to a 20 meg O2 line, stunning difference ;D

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #276 on: March 11, 2009, 06:12:18 pm »


Supposedlly getting 8Mb ::) I'm lucky if i get more than 40kb p/s on any download i do. 

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #277 on: March 11, 2009, 07:05:01 pm »


jackh, that is funny as fuck
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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #278 on: March 11, 2009, 11:47:28 pm »


jackh, that is funny as fuck

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Re: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest
« Reply #279 on: March 12, 2009, 02:31:44 am »
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