Check your internet speed

(03-08-2010 23:00 )Deb x Wrote:  UK is 27th out of 201 countries for broadband speed.
Do those Asian and Eastern/Northern European countries at the top of the table get a faster service just because they pay more, or is there some other explanation? Anyone know?

South Korea is top of that league, perhaps because of the amount of US involvement in the country...

"The road to Good Intentions be paved with Hell"

Virgin
DL 9864 kbps
UL 466 kbps

Cable

(03-08-2010 16:10 )Jam Da Man Wrote:  Using the site listed above....
My 3g dongle, at 17:04pm -
Downloading - 378kbps
uploading - 790kbps

21:15 -
57 kbps downloading
323 kbps uploading
It just gets worse!

"The road to Good Intentions be paved with Hell"

Magnet Broadband (ROI)

Download 6120Kbps
Upload 923Kbps

Happy days!!!

Sky BB (Today,1pm)
Download 2648Kbps
Upload 414Kbps

Weekdays its normally 4mb

Thought id hijack this thread with a question, im already a bit techy but more with programs/software, rather then cables, i currently have my sky bb modem plugged into my computer with a poundland ethernet cable and i have the rj11 cable plugged into some cheapy adsl filter which is then connected to a 20 metre telephone extension (also from poundland) that is plugged directly in the the B.T master socket, now clearly i know im going to lose alot of my speed through my set up, so any suggestion on how to make my bb more efficent? and which brand cables/adls filters are the best ?

Netgear Super Wireless ADSL Router DG834GT is the modem i have

maybe adding that post to this thread was a bad idea

Do a test first in the master socket first to see what speed your losing through the extension cable then go from there.

One thing you could try is removing the bell wire from the socket, I did it last month and gained an extra meg