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xxtimbo
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Its all down to the service providers, in my case... BT
their promises of up to 20 meg broadband sound great
but right now.......... 5 pm sun afternoon......
I reckon my broadband at the moment is about 1 meg if that
Its taken me over 20 mins just to get onto digi spy to post this rant.
Ive tried to do a speed check with Broadband Speedchecker but
get the message........ no server available
so theres not even enough b band to do a speed test.
Could be that sun a noon is a heavy usage time for BT and
lots of customers get a crap service.
Everything feels so slow and laboured right now,
I should close it all down and go do something more interesting
their promises of up to 20 meg broadband sound great
but right now.......... 5 pm sun afternoon......
I reckon my broadband at the moment is about 1 meg if that
Its taken me over 20 mins just to get onto digi spy to post this rant.
Ive tried to do a speed check with Broadband Speedchecker but
get the message........ no server available
so theres not even enough b band to do a speed test.
Could be that sun a noon is a heavy usage time for BT and
lots of customers get a crap service.
Everything feels so slow and laboured right now,
I should close it all down and go do something more interesting
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It wouldn't take a quarter that time on dial up.
Try this one .... http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/
You could do that but you may need the internet for something in the future like booking a ticket. In which case investigate the problem and the first step I would take is to listen for any noise (hissing, crackling) on the line when the internet is slow.
I went there and saw I was downloading about 450 k per sec.
I switched off torrents.... suddenly I found I could do a speed check
I came in at 5.5 meg .....
Which I suppose ive got to be satisfied with !
( makes me wonder how we ever lived with 56 k dial up back in the
2001 era ! )
You should set speed limits for download and upload on your Torrent client.