Have you been STMd incorrectly? - Page 3

**Chris** · 13-10-2008, 11:12

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Originally Posted by Gary L

No, it's true read it.
If it's wrong then by your reckoning 512kbit/s is 3Mb

Yes, my multiplication above was wrong, but then you are also misreading the words you have bolded. They use a capital letter for K, which denotest that they mean bytes, not bits.

A 56 kilobit modem would be expected to achieve a speed of about 7 kilobytes per second.

Gary L · 13-10-2008, 11:18

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Originally Posted by Chris

Yes, my multiplication above was wrong, but then you are also misreading the words you have bolded. They use a capital letter for K, which denotest that they mean bytes, not bits.

A 56 kilobit modem would be expected to achieve a speed of about 7 kilobytes per second.

So when they say 512 is that 0.5Mb (512k) ?
if it is then what is 80?
about 11 dial up modems.
if you were on the 8Mb that would be about 1168 dial up modems.
they take 1157 dial up modems off you, which makes it just a little bit faster then the olden days dial up modem

Broadbandings · 13-10-2008, 12:06

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Originally Posted by Chris

Yes, my multiplication above was wrong, but then you are also misreading the words you have bolded. They use a capital letter for K, which denotest that they mean bytes, not bits.

A 56 kilobit modem would be expected to achieve a speed of about 7 kilobytes per second.

Capital K doesn't mean anything for what's after it, you're thinking of a capital or small B, one meaning bits the other bytes.

They wrote bits, and meant bits. Check Thinkbroadband's Virgin Media ADSL forum for more information from customers who've been hit by the higher strength throttling and are reporting 10kB/s (kiloBytes) download speeds - some even lower.

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Originally Posted by Chris

80kbps is 640K, which is still faster than the first ever broadband service I had, which was 512K.

80kbps is 80kbps - are you referring to 80kBps?

Back to the point, top 2% are considerably throttled, as low as 80kbit/s for a week, top 5% (I think) in any one hour during peak times go to 512kbit until midnight.

I have no idea what those thresholds would be to break either of those boundaries, even approximately. http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk...ml#post1552513 suggests that 5.9GB in a week is likely within the top 5%.

darthlinux · 13-10-2008, 13:03

That is really bad

Gary L · 13-10-2008, 13:54

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Originally Posted by darthlinux

That is really bad

Can I ask that you try and quote what you're replying to? it could be something that was said 5 posts ago. I can't tell

darthlinux · 13-10-2008, 13:59

look at the post above mine

Gary L · 13-10-2008, 14:03

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Originally Posted by darthlinux

look at the post above mine

Yes but sometimes someone could have posted in the time it took yours to appear. so then the post above yours wouldn't be the one you were replying to.

Nevermind. carry on

Pete2 · 13-10-2008, 18:30

So what's the difference between having your modem 'moderated' and STM then?..

Gary L · 13-10-2008, 19:11

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Originally Posted by Pete2

So what's the difference between having your modem 'moderated' and STM then?..

Nothing. moderated is just a posh word for it being STMd.

Pete2 · 13-10-2008, 19:29

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Originally Posted by Gary L

Nothing. moderated is just a posh word for it being STMd.

Oh right. Sounded a bit more personal than STM

cook1984 · 13-10-2008, 22:28

I guess it sounds better than "throttled"...

The whole network is a joke these days. In the evenings I can't even watch YouTube videos, STM'ed or not.

Pete2 · 14-10-2008, 07:01

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Originally Posted by Jelly

I find that if I do the Cableforum Speed Test at the top, it'll either give me 10MB or 2.5MB. The latter means I've been STMd.

Interesting. Whenever I use that speed test it's always around this..

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:52:58 GMT

Test 1: 1024K took 1248 ms = 820.5 KB/sec, approx 6761 Kbps, 6.6 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 1406 ms = 728.3 KB/sec, approx 6001 Kbps, 5.86 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 1369 ms = 748 KB/sec, approx 6164 Kbps, 6.02 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 2828 ms = 724.2 KB/sec, approx 5967 Kbps, 5.83 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 6223 Kbps, 6.08 Mbps

I find this speed test gives me the lowest results out of them all

darthlinux · 14-10-2008, 12:07

I have only been stm'd once out of hours however when I am stm'd my speed is fixed and stays at 5Mb