Broadband speed

[angieb53]

Is a download speed of 783 and upload of 250 normal for a 10mg package? That is what I've just been told by a VirginMedia phone operator. Surely this can't be right.

[martyh]

sounds about right to me as long as you mean kb/s the speed you state should be read as 7.83mb/s down thats how i interpret it anyway

[PowerUser]

sounds about right to me as long as you mean kb/s the speed you state should be read as 7.83mb/s down thats how i interpret it anyway

7.83mb/s :confused: that's about 75MBit connection...So I think that definitly
not right..

[Ignitionnet]

Is a download speed of 783 and upload of 250 normal for a 10mg package? That is what I've just been told by a VirginMedia phone operator. Surely this can't be right.

Miles off.

In other news your name is familiar. K?

[Jonathan90]

Simpler terms your getting under 1 meg and PowerUser you got your bits and bytes mixed up.

[AbyssUnderground]

7.83mb/s :confused: that's about 75MBit connection...So I think that definitly
not right..

Don't confuse the values.

mb/s = Doesn't even exist (m = mili not mega, and mili ;))
mB/s = Again doesn't exist because m = mili ;)
Mb/s = MegaBITS/second
MB/s = MegaBytes/second

[A Dave]

Don't confuse the values.

mb/s = Doesn't even exist (m = mili not mega, and mili ;))
mB/s = Again doesn't exist because m = mili ;)
Mb/s = MegaBITS/second
MB/s = MegaBytes/second

And that's before we begin discussion on what a 10 milligram package might be.....

[PowerUser]

Simpler terms your getting under 1 meg and PowerUser you got your bits and bytes mixed up.

I didn't get anything mixed up at all. I thought it was pretty obvious we were talking about Megabytes per Second, Just becuase I typed a lower case letters people are accusing me of being wrong :rolleyes:.

Here's the correction for all those contancorous old twits who just like to pick at people responses..when it was obvious what I meant..

As 7.33 "mb/s" doesn't get used by Anyone It can ONLY mean

7.83MB/s that's about 75MBit connection...So I think that definitly not right.. ;)

[deakin]

Oh sweet jesus.. not this old arguement again.


Angieb53, going by those numbers you posted your connection is running at just over half of what it should be. A 10 meg connection should get approx 1200 kbps

to keep this simple..

most speed test sites use kbps.
120kbps is approx 1meg
you are getting 783kbps

783 / 120 = 6.52 meg

if you were getting the full 10meg you would have seen a result of approx 1200kbps,so you are only getting just over half of what you should be getting.

[Ignitionnet]

Gordon Bennett.

Some seriously bored people here.

The clue is in the initial enquiry people:

Is a download speed of 783 and upload of 250 normal for a 10mg package?

That's what India said is ok, they are hardly going to tell her 250kB/s is fine for upload, so we must assume bps, in which case everything is miles off.

[angieb53]

Hi everyone, I'm really confused now!!! I'm using speedtest.net to measure the speed and the results are in kbps. Right now it's running at 509kbps download and 392kbps upload and I have virgin media's L package.

[Noggo]

Hi Angie and :welcome: to the forum.

Your L package should give you a max. download speed of 10000 kb/s and a max. upload speed of 512 kb/s. Note these are maximums.

Took me a while but your speedtest result should look something like this on a good 10Mb connection: click here (http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34693684-post167.html)

To me your speeds don't look right and would suggest a problem somewhere.
Download: 783 & 509 kb/s
Upload: 250 & 392 kb/s

Have a look at your modem config pages.
click this link http://192.168.100.1/ and to have a look at your signal levels, you should see one marked `Signal' go there and post the info on that page (power levels down and up stream and Signal to noise ratio for downstream). Someone will probably tell you if there's a problem with the figures.