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djnerve
26-08-2006, 01:20
Hi guys,
im onthe 4mb broadband package and phoned up today to see if i changed to the 10mb if i would have to spend a year on it, they said only 30 days. i was thinking of upgrading but will i actually get 10mb? or is it how far away from the exchange i am i have no idea how cable works.

i can max my 4mb at the moment.

ps. if needed im in WF2

Thanks
thelem
26-08-2006, 14:48
You will get 10mb to the Telewest "exchange", however internet conditions may prevent you getting 10mb all the way to the site you're downloading from. Give it a go, and go back in a month if you don't think its worth it.
djnerve
26-08-2006, 18:09
Nice one thanks mate, will give it a bash :p

---------- Post added at 18:09 ---------- Previous post was at 17:21 ----------

Hi just to let you no im now on the 10mb and a test maxed out at 7.4 with a few things running. gonna reset modem n see if it helps!

thanks
RealDiamond
27-08-2006, 10:02
if you mean the test here then you should be able to get over 8mb when i was on telewest the test wasnt very good but use a down loader for files and it pushed way passed the 10Mb speed.
djnerve
27-08-2006, 12:28
cool what did you do to test that?
djnerve
27-08-2006, 12:54
I ran these tests http://fuller.zen.co.uk/test/

and they started at 1300 then soon dropped to hight 700's to 800 :dozey:
SnoopZ
27-08-2006, 12:56
Try http://www.speedtest.net/ from the London server.
djnerve
27-08-2006, 13:03
8238 from their. going to try on my mums pc less stuff running

mum gets 9500 lol guna do a spyware check
Andrewcrawford23
27-08-2006, 16:11
Well according to speedtest my connection is 3mb but if i the speed test from this site http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/speed.php then i get 3.8mb. so you might not have spyware allow doesnt mean i cant get full speed but normally only on newsgroups :)
SnoopZ
27-08-2006, 16:16
You might have web filtering enabled on your software firewall. If i turn that off i get normal results on webpage speed tests. :)
djnerve
27-08-2006, 16:33
i have no firewalls active i do have a router on the network but my mums pc is getting better resuls than mine, also i have run a spyware scan. bit weird il try that other test above

**EDIT**

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:33:28 GMT

1st 512K took 516 ms = 992.2 KB/sec, approx 8176 Kbps, 7.98 Mbps
2nd 512K took 563 ms = 909.4 KB/sec, approx 7493 Kbps, 7.32 Mbps
3rd 512K took 531 ms = 964.2 KB/sec, approx 7945 Kbps, 7.76 Mbps
4th 512K took 453 ms = 1130.2 KB/sec, approx 9313 Kbps, 9.09 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 8232 Kbps, 8.04 Mbps
janipewter
31-08-2006, 13:25
http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/

I got:

Download Speed: 9777 kbps (1222.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 357 kbps (44.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
RealDiamond
01-09-2006, 03:47
cool what did you do to test that?
<<<<<<<i am a mac user i just downloaded files from Apple web sites and version tracker.com or gamespy.com HD movies they maxed out my connection no problem.

nope those speed tests are out buy about 10% also speedtest.net said my speed to America was faster than London if its right i should set up a proxy to the USA.

edit= O the browser does effect the speed result.
skynet777
17-09-2006, 10:24
Hi guys,
im onthe 4mb broadband package and phoned up today to see if i changed to the 10mb if i would have to spend a year on it, they said only 30 days. i was thinking of upgrading but will i actually get 10mb? or is it how far away from the exchange i am i have no idea how cable works.

i can max my 4mb at the moment.

ps. if needed im in WF2

Thanks

The only way i can get my 4mb is if i use DAP.
Graham M
17-09-2006, 10:36
nope those speed tests are out buy about 10% also speedtest.net said my speed to America was faster than London if its right i should set up a proxy to the USA.

Hehe it's probably because more UK people are using the Speedtest than anybody else as they seems to be a strange breed that are obsessed by the speed of their Internet Connection... Did somebody say Penis Extension? :) My 4MBit suits me fine :angel:
skynet777
18-09-2006, 19:51
Hehe it's probably because more UK people are using the Speedtest than anybody else as they seems to be a strange breed that are obsessed by the speed of their Internet Connection... Did somebody say Penis Extension? :) My 4MBit suits me fine :angel:

I think all this 10 mb service is a bit of a con anyway, even if you did max out, a lot of the websites have resticted bandwidth anyway.
SnoopZ
18-09-2006, 19:52
I think all this 10 mb service is a bit of a con anyway, even if you did max out, a lot of the websites have resticted bandwidth anyway.

It's not all about websites. And my 10mbit performs far better on webpages than my sisters 2mbit.
RealDiamond
20-09-2006, 18:34
your upload speed is what makes the difference faster the upload the sooner the web site starts sending data to you
adriano69
03-10-2006, 22:11
sorry m8, just to clarify,

did telewest upgrade you for free to 10mb? or did you pay extra to your current supscription fee?
djnerve
04-10-2006, 00:17
sorry m8, just to clarify,

did telewest upgrade you for free to 10mb? or did you pay extra to your current supscription fee?


Hi mate! upgrade is free but i paid to start from like the 20th the day i wanted it so i paid £12 for that then the £10 from the month after
adriano69
06-10-2006, 12:18
^ was that 12/10 pounds ontop of your current bill of the 4mb?
djnerve
07-10-2006, 16:29
yes
The Jackal
09-10-2006, 00:57
Save yer money and stick with 4meg : 4meg and 10meg have the same upstream so in my opinion 4meg is better as you are capped @4meg you are less likely to saturate your upstream.

Ask yourself these questions :

* Where are you going to be spending this extra download bandwidth ? It can't be p2p as you already have the same amount of upstream and so will not gain too much... Ahhhh could it be a news server or other high availabilty source ?

* If so - it currently takes you ~3 hours to download a DVD but you want it an hour and 15 minutes - sounds cool : but after 24 hours you have downloaded near 18 DVD's and burnt 60Gigs of disk space - ask yourself do you really want to be spending your time sorting data and money on disk storage.

Personally I had 2 dedicated download machines - both high spec (they had to be) so that they could unrar / compress files without effecting download speeds.

Now that I've happily downgraded to 2meg I can do without that kind of grief and thinking how big a disk to buy.

:angel: Peace :angel: