Broadband speed comparison

[Curlyben]

I thought this might be an interesting exercise, should certainly be an eye opener.

Now lets have a look at our broadband speeds.

Firstly post your supplier, service and price per month
Then throw you info into Samknows ( Samknows Broadband - Broadband Availability Checker )and see what BT thinks is the best speed for your line. BT ADSL tab gives you this.

Then run a speed test and post the result. I'd run this a few times and take and average. ( Namesco BroadbandMax ADSL Broadband Bandwidth speedtest | Test your ADSL Broadband connection speed )

So here's mine.

Supplier: Be
Service: Unlimited 24 Mbps@£17.50
BT: 4 Mbps
Actual Speed: 8790 Kbps (approx 8.6 Mbps)
Difference: + 4.6 Mbps


So all in all a good service.

[Mochamoo]

Re: Broadband speed comparison

I am Be unlimited aswell same service

BT Link 4mbps
speed link: 11482kbps

I dont get how to work out if its good or not:o

[Curlyben]

Re: Broadband speed comparison

Well as it's almost 3 times what BT say they'd supply, then I'd say it was excellent.

[Happyolddog]

Re: Broadband speed comparison

Supplier: Virgin
Service: Unlimited 10mbs
Actual Speed: 9868 Kbps (approx 9.9 Mbps)
Difference: nominal.
Cost: £12 Pcm as part of TV and telephone package, includes virgin PC guard.

[borgbaiter]

Re: Broadband speed comparison

hi

Supplier: Talk Talk
Service: claims to be 8mbps
BT: 5 Mbps
Actual Speed: 1700 Kbps download 190kbps upload
Difference: - far too much
Cost: free as part of phone package including calls at around £25 per month

not very reliable often drops connection for no reason speed varies wildly.

[Curlyben]

Re: Broadband speed comparison

BB, that's awful.
I hope you have complain loud and long about this.

[BBB]

Re: Broadband speed comparison

18th December 2008 20:47 Average Speeds:233 Kbps up 2205 Kbps down

Service provider is Tiscali at 512k

Cost is £20 per month but that also includes line rental for the phone and inclusive calls to landline numbers all day and also international calls to 32 countries.

[Tools]

Re: Broadband speed comparison

Supplier: Sky
Service: >6 Meg @ £5 on top of TV,Phone package
BT: 6Mbps
Actual Speed: Download Speed: 5246 kbps (655.8 KB/sec ) Upload Speed: 348 kbps (43.5 KB/sec )
Difference: Negligible

[Oldjools]

Re: Broadband speed comparison





That's from a sync of 19mbit, with BT (Entanet) I was getting 8mbit sync & around 6.5mbit throughput but to be fair that was only ADSL 1 where Be is ADSL 2.

[Oldjools]

Re: Broadband speed comparison

The best way to run this comparison is to do 2 throughput figures, one late at night or early in the morning & then another at around 6pm. Some ISP's don't provide enough bandwidth for the number of customers sharing it (some even restrict it at peak times) & in that case you will see a big drop in throughput around 6pm compared to the off peak figure.