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| 834639 | 2009-11-29 11:33:00 | You seem to be in the know, can you tell me why some Big-time users are getting a faster service than my $80 40gb capped Pro plan? It looks to me like I am getting the short end of the stick here. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 834640 | 2009-11-29 16:38:00 | What kind of speeds? Their sync speeds? Total throughput? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 834641 | 2009-11-29 19:23:00 | And you're not just running a speed test and going "OMG leik my intawebz r rilly slow!!" As speedtests are influenced by so many factors it's not funny. Real world results (download manager based http/https downloads are the true measure). On my old TCL plan I was able to top out at about 1200kb/s with a download manager, but if I just used IE then the speed would max out at about 400kb/s so it's the multiple connections that makes it all happen. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 834642 | 2009-11-29 19:39:00 | And you're not just running a speed test and going "OMG leik my intawebz r rilly slow!!" As speedtests are influenced by so many factors it's not funny. Real world results (download manager based http/https downloads are the true measure). On my old TCL plan I was able to top out at about 1200kb/s with a download manager, but if I just used IE then the speed would max out at about 400kb/s so it's the multiple connections that makes it all happen. One please do not speak to me like I am a idiot. Two I have been following all these speed threads and reading most of what Chill and others have posted on this topic, I am not an idiot and judging to the best of my ability I am fairly sure that my speeds are lower than the big-time plan over all based on the speed test thread on this forum. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 834643 | 2009-11-29 19:57:00 | One please do not speak to me like I am a idiot. Two I have been following all these speed threads and reading most of what Chill and others have posted on this topic, I am not an idiot and judging to the best of my ability I am fairly sure that my speeds are lower than the big-time plan over all based on the speed test thread on this forum. Sorry wasn't meant to be a dig at you personally, but over here and Geekzone you see so many people complaining about speeds based entirely off speed tests. And with no further details in your post it was an assumption. You would also note that people on big time are complaining left right and center about their speeds. From dialup all the way to 10mbit/s+. It's all a matter of wiring/local traffic/modem. Also you didn't post any details, modem, sync speeds, throughput observed, speed test results, signal strength, devices connected at home, filters used/splitter installed, age of cabling, distance to exchange, distance to cabinet etc, so forgive me if I assumed you were like the multitudes complaining. There are so many factors that set speed. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 834644 | 2009-11-29 20:00:00 | And you're not just running a speed test and going "OMG leik my intawebz r rilly slow!!" As speedtests are influenced by so many factors it's not funny. Real world results (download manager based http/https downloads are the true measure). On my old TCL plan I was able to top out at about 1200kb/s with a download manager, but if I just used IE then the speed would max out at about 400kb/s so it's the multiple connections that makes it all happen. +1 For speedtest.net not being accurate, its single source only. Its effected by load, time of day and and hops being slow. May as well use a random number generator!. Hopefully we will stop seeing PCWorld and alike articles using Speedtest.net to test providers, but im not holding my breath lol. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 834645 | 2009-11-29 20:09:00 | over here and Geekzone you see so many people complaining about speeds based entirely off speed tests. If I got, when downloading, what my speed tests report, then I'd be a lot happier. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 834646 | 2009-11-29 20:13:00 | My Telecom ADSL2 plan (Adventure) has been going like a sack of sh*t for the last week or so; I live barely a kilometre from my local exchange, and was regularly getting 12mbps downloads on Speedtest. Now I'm getting around 3, and more crucially, Youtube won't stream and even Facebook doesn't load pages correctly. :badpc: | nofam (9009) | ||
| 834647 | 2009-11-29 20:50:00 | If I got, when downloading, what my speed tests report, then I'd be a lot happier. Oh weird, I've always found it to be the other way around. Speed test being garbage (it's only one connection) and real world much higher as I never use just the one connection. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 834648 | 2009-11-29 21:54:00 | Speedtest for me is accurate. I get the same results on Speedtest as I would downloading an Ubuntu ISO from 10 mirrors with GetRight. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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