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| Thread ID: 63631 | 2005-11-17 03:31:00 | Adsl download speed | JJJJJ (528) | PC World Chat |
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| 404984 | 2005-11-17 03:31:00 | I am supposed to have switched over to the 2Mbps plan. What speed should I be downloading at. I am getting around 100 Kbs On the 256 plan I was downloading at about 23 Kbs Does this sound right? |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 404985 | 2005-11-17 03:49:00 | It'll depend on how far away you are from the exchange but max download speed for 256k is 32KB/s and for 2Mb is 256KB/s. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 404986 | 2005-11-17 03:50:00 | try this site for a speed test here (www.broadbandreports.com) | plod (107) | ||
| 404987 | 2005-11-17 04:48:00 | I'm on 2mbits with Ihug, and download at around 245KByte/s. Try downloading at a non-busy time, and see what speed you get (eg early in the morning). |
somebody (208) | ||
| 404988 | 2005-11-17 07:37:00 | Also D/L speed depends what the servers have that you D/L from. If say for example a server still use's a 56K modem speed which is highly unlikely you would D/L at a 56K modem speed. Get the picture. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 404989 | 2005-11-17 08:56:00 | Also D/L speed depends what the servers have that you D/L from. If say for example a server still use's a 56K modem speed which is highly unlikely you would D/L at a 56K modem speed. Get the picture. Trevor :)Excisely! Whilst you have a 2M pipe from you to your ISP, it doesn't mean every server you request from can satisfy that pipe. A lot of servers in the states are only on 1M connections. This is especially true for users of p2p apps. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 404990 | 2005-11-17 17:14:00 | I am registering 1810 on IHugs meter. And between 1500 and 1700 on several overseas sites. But when downloading I am showing about 100. Is this the best I can expect? |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 404991 | 2005-11-17 19:39:00 | No, sometimes you will get more sometimes you will get less for the reasons listed in the above posts. | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 404992 | 2005-11-17 20:11:00 | The DL speed on the 2M plan varies...Sometime I may get 320kpbs other times very low....try Speedtest NZ (http://www.speedtest.co.nz/) |
Mr Wetzyl (362) | ||
| 404993 | 2005-11-17 22:11:00 | Speed test sites I use: . jetstreamgames . co . nz/speed/" target="_blank">www . jetstreamgames . co . nz & . co . nz/speedtest/" target="_blank">nzdsl . co . nz By the way Iam on the 2M plan with Xtra & . co . nz/speedtest/" target="_blank">nzdsl . co . nz gives me: for the 500 K: Your line speed is approximately 1860 . 5 Kbps or 228 K bytes/sec ( Where kb = kilobits and kB = kiloBytes ) Results: Below is the data used to calculate your download speed: * Download time: 2 . 193 seconds * Size of file: 500 Kilobytes * Estimated line speed: 1860 . 5 (kilobits/second) * Estimated line speed: 228 (kilobytes/second) Hope this helps :) |
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