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Thread ID: 75469 2006-12-30 06:13:00 Internet speed weirdness - orcon users help? Morgenmuffel (187) Press F1
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511008 2006-12-30 06:13:00 Hi all

Over the last few days my wife has been grumbling about the speed of the net, as she thinks it seems slower than usual, I tested and found something different

we are on orcons advanced 40 plan
basically
256kbps down (thats kilobits not kilobytes!!)
128kbps up


I have used the consumer speed test (www.consumerspeedtest.org.nz) and the xtra speedtest (www.jetstreamgames.co.nz) and my speed is coming out as approx 10 x what it should be

Which is great but I have not seen any announcements about this on orcon and i am not sure it is correct

Also I have checked the speed tests in 3 different browsers and done hard refreshes on the pages to prevent caching etc and for both the above tests i get

3326 Kbps on consumer and
2491.6 Kbps on xtra

these values were tested on the 3 browsers and all browsers values came out about the same for each test

So I basically have 2 questions


shouldn't those 2 values be similar as in much closer in value, could someone else test and let me know if there is a similar variation for them between the 2 speed tests
has orcon given it's customers a speed increase?


Cheers
Morgenmuffel (187)
511009 2006-12-30 08:52:00 I am also on Advanced 40. and i recently downloaded a 670mb Linux Distro in about 2 hours and blew my cap. :( Cost me an extra $10. I dont know if I should complain or not. They might slow me down again. :rolleyes:

Ian
i-gordon (962)
511010 2006-12-30 09:01:00 I just did the consumer speed test just now 9.50pm 30/12/06. Download Speed 2414kbps Upload 114 kbps.

Something is happening. :D
Ian
i-gordon (962)
511011 2006-12-30 22:08:00 Cool,

It just seems odd there has been no announcement, not that i am going to complain :thumbs:
Morgenmuffel (187)
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