broadband speeds

[arrymong]

could one of you kind ABers out there explain the following scenario:
I pay for 8 meg broadband. BT tell me that my line gives me speeds of up to 8 meg. But every speedchecker i tried (five in all) says that my broadband speed is 0.8 meg. When i complained to Bt i was told that O.8 is a really good speed and that no computer could ever get more than 1 meg. Is this true or was that nice man in Mumbai just trying to bamboozle me?

Thanks in advance

[craft1948]

I pay for up to 8M with BT and usually get 7.6M............

[ChuckFickens]

Depends what unit they are talking in.

8Mb/s (Mega BITS) is 0.8MB/s (Mega BYTES)

So if the speed check you use is telling you in MB/s then you are getting your 8Mb/s.

(Load of rubbish that no computer can get more than 1MB/s, if you paid for something like the Virgin 50Mb/s you'd get 5MB/s)

[boxtops]

You'll find that the 8MB speed quoted in all braodband providers is the download speed from the provider to you. Your speedchecker rate is the upload speed (ie from your computer), so the 8MB speed is from BT, and your upload speed of 0.8MB is good for a Home PC.

[Nibble]

Just check through here http://www.uswitch.co...8a21KwCFQUhtAodxjWkrA

Good answers though people!

[AlBags]

Yes .. You need to be precise with your measurement terms.
Or none will know what you have.

[rojash]

"You'll find that the 8MB speed quoted in all braodband providers is the download speed from the provider to you. Your speedchecker rate is the upload speed (ie from your computer), "

Why do people post answers when they have no idea what they are talking about?

[AlBags]

Also .. if you are on BT copper, there are variations everywhere.
The only sure way is to carry out a measurement of data transfer.
This is the one I use ... Download speed test ..
Try both but they will probably be the same.
http://www.giganews.com/performance.html

Be interesting to get a few feedbacks on what people here are getting using their tool.

[Aquariel]

I'm on an 8 Mbit connection, and I've just done mine on www.speedtest.net - it gives me 6.42 Mbps download, 0.63 Mbps upload.

Try it on there and see what yours is compared to mine, then we'll know exactly how good or bad it is.

Unfortunately, you pay for "up to" 8 Mbps, so you could get any speed below that figure. That is one of the advertising cons of recent times.

[arrymong]

hi everyone, just tried Speedtest again (it was one that i tried yesterday) and my download speed is up to 6.09 Bits per second and upload is 0.36.
this is a lot better.
thanks for all your answers
maybe Bt should consider employing you lot!!!

[squarebear]

This is the sting. "Up to 8Mb" includes 0.8Mb.

It's the same as these hair dyes which cover "up to 100% grey". That includes doing just one hair!