correct me if I am wrong

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266KB/sec is faster than 2Mb connection speed right?

My connection has been realy crazy lately, I have been getting some really good constant speeds apart from yesterday were I had the worse speeds ever.

It was taking 3 minutes to download a 3MB file. Open office was going to take 14hours to download, I have just done it in 8 minutes

 

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Does seem a little high but 1mb is usually around 120kb/s download speed and 2mb 240-250, so not massively out

 

Yup 266KB is faster than what you would expect from a 2 Megabit connection. I would expect around about 200KB per second as a rough rule of thumb. The two separate 10Mb connections we have at work tend to peak at about 1150KB/Sec when we get a good sustained download.

The kbps that an ADSL account syncs at though is often not representative of the speed you will get from the connection. As an example, my downstream speed typically syncs at over 3000, but I can get about 180-200KB / sec at best.

 

I thought 2Mb was about 240KB/s so 266 must be about 2.2

 

according to speedtest.net I am getting a download of 2046kb/s and an upoad of 362kb/s

 

Those things are never accurate

Yea, my old 2mb connection used to say "you are now connected at 2.2mb" or "1.1" on my 1mb connection. This was using an old USB speedtouch modem.

If you're on a router you should see synch speed of something like 2200

 

maybe they are giving me a good pipe because my subscription runs out next month

 

(1mb connection) 1024kb/8 (8 bits in 1 byte) = 128kbps (that is theoretically the max transfer speed before attenuation etc on the line)

Grim

 

Thanks =]

 

so by that I am getting 255 or 2.5

 

check your router connection

that's mine, although i should be getting 8mb down and 1 up

Grim

 

I think I have a good connection as I told AOL I am gonna leave

 

On BT's fastest ADSL connection I am only getting 501Kbs download and 109Kbs upload.
Just really sad that NTL's 20MB service is just around the corner where I live and can't get it.
Every day I pass by those lovely metal square boxes on the ground (CCTV) and to make it worst around the corner there is this restaurant with access to 3 of those and I CANT GET ANY

http://www.speedtest.net/result/345814236.png

 

AOL LoL

Grim

 

Not sure who I should go with, I can't get Be where I am, and I can't do cable.

 

have you been here?