Fibre Optic, no difference noticed so far...

[mrblue]

Ive had fibre optic installed today, speeds of up to 40mb Ive went to speedtest.net and Im getting 34.9mb

Ive started to download a movie and only getting 80kb/s and no difference noticed in web browsing.

Dont understand this, I though Id be downloading at like 10 meg per sec.

[irishbluestaffy]

hi there,i dont think its slow on your side of things it could b the person seeding it try downloading another film and c how fast that is,hope this helps

[markybrook]

You might also want to check that your ping is working fine.
Try pingtest.net.

[choozay]

Ive had fibre optic installed today, speeds of up to 40mb Ive went to speedtest.net and Im getting 34.9mb

Ive started to download a movie and only getting 80kb/s and no difference noticed in web browsing.

Dont understand this, I though Id be downloading at like 10 meg per sec.

If you have 40Mbps the person you are downloading will also need to have the same speeds!!

If the person u are downlaoding from have a terrible connection their connection will reflect in your downlad speeds!!

Hope that makes sense

[mrblue]

It makes perfect sense and I was quick to criticise the connection. I was getting 3mb/s this morning through vuze.

Is there anywhere I can download movies and games without depending on someone seeding it to me.

Ive tried rapidshare and its not great. Ive also had a look at usenet, ncbmatrix but it costs to join.

[barrowmanandrew]

do you use newsgroups m8?
they max out your connection......


but the way is displayed is weird.
i have 20meg bb from vermin.
on newsgroups my max download is 2.4mb/s.

[mrblue]

Yea I had a free trial with one of them and was dissapointed with the UI

Might try the paid version of rapidshare....

[barrowmanandrew]

who's you bb provider are u in uk?

[choozay]

Yea I had a free trial with one of them and was dissapointed with the UI

Might try the paid version of rapidshare....

I would advise payin for it.. I would use newsbin!! You can get some amazin speeds


But be aware, cus your usin VM they do alot of traffic shapin and capping!!! Nt sure wat VM fair use policy is but the cap can cripple ur speeds

[barrowmanandrew]

yep, if you download during the day, they can hammer you.

Our traffic management policy

best to download betweeen midnight and 9 am

sometimes i get throttled during the day, other times i dont.....

[mrblue]

Im with bt infinity. FUP is 300gb. Need to be careful. Will give ncb matrix a go, this would would be a newsgroup wouldnt it......

[odiemixed]

if you drive a porsche in rushhour, you have got the same effect

[geethwh]

You might also want to check that your ping is working fine.
Try pingtest.net.

Hi,i would like to share my ping test results
Reply from 74.125.221.83: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.221.83: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.221.83: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.221.83: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=53
Ping statistics for 74.125.221.83: Packets: Sent = 4,
Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 45ms,Maximum = 45ms,Average = 45ms
and check my ping from here whoisxy

[Sepiraph]

There are different factors that affect download speed, but mainly:

1) Path taken by data from server to client
2) network congestion - whether there is any bottleneck in the network data path

A upgraded link at home (last mile in networking speak) to the ISP will improve download speed if congestion (#2) was an issue. However, the download speed will still be constrained by #1.

You can actually use tracerroute in Linux or tracert in Windows to a ip address to identify what the latency (ms) is to reach the target. Unfortunately for a home user, there is basically nothing much one can do to improve on #1)

[DeviousG]

do you use newsgroups m8?
they max out your connection......


but the way is displayed is weird.
i have 20meg bb from vermin.
on newsgroups my max download is 2.4mb/s.

20 megabits = 2.5 megabytes