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Chorus Ntl/UPC broadband quality

  • 11-10-2009 2:04pm
    #1
    spq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Hi, just thought I'd make this thread as alot of people have been giving off about chorus ntl capping speeds at peak times using http://speedtest.net as their proof, which made me feel a bit dodge switching to it.

    So I've had it for a week, and speedtest has given pretty much the same results for my 10 meg broadband.

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    However if I download any files with the server giving a high upspeed, such as downloading ubuntu, downloading from steam and downloading from pretty much any other quality site, I always get over 1000 kb/s regardless of the time. Now maybe I'm just lucky, but even still, don't trust speedtest to test your speed.. Hopefully this has cleared some things up for people thinking of switching. The pirate bay isn't blocked either...


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  • #2
    CutzEr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 837 ✭✭✭CutzEr


    Like this thread hasn't been posted a million times already

    We should have our own UPC sub-forum.


  • #3
    Ranicand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭Ranicand


    spq wrote: »
    Hi, just thought I'd make this thread as alot of people have been giving off about chorus ntl capping speeds at peak times using http://speedtest.net as their proof, which made me feel a bit dodge switching to it.

    So I've had it for a week, and speedtest has given pretty much the same results for my 10 meg broadband.

    589025722.png

    However if I download any files with the server giving a high upspeed, such as downloading ubuntu, downloading from steam and downloading from pretty much any other quality site, I always get over 1000 kb/s regardless of the time. Now maybe I'm just lucky, but even still, don't trust speedtest to test your speed.. Hopefully this has cleared some things up for people thinking of switching. The pirate bay isn't blocked either...

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    This is right now.


  • #4
    ajc100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭ajc100


    Glasnevin, now :

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    Have UPC for 3 months and its always that or higher, no complaints from me.


  • #5
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Some of the speed test servers are very poor. If you get low speeds with one try another.


  • #6
    GigaByte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 515 ✭✭✭GigaByte


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    That will do me for now. :)


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  • #7
    Irishpimpdude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,373 ✭✭✭Irishpimpdude


    I was having problems with my connection dropping in the past few weeks, this week it seems perfect no drops at all where as it was dropping once or twice a day.

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    Downloading off heanet i got 1.9mbps


  • #8
    _Sidhe_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭_Sidhe_


    Use www.speedtest.magnet.ie

    It's basially www.speedtest.net but tweaked for Ireland.


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