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Real-world broadband speeds?

  • 26-01-2012 5:44pm
    #1
    hardwood
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭


    Hi, I've a 10Mbps download & 640Kbps upload package but using speedtest.net and others I rarely get above 7Mbps. When I rang my provider they told me that speed tests weren't an accurate representation of my speeds and that the speed shown on my router page (11,519Kbps) is my actual speed.
    Are they just trying to fob me off or is this right?
    Thanks in advance.


Comments

  • #2
    Jev/N
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Jev/N


    Are you using WiFi?


  • #3
    hardwood
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭hardwood


    Wifi. I've checked using the laptop wired to the router and it's given better speeds but still not the 10Mbps promised.


  • #4
    Jev/N
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Jev/N


    You'll never get "full" speed really, that's the top speed of your connection, so to speak, or what it's limited to.

    I'm not a huge techy but I think anyone here would agree when I say that it's almost impossible to get that speed due to a number of factors -

    Contention (others on the same ISP nearby)
    Time of day (as above)
    Distance (from the exchange)
    Quality (of the line to the exchange, the building cabling and your own components)


  • #5
    dub45
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭dub45


    And no isp promises any particular speed - you will find that your product is "up to".

    What are your line stats?


  • #6
    hardwood
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭hardwood


    Line stats?


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  • #7
    dub45
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭dub45


    hardwood wrote: »
    Line stats?

    http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/linestats.htm


  • #8
    hardwood
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭hardwood


    DSL Connection

    bull__md.gif Link Information

    Uptime:2 days, 3:15:31 spacer.gif
    DSL Type:G.992.5 annex A spacer.gif
    Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]:703 / 11,519 spacer.gif
    Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [GB/GB]:8.50 / 7.92


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