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Dr Pirate
18-05-2005, 08:50 AM
I Think I recieved my AOL upgrade to 1meg last night, as when I logged on this morning the format had changed slightly, after looking around aol.co.uk I found that I was now on the 1Mbps package that they said they would be upgrading me to.

I was just wondering if there was any way of me testing out the new abilitys of 1meg Broadband?
Mist
18-05-2005, 09:01 AM
You could download a big porn movie.
Dr Pirate
18-05-2005, 09:13 AM
You could download a big porn movie.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY ahead of you ;o
BornSlippy
18-05-2005, 03:26 PM
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp

Do that and it should show your results as being the speed of 1mb or faster if your lucky and have a good connection.

Im on 2mb NTL but I got a line speed of 2.4mb :D
ShyBoy
18-05-2005, 04:23 PM
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp

Do that and it should show your results as being the speed of 1mb or faster if your lucky and have a good connection.

Im on 2mb NTL but I got a line speed of 2.4mb :D

I think I get downloads of 200kb - 230kb/s or something (* 8 = 1.6mb - 1.84mb/s). But that's fast enough for me. It's supposed to be 2mb but you know... I downloaded 300Mbytes of a torrent yesterday in about an hour. Was so cool :D
Teh_Gerbil
18-05-2005, 08:16 PM
Torrent some DVD's and Big arse games. Like Act of War.

Or engage in some serious heavy gaming... meheheh... find a low ping server and go for it.
BornSlippy
18-05-2005, 08:31 PM
Torrents are so slow. Get on IRC and find some decent servers, I downloaded a 1.5gb dvd version of Amityville Horror in 90 mins as I was downloading at 240kbps :shocking:
Dr Pirate
18-05-2005, 11:35 PM
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp

Do that and it should show your results as being the speed of 1mb or faster if your lucky and have a good connection.

Im on 2mb NTL but I got a line speed of 2.4mb :D
That says I'm running at 512kbs but on Limewire I'm downloading at up to 60kbps as apposed to the max of 25kbps I was getting before.
jake0
19-05-2005, 01:15 AM
That says I'm running at 512kbs but on Limewire I'm downloading at up to 60kbps as apposed to the max of 25kbps I was getting before.

60kb/s is the average for a 512kbp/s connection.

the average for a 1meg connection is normally 120-125kb/s
ShyBoy
19-05-2005, 08:17 AM
If you divide your advertised connection by 8 that should be your real download speed... probably a bit less than that actually but as a rough guide it's not bad.
edn1
19-05-2005, 10:51 PM
I went to that link supplied and because im clueless, can someone tell me if this is.. well ok, for a 1mb service ..

Downstream 709 Kbps (88.6 KB/sec) 765 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 121 Kbps (15.1 KB/sec) 130 Kbps (inc. overheads)

Was my results.

And can somebody clarify to me, what exactly it means by " downstream " and " upstream " .. i have a fairly certain idea i just want to be sure.
Nash
19-05-2005, 11:08 PM
And can somebody clarify to me, what exactly it means by " downstream " and " upstream " .. i have a fairly certain idea i just want to be sure.

Downstream = Download Speed

Upstream = Upload Speed

Simple.
kleefarr
16-07-2005, 06:16 PM
This is quite a good site for testing various speeds.... Numion. (www.numion.com)
YouCrazyDiamond
16-07-2005, 11:55 PM
Torrents are so slow.

Bollocks.

Torrents easily max out your bandwidth if there are plenty of seeders.
ShyBoy
17-07-2005, 09:57 AM
This is quite a good site for testing various speeds.... Numion. (www.numion.com)

Just did that and got like 360kb/s download, which means I'm getting about 2.8Mbps! :D
Makoto
17-07-2005, 11:49 AM
I think I get downloads of 200kb - 230kb/s or something (* 8 = 1.6mb - 1.84mb/s). But that's fast enough for me. It's supposed to be 2mb but you know... I downloaded 300Mbytes of a torrent yesterday in about an hour. Was so cool :D

I get about those speeds on my 2MB connection :D.

1gig file downloads in about an hour and a bit if I'm using the full 230k.
Nash
17-07-2005, 04:49 PM
Sounds about right, My connection maxes out at 240kb/sec on 2mb
kleefarr
18-07-2005, 09:58 AM
I get about those speeds on my 2MB connection :D.

1gig file downloads in about an hour and a bit if I'm using the full 230k.

I get 240Kb on a 2MB. I'm not far from the exchange, which helps apparently. :)
kleefarr
18-07-2005, 10:05 AM
Just did that and got like 360kb/s download, which means I'm getting about 2.8Mbps! :D

What connection speed are you on?

I run the test every week on 1 minute, 5 frames, UK. It keeps a record of each test you do so you can compare.