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How fast is your internet connection ?

BT Dial Up
2 (7.4%)
512k Broadband
3 (11.1%)
1 meg Broadband
5 (18.5%)
2 meg Broadband
6 (22.2%)
8 meg Broadband
7 (25.9%)
Faster than all the above
2 (7.4%)
I don't know, it's all greek to me
2 (7.4%)

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Offline moley

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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #20 on: November 27, 2010, 04:56:35 PM »
one other thing that can have a big impact on your apparent broadband speed (especially on some of the speed tests) is your virus checker... some of the more modern ones expect a multi-core super computer to run them on and will really impact download speeds on an older PC or a netbook...
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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #21 on: November 27, 2010, 05:01:05 PM »
And constantly want to update themselves. i'm looking at you, Norton!
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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #22 on: November 27, 2010, 05:23:31 PM »
Quote from: Drone on November 27, 2010, 05:01:05 PM
And constantly want to update themselves. i'm looking at you, Norton!

Norton is by far the worst.. I have an older PC that the kids use - I discovered that it was using around 70% of its CPU just keeping the virus checker up to date (the particular version of Norton was doing updates every 15 minutes and couldn't be disabled).

Expensive Norton gone and replaced with Avast which is free, and much less intrusive.

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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #23 on: November 28, 2010, 12:04:15 AM »

Yep, Avast here too.

Norton, Macbastard and the others aren't allowed anywhere near my equipment.
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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #24 on: November 28, 2010, 12:29:43 AM »
I currently have the virgin extra large package 50 meg broad band, I have heard they are bringing out the 100 meg soon.

I am also thinking of upgrading my laptop and going for one with a solid state HD, which should hopefully make a  difference to it's performance ;)
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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #25 on: May 06, 2013, 07:34:06 AM »
Hi,Geoff Reid
            I got the downloading speed of 3.297Mbps and uploading speed of 0.497Mbps .And i used the site Scan my Speed  to know the speed of the internet  connection.
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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #26 on: May 06, 2013, 10:11:43 AM »
My interweb comes from under the telly.

There is a black box that has 2 blue lights and 2 green lights. One of each colour goes winky winky in an enchanting way. Sometimes I watch them when the Eternal Radiance has arranged our viewing pleasure.

My black box of the Interweb says ScanmySpeed is a bad place.

I'm running at 8.9 download and 2.4 upload this morning. Does this mean my winky box will overflow and will I have to fit a bit of 15mm tubing to get rid of the surplus wossnames?
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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #27 on: May 06, 2013, 10:57:49 AM »
http://www.uswitch.com/broadband/speedtest/

It's getting quicker!

If it spills will it stain?
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Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don’t know what your rights are, or who the person is you’re talking to. Then, on the way out, slam the door.

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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #28 on: May 06, 2013, 11:56:25 AM »
mine's on Veggie Medium and although it's supposed to be 20 Mgb, it has been known to go down to 19.8 at times .....rip off !!
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What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #29 on: May 06, 2013, 07:22:37 PM »
I dream of anything above 5 thingies per second. (I used to dream of other things but age weakens the resolve.)
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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #30 on: May 07, 2013, 12:06:15 AM »
Quote from: Outoftowner on May 06, 2013, 07:22:37 PM
I dream of anything above 5 thingies per second. (I used to dream of other things but age weakens the resolve.)


As you can see, my isp isn't Digital City (UK) Ltd and didn't cost Swindon taxpayers £400,000...

....but it is moderately nippy....

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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #31 on: May 07, 2013, 07:21:48 PM »
I have no clue what my speed is but my internet comes from AVG, which i have not heard before but works good
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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #32 on: May 07, 2013, 09:21:42 PM »
How on earth do you get the bugger running like that, them's silly numbers.
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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #33 on: May 08, 2013, 03:33:11 PM »
Quote from: helen thompson on May 07, 2013, 07:21:48 PM
I have no clue what my speed is but my internet comes from AVG, which i have not heard before but works good


Helen dear

 AVG is an anti virus software and as far as I know NOT an internet provider...but what do I know ?
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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #34 on: May 08, 2013, 05:14:33 PM »
Quote from: Mart on May 07, 2013, 09:21:42 PM
How on earth do you get the bugger running like that, them's silly numbers.

BT phoned me and the guy enquired, (in a voice like Buzz Lightyear), "May I take you to Infinity and beyond, sir?' to which I responded "You may indeed".

3 days later a nice young man from BT arrived, changed our main incoming socket wossname for an optical one and were were duly 'infinitised, and have had those speeds ever since.  The increase in upload speed has been hugely useful but our BT Vision service (TV) is now excellent. 
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What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #35 on: May 08, 2013, 08:46:27 PM »
So as it is optical I take it that you are on a fibre optic network. Do BT own the fibre optic network do you know or do the likes of BT , Virgin share or what? Not that it'll ever affect me. We use a couple of wires from a barbed-wire fence for our phone connection!
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Re: What Is The Speed of your internet connection and who supplies it ?
« Reply #36 on: May 08, 2013, 11:26:23 PM »
Yep, BT installed their own optical network in West Swindon. Not sure if customera of other isp's, (virhin etc), can access the BT infinity network in the same way they currently use BT copper cable phone wires to get their (8 meg?) service in areas where their own isp has not yet cabled.


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