Comments on: Broadband Speed Test

By: MW

MW — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:48:52 +0000

There is various different broadband speed test sites out there. Sometimes it can be worth double checking your speed test results on more than oner to make sure you are getting an accurate picture.
http://www.broadbandwatchdog.co.uk/speed-test.php

By: myrtlebeachcondos

myrtlebeachcondos — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:20:58 +0000

Your post proved invaluable in our understanding of our own Broadband speed and the lacunae therein.

By: plasticcards

plasticcards — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:22:10 +0000

Its a suspicion I have had about the Broadband speed I am getting. This test has provided a basis for concrete proof.

By: Mswork

Mswork — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:26:07 +0000

When i check my internet speed test from http://www.ip-details.com/ the download speed is 1346kbps and the upload speed is 329 kbps so i want to increase it ? Need some help?

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By: primrosemill

primrosemill — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:37:05 +0000

I have had a similar problem with Broadband speeds and it has been excruciatingly slow at times.

By: kereth

kereth — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:04:38 +0000

I'm on a BT hOME hUB2 and I should be getting about 3mb on an 8mb broadband, I'd kill to see a third of the 8mp. currently I'm on

down 360kbs
up 202kbs,

Which is pathetic.

By: sowmiya

sowmiya — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:26:02 +0000

I am using broad band service & I chk my internet speed from http://www.ip-details.com/ by the time my download speed:1565 upload speed: 273 I want to increase my upload speed & can anybody help me for this?

By: Everton Blair

Everton Blair — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:51:46 +0000

I'm glad you find the tool useful Adi!! My parent's live in Jamaica and their broadband connection speed is really bad

By: Adi

Adi — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:12:16 +0000

First off THANKS for this meter I trust it, when my speed is slow it does not give false results.
I am in Trinidad and Tobago and I suppose to get 2mb with double speed of about 4MB according to my package from my ISP provider TSTT.
At certain times I am not getting my correct speed of 4mb, that is during late evenings in the week and on weekends after lunch slow speed for the rest of the day and I call my ISP provider all the time they check my end and tell me the obvious my end is good then they tell me that they will check there side,guess what problem never resolve ,several times I call them,same service ,it not making any sense calling them and it is a speed problem on their server, I bet.
When my speed is slow the meter I use to use tells me I am getting 4mb but your meter confirm that i was right ,your meter read 1 -1.5MB when I getting slow internet speed,how I know is speed it is because of slow steaming of videos and pages taking a little longer not much ,longer to load and my c is fast and I clean my cache often.
YOUR METER IS BOSS it's accurate THANKS…I think that I will ave to switch.

By: noelrabbetts

noelrabbetts — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:43:04 +0000

When can we in the country only getting at best 700kbs from BT expect more? There are so many ads for higher speed to tempt me to switch but can I expect more speed to do my work from them????

By: liljad

liljad — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:11:36 +0000

ido believe im on talk talk and im paying for 8 mb and jesus i certainly aint getting it
download speed 1352 Kbps
upload speed 529 Kbps
think its time i tell my mother to switch

By: nick

nick — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:37:12 +0000

2112 down
1254 up

O2 stick Berlin

By: PaulG

PaulG — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:51:37 +0000

Three mobile broadband:

792 Kbps download
319 Kbps upload

Ditching BT ADSL was the best choice I’ve made in a long long while. Used to get 200Kbps download and 56Kbps upload on a landline! Awful…

I can take mobile broadband anywhere and its cheaper too!

By: G. Curtis

G. Curtis — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:06:50 +0000

1160kbps download
138kbps upload
On Three (Hutchison 3G U.K.) mobile broadband dongle, with only 2 out of 5 bars reception. Not bad considering max speed is advertised as 2700kbps. Have tested before with 4 out of 5 bars reception and got 3150kbps download and 706kbps upload. Quite chuffed with these results, would certainly recommend Three to anyone.

By: Lee Pickering

Lee Pickering — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:34:18 +0000

5384 download 606 upload on Sky Max broadband – not bad but should be quicker?…

By: James Forrest

James Forrest — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:29:24 +0000

208kbps download – 213 kbps upload after BT engineer checked line and all extensions removed This is not good enough BT!!

By: Stu in Swindon

Stu in Swindon — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:17:30 +0000

152kbps down and 292 kbps up

Post Office broadband

Think I may have a problem…

By: Dick Appleby

Dick Appleby — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:07:06 +0000

1184 Kbps Download
235 Kbps Upload

Thanks Tiscali – I don’t know what for though. Cheaper than postage or keeping pigeons though – I’ll be looking elsewhere.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:23:07 +0000

24 meg! Who from and where do you live? I can only dream of that sort of speed!

By: D Worrall

D Worrall — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:11:46 +0000

getting 24032kbs down and 1392 up,
good if it wasnt supposed to be a 50meg broadband line lol.

By: J Ward

J Ward — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:14:11 +0000

Im paying full price 8MB internet and yet …

Download speed: 232 kbps
Upload speed: 252 kbps

Canceling my internet connection = tomorrow.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:00:51 +0000

Nice tester, I love it…

By: M G Ishwar

M G Ishwar — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:56:25 +0000

I have tested internet connection from online test tool provided in website. I am getting 728 Kbps download speed whereas we have 2 Mbps internet from Tulip.

By: dmackie

dmackie — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:16:32 +0000

Well lets see, ISP says 1000/200. Test shows 944/209 OK! Next week or so I`ll test again. I just orderd an upgrade tooooo 16000/800. I hope get every KB thats paid for????

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By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:23:04 +0000

i have just subscribed to mobile broadband with t-mobiledownloas speed is 32kbps upload speed is 38kbps dial up worked better for me and for £35 a month(with laptop) im very dissaaapointed and its a 2 year contract…am gutted

By: K

Tue, 26 May 2009 14:24:42 +0000

I’m with Virgin and I’ve got an average download speed of 1.8mb on an “Up to 10mb” connection. I’m rather disappointed.

By: qballer

qballer — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:27:55 +0000

Not to brag or anything but I think I found a better test…. The above test gives basic speed information but no real info you quality or capability of your connection. My favorite Broadband Speed Test site is http://www.ispgeeks.com.

Click on Broadband Diagnostics then TCP Quality Test and the rest is simple. They also have a true speed test, voip test and a couple of other things.

You get data back like this (testing my connection)

Speed test statistics
———————
Download speed: 7437424 bps
Upload speed: 1646448 bps
Download quality of service: 97 %
Upload quality of service: 95 %
Download test type: socket
Upload test type: socket
Maximum TCP delay: 76 ms
Average download pause: 3 ms
Minimum round trip time to server: 60 ms
Average round trip time to server: 61 ms
Estimated download bandwidth: 35200000bps
Route concurrency: 4.7328215
Download TCP forced idle: 77 %
Maximum route speed: 8738000bps

Plus it even gives you graphical data such as this (based on the test above).

http://174.34.146.20/myspeed/db/report?id=1986

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:53:56 +0000

should of gone with o2 im getting 17-18mb down and around 1.8mb up!!

By: keith

keith — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:49:53 +0000

Just completed set-up for a new (8Mbps) contract with Virgin after years of indifferent and overpriced service from madasafish.

Very disappointed to see only 3 Mbps download speed, despite being assured by Virgin and BT that I would get 6-7 Mbps. I’m only 400m from the local digital exchange. Not good….kfm

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:01:06 +0000

im on o2 pro and i get just under 18Mb yes 17176 Kbps download constant never less than 15Mb (15000 kbps)
and 1.4 Mb upload (1400 kbps)
I got out of BT and it was the best decision i ever made o2 are great with Mcafee and english call centres 10/10

By: fanta

fanta — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:19:49 +0000

orange:
download 1089kbps
upload 311 kbps

- and i’m paying for 8mb , joke :/

By: Cheap DVDs

Cheap DVDs — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:32:33 +0000

I’m with BT and got 4.8Kbs – not too bad as it used to be slower.

I just got an email from them about an iPlate you can buy that will speed up the connection more: http://www.shop.bt.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=58LT&InMerch=1

By: Chilligan

Chilligan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:27:51 +0000

Geez.
Low marks for Shaw in Vancouver.
744 Kbps download
284 Kbps upload

I’ve run speed tests in the past and the connection performed much, much better than this. I’ll try again later.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:54:36 +0000

this is not really the correct way to check your speed, this test will give differet readings depending on what browser you have open, if you run AVG it always shows no more than around 2 meg,
also it depends on your network card and what server the test is running from, i get a 6800-7500 most of the time, before they changed their picture (and possibly server) it never read above 4000. Please bear this in mind that your ISP will not call this test accurate and will not do anything about your speed if you tell them you are using a Internet speed test. Get an accurate reading by downloading an hourly widget testing it for a week then take the average!

By: cheap

cheap — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:44:39 +0000

I have used this speedtest, and find that although it is much more accurate than some, open source speed testers, it is still nto that accurate.

I think that the speed tester you show above is more accurate as it checks the connection speed to more than one server, is that correct?

By: Rhonda Carnegie

Rhonda Carnegie — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:41:28 +0000

I have Cox Communication subscription in Virginia. It is advertised as 2 but I constantly get the speed way above that. My friend says that speed test service is wrong. I do not know, the real max download speed I’ve ever gotten is around 1000 kByte/sec. That was from Amazon AWS services. I think that speed mostly depends on the other end, on the delivering server.

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By: Dan "The Stroller"

Dan "The Stroller" — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:19:37 +0000

It’s all great, and all major broadband speed test services do a great job in figuring out the download speed. What they have a problem with is an upload speed. I’ve found that the same service can give very different results fo different upload file sizes.

By: Mon

Mon — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:21:11 +0000

My one is advertised as 8 but the speed according to the test is under 4, although I suppose I should try more than once.

By: Jada

Jada — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:28:25 +0000

I have sky broadband the max package and I believe it lives nowhere up 2 the way it was advertised. The speed is always changing. today it is really good compared to normal but it stil giving 3mb whereas in ma location i can obtain up 12mb. normally it is giving me 2mb. had no problems with virgin speed is always at peak levels. will definetly recommend virgin.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:05:39 +0000

They will not accept that as a true reading as your computer could have been updating etc the only thing they will accept is your network usage found in your control panel, this gives you a graph image live of what you are getting download, if this companys server is busy it will show you a false reading, if your with BT try their own speed test it is the only accurate way, honestly ive had engineers here and getting 6 Mb whilst this test is showing 2 Mb.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:58:35 +0000

I really would not moan about that at all, BT average is only around 2500 your lucky to recieve anything above 4 with BT what ever the package, its virgin with a fibre optic cable thats the winner, im on BT somedays its 2 meg somedays its 3, it depends on a number of things, try using the actual BT speed tester the one that can only be used every 3 hours that will give you your correct reading.

By: peter Roddis

peter Roddis — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:49:41 +0000

New modem installed and now working much faster. measured 6512 a few minutes ago. well off 10 but much better than 400. Just wish that they had sorted it out more efficiently instead of me having to make so many phone calls etc. They have however provided a small amount of refund for the poor service so can’t grumble.

By: peter Roddis

peter Roddis — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:39:50 +0000

Hi
I have now been advised after 3 days of telephone calls that the problem is with my cable modem and that they will chenge this when the engineer visits tomorrow. i’ll keep you all informed.

By: tattiebopgle

tattiebopgle — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:32:55 +0000

I have been with Vuirgin Media onn a fibre optic connection for a long time now. My package is up to 10Mb and I consistentl get over 9 Very good