Soldato
Time to look into why its slow, how far from the exchange are they etc...
Also what are the line stats etc...
Also what are the line stats etc...
Is this even broadband?
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That is without a doubt broadband, although relatively slow compared to the offerings on the market these days.
You should have tried being an internet user back in the days of 56 k modems. You would have got connection results of 0.040 mb if you were lucky!
You should have tried being an internet user back in the days of 56 k modems. You would have got connection results of 0.040 mb if you were lucky!
Soldato
No. It's 512 Kb/s.no its 512kpbs
Associate
At least your upload is similar to your download!![TW]Fox;16691423 said:
I win.
Soldato
ok i got the b and p worng way round on my post but..
512 kbps = kilobits per second
512 kb/s = kilobytes per second
the way they write it on that results page mb/s is actually incorrect
EDIT: also heres a list of each countrys 'average' speed http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/ at least your doing a little better than Zimbabwe
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Man of Honour
I can't do the maths - what do the figures in the OP relate to if it shows up as kbps?
A young mate of mine is really useless with computers and one day he complained his internet was slow so could I look at his machine.
I went round his house, ran Broadband Speed Checker and it came up as 154kbps where in my house it came up as 9,920kbps.
I ran a laptop in his house and it was slow, bought his PC to my house where it was normal therefore I deducted something was wrong with either his modem or provider.
Every week he would ring me to tell me it was super slow and I kept telling him to ring his provider.
5 months later
I ended up going round his house and ringing up the provider who then sent a new modem.
How could anybody put up with those speeds for 5 months?
A young mate of mine is really useless with computers and one day he complained his internet was slow so could I look at his machine.
I went round his house, ran Broadband Speed Checker and it came up as 154kbps where in my house it came up as 9,920kbps.
I ran a laptop in his house and it was slow, bought his PC to my house where it was normal therefore I deducted something was wrong with either his modem or provider.
Every week he would ring me to tell me it was super slow and I kept telling him to ring his provider.
5 months later
I ended up going round his house and ringing up the provider who then sent a new modem.How could anybody put up with those speeds for 5 months?
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You can't really vouch for the credibility of the results of a single speedtest. You should do at least 3 or 4 at different times of the day and then work out the average. 
Soldato
lol. hardly 'pathetic' That's pretty much a half-meg connection, plenty respectable. What speed of connection is she paying for?
Are you sure you're limited to just BT?
Even if there's no cable or LLU services at your area/exchange, you should be able to get a provider using BTW service (or whatever it's called).
Soldato
all these people with sub 0.5mb speeds be better served by mobile BB?
Soldato
Man of Honour
Broadband is at the end of the day just a marketing term, it has no technical meaning at all. Typically anything above ISDN speeds would be classed broadband by the marketing folk (and all below narrowband obviously enough) but it's just marketing speak, it was once used as a interchangeable term with xDSL but that's long since gone and the variety of EUA networks means it's purely marketing these days...
Soldato
Tried, once you actually try and order they say they can't do it. AOL used to supply but they don't anymore. Small exchange (sub 500 subscribers) is our problem!
Soldato
here's BT 5 miles from exchange and only ISP we can have...
and that's for upto 8 meg...
That's not bad for 5 miles tbh, I bet that isnt your line length either.