Anyone still on 56k?

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Nutty wrote:
Bit odd, I've had well over 7meg coming down with bit-torrenting before.
My connection seems to have slowed alot in the past week or so tho. Not sure why.. Maybe the shitness of pipex is finally seeping into Nildram :(
5ish is pretty good for 10:00 on a saturday night. Also don't forget that BT is P2P, alot of servers, and ISPs limit any one connection to less than your max. Thats why P2P is brilliant, trouble is it's caught out the ISPs as it's generated loads of unmanageable (and more importantly to their business model, uncacheable) traffic.
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Yeah I guess so. More specically it seems to be website latency thats slow at the mo, not throughput. Although my ping in the test is good, and I can still get sub 20ms pings in games. I reckon it might be their DNS's.
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Nutty wrote:Yeah I guess so. More specically it seems to be website latency thats slow at the mo, not throughput. Although my ping in the test is good, and I can still get sub 20ms pings in games. I reckon it might be their DNS's.
DNS might make finding sites a little slower or unreliable but shouldn't affect DL speeds or ping once a site's been found. I recon it's just natural conention.
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Decided to try out of Denver instead of Salt Lake City and it made quite the difference even though they are about the same distance from me.

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It's varied when I tried it in the past on this... on average I get about 8Mb/s down and 2Mb/s up.
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Yeah BT.... well I Am moving in a couple of months... so...

Saying that I get 8meg downloads early in the morning, which is nice.
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Yep, I'm still on 56K

(at least until I move house, and then I intend to get broadband at my new home next year.) :D
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Luckily, it's absurdly cheap and they don't seem to notice that it's saturated half the time.
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WIFI, if that makes any difference at all?

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The adverts say up to 24 meg. I guess I would be faster with better cables maybe instead of old bits of string, but this is plenty fast enough for now.
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Despite my router saying

DownStream Connection Speed 7616 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 832 kbps

I guess nildram's congestion accounts for the differences.
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From PC on home wifi:

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From laptop on same network:

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