dreamin

im with aol broadband,

ive done a speed test on my connection and dont think its all that clever, heres a screen shot,


can anyone shed some light on it and give me tips on how to speed it up ,

thanks, Scott

Alex_86

iTrader: (2)

ruffly your down speed is 1 mb and your up speed is 0.22mb

djmillsy

i think you better read your emails

djmillsy

i see you aol im with them and they adjust the speed of broadband to suit themselves there cunts what package are you on

Stephen_B

Yeah same. Apparently Im on 2 meg aol broadband yet ive never noticed the difference from 512meg

djmillsy

yeah i only get 513 the now cause im in teh middle of nowhere but when i was on paltinum i got 7 mb al the time if your platinum you get priorty thats just the way they work there robbing cunts

BM08

what speed are you meant to be on scott? as said thats 1mb as im on 1mb bb and thats exactly the same scores i get on that site and any others.
What makes you question this because my net is fast enough for me, just when i download HUGE files i find i want to go faster otherwise its great

Turbocabbie

As stated AOL, Tiscalli and other bandwidth throttle specific ports and services and reduce performance at certain times of the day to cover network demands... its common practice.

Ive no idea where people get the idea that they are on a specific 'speed' broadband as nobody including AOL actually state a specific speed as performance drops with DSL the further away from the exchange you are... its the possibility which is quoted often with the words 'Up to'

In reality other than optimising the settings of your Operating System or using a better OS there is very little you can do to improve greatly

Its not uncommon for the faster packages to be actually slower in reality than cheaper packages because the 'throttling' is done on a percentage base...

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle2240380.ece

In this situation - you do not get what you pay for

djmillsy

totally spot on mate i was on the top package but when i moved house i was moving that far away form the exchange that half a meg is all i would get so i went dont to the lowest package and its seems faster just when i download its a bit slow but i do most of mine thru the night anyway

Alex_86

iTrader: (2)

mine internet connection is great
and yes, i complain if i see the speed drop under the speed i paying for!

and no it dont stands "up to" and yes they reduce the speed from 3-7pm but just the big packages that is being sent


but i would be complaining

dreamin

thanks peeps

GTi_iTG
im on aol silver and read that its 2mb broadband,

main reason is im on my laptop since my desktop died and i dunno if its totally fkd or wot but its runnin real slow , i cant even watch vid clips on youtube or anything as its all jumpy , gettin pissed off with it now, might just go buy a new tower as ive got a keyboard etc,

my hard drive failed on my old one, wots involved in putting a new one in?

BM08

oh right well yeah that defo isnt 2mb

djmillsy

aol states that silver is up to 2 mb

Turbocabbie

Mines really poor tonight, feel like crying - might have to use the other connection if it gets any slower

BM08

yes i can see the problem here, web pages taking ages to load up etc

Turbocabbie

can't complain though its as its freebee due to my job but it is usually a lot faster than what it is showing today




Thats a bit better download, but not much I was uploading at the time so I expected upstream to be a little down