how can you tell download speeds, apparently telewest have upgraded me and i cant tell the difference

 

Try this one, it is quality

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/

 

What have they upgraded you from/to?

You might have reached the limit of your exchange.

I am on 8-Meg, but our exchange can 'alledgedly' only support 5.5-meg.

In actual fact, I rarely see over 4-meg according to the usual speedtest sites.

 

1859 kps??? Is that any good

 

Just under half a meg, BT need to pull their finger out and upgrade my exchange

 

3089 for me,whats that mean?

 

What speed are you ment to be on gus? and what down load speeds are you getting?

 

i was on 2 meg just done it and now getting 3989



god knows what 8 meg is like then as this seems very quick

 

tiff is there one for dial up m8

 

I wouldnt go with what these speed tests churn out. Countless times I've used the one above and it never has given me a true reading of what my connection is I just need to look at my newsleecher client while downloading to get a true reading

This site here http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ has an option to test dial up speeds

 

run back to back....

Last Result:
Download Speed: 1837 kbps (229.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 241 kbps (30.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

1.2 megabits per second

Communications 1.2 megabits per second
Storage 144.2 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 7.1 seconds

so take your pick which it is

 

I found that most of these speed tests seem to be bollocks to be honest.

The only way to test your connection is to download a large file off a known fast server and see how quickly and what kbps it downloads at.

 

daz what do you think the tests do lol you dont know who is a fast server and more importantly you dont know the traffic of that server when youre downloading so theres a lot of guesswork. still guesswork but better imo....... find a HEAVILY seeded torrent and look what that comes down at, this way theres more chance your running at full incoming and more chance that the server end host isnt being capped as theres concurrently thousands of them.

azureus maxes at about 250 on mine which is same as these tests usually give, and theoretically about the max poss on a 2mb adsl line = 256