Broadband query

[Gemsbok1000]

I have BT broadband and I was complaining to a friend how slow it was. He emailed me a speedtest which tells me that my PC downloads at 2953 Kb/s and uploads at 376 Kb/s. Trouble is, being pretty computer illiterate, I have no idea if thats any good or not! Can anyone advise?

http://www.speedtest.net/index.php

[mrmr96]

Whether thats goood or not depends on what you think you're paying for.

[Gemsbok1000]

Took me a while to find out - I have BT broadband option 2 which should give a speed of 8mb/s so am I right in thinking the speed I'm actually getting is pants?

[bigdods]

Unless you live close to the exchange you are unlikely to get 8meg although your speed does seem very low. Im having a little debate with my provider right now, I live close to the exchange and for the last 2 years have had 8.1meg as shown by the router connection status page. Over the last 2 weeks I have had the service reset itself every 90 seconds for several days, then switch down to 7.7 meg where it stopped resetting and worked ok for a few days. I've been checking every day and its slower each day, today its down to 3.9meg ! Im going to try another router to see if it picks up but otherwise it seems my only option is to change provider, I'm not paying the £150 they want to come out and check the line.

[Scraggles]

no-one has 8 MB, you only have UPTO 8 mb, think the theoretical max is 7.1 mb in any case.

Used to be with eclipse and got told that 50kbps was upto 8 mb...

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/results.php?t=120...
Date of Speed Test: 2008-02-14 17:27:54
Download Speed: 6336 kbps (792 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 375 kbps (46.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

much better, but then not on BT and am using www.merula.net