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kz

 posted on 15th Mar 09 at 12:07

Mainly talking about torrents mate. My connection is shit and disconnects every half hour or so... I've registered on orangeproblems.co.uk though as phoning Orange got me no where! But on the plus side at least I know I'm on 8Mb now :P


John

 posted on 14th Mar 09 at 17:51

Try downloading netbeans from the sun website, I was getting 700k from them on my o2 connection so must be a fast server.

At the same time I was trying to get stuff from microsoft to test speeds though and they were slow.

Hit and miss.


Aaron

 posted on 14th Mar 09 at 17:40

Downloading from P2P (i guess you mean something like Limewire?) means the person you're downloading from must have a good internet connection (upload speed to be exact)....more often then not....they dont.


kz

 posted on 14th Mar 09 at 17:28

Bloody hell that was quick, maxed out @ 810Kb/s, averaged @ 797Kb/s.

Well there's a bit of good news I guess, guess just P2P sucks!


Aaron

 posted on 14th Mar 09 at 15:33

quote:
Originally posted by kz
Don't you have to pay for iTunes? Speedtest.net is where I done my test... just done another and got 6.7Mb :)


No, you pay for the music.....but not the actual software. you dont even need to install the application that you download...its just a good test to see what speed you get when you download the setup file of it to your computer.

Do it, i'm interested to see what you get considering what you wrote in your first post.


kz

 posted on 14th Mar 09 at 13:56

Don't you have to pay for iTunes? Speedtest.net is where I done my test... just done another and got 6.7Mb :)


Aaron

 posted on 14th Mar 09 at 12:53

go to apple.com and download the iTunes setup file. Apart from using www.speedtest.net...i see this as the only other reliable way of checking your "true" download speed.

Apple.com usually offers great download speeds which will totally saturate your entire bandwidth...thus giving you a true reflection of what speed you can expect to get.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/


kz

 posted on 14th Mar 09 at 12:04

I thought I only had a 2Mb connection...

Just done a speed test and turns out I'm running @ 6.8Mb, which I'm happy with, guess they finally upgraded my area to "up to 8Mb". However, I can still only download at around 2.2Mb, even from servers...

Any idea why?