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My broadband Download Speeds?

Cara2

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Posted April 25, 2011 at 6:25PM

I suspect my broadband speed is not exactly speedy so have done two tests with the following results:

  1. Upload .3mb and Download 6.34

  2. Upload .4mb and 'Ping/Latency' (?) 90mb.

Does this make sense and is this as slow as I feel it is?

Am with Orange and have a very old style Router. Would this affect the speed?

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Woolwell

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Posted April 25, 2011 at 10:09PM

There are so many things that can affect download speed. How far are you from your exchange, the quality of your line, the router, your isp, etc. Many of your questions are covered in this thread broadband speed

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carver

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Posted April 26, 2011 at 8:59AM

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If you get the Orange router stats and enter them into the boxes that should give a rough idea of the sort of speeds you should get.

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carver

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Posted April 26, 2011 at 9:00AM

Sorry wrong link link text

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onthelimit1

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Posted April 26, 2011 at 9:03AM

6.34 for many people in rural areas can only be dreamed of! As Woolwell says, depends on many factors. O.3 upload is fairly standard.

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interzone55

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Posted April 26, 2011 at 11:43AM

Check your exchange here and see if any ISPs have their own kit in the exchange (known as LLU). they will be able to offer the best speeds.

For reference I live in a pretty rural area, BT could offer me a shade under 2mb/s download, so I went with Talk Talk, when I checked at the weekend I was enjoying 10.43mb/s download and .88mb/s upload

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Housten

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Posted April 26, 2011 at 2:24PM

By way of interest I saw the broadband speed test and then saw the offer of a 'free scan'. If you click on this you get Uniblue Registery checker - or something like this - which you can install on your machine. When you run this the programme will go through your machine and tell you that you have all sorts of problems which it can fix!! Just one teensy, weensy problem - you have to pay to get this!! so much for a 'free' scan!! Please beware of this.

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Woolwell

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Posted April 26, 2011 at 5:11PM

IMO the Uniblue Registry checker isn't very good (like most registry cleaners). See the helproom for associated problems.

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