How fast is your broadband?

[Edwin]

Just replaced our main home router with an Asus RT-N66U and I'm now finally seeing > 100Mbps speed out of our Virgin Media broadband package (we used to top out at 50-55Mbps on the old router).

A quick test on...
http://www.broadband.co.uk/broadband-speed-test/

... gives the following:
Download speed : 118.11Mbps
Upload speed : 10.46Mbps

How does your provider compare?

 

[Systreg]

We're on up to 8mb, the fastest I've ever seen it is about 5.0 - 6.0, currently it's showing:

Download speed : 3.65Mbps
Upload speed : 0.4Mbps

That's plenty fast enough for me on this laptop whilst my boy is playing online games on his laptop.

 

[philiporchard]

18 mbps with a basic virgin package.

 

[tifosi]

11Mb on eclipse 2k from exchange.

Thought about Virgin - keep getting all the bumf through the post with offers every few months. Advertised 120Mb for area. Only thing I'd be bothered about is reaching servers. With the static IP I have now I can harden servers to a single IP for things like ftp & ssh. Not sure what kind of dynamic ip range I'd get with Virgin.

 

[Nova]

32mb with BT infinity. Prior to that it was less then 1mb with AOL. It's like night and day!

 

[scottsmith]

Download speed : 74.3Mbps
Upload speed : 18.01Mbps

Normal BT home fiber.

 

[Edwin]

Download speed : 74.3Mbps
Upload speed : 18.01Mbps

Normal BT home fiber.

That's very impressive upload speed. I wish Virgin Media would be a bit more symmetric in their offering, like that! When you're backing up hundreds of GB to secure remote filespace it seems to take an age even at 10Mbps...

 

[monaghan]

Different speedtests provide different results though!

I'm getting mid 70's download and high teens upload from my fibre DSL, but then again the cabinet is just over a minute's walk from my house

 

[martin-s]

What was your previous router Edwin?

 

[boxerdog]

BT infinity

36.96 download
8.25 upload

 

[monaghan]

For those on infinity, can't they "flip the switch" in the exchange to jump you from the 40M to 80M setting? I get mine from a reseller rather than BT and my upgrade was done over night at no cost - might be worth the ask!

 

[Edwin]

What was your previous router Edwin?

Netgear WNDR3300

 

[julian]

Download 16 mb/s

Upload 0.801 mb/s

Is that pretty shocking..?

 

[Edwin]

Download 16 mb/s

Upload 0.801 mb/s

Is that pretty shocking..?

Depends what you're paying for and what you should theoretically be getting.

 

[AssetDomains]

Download speed : 92.54Mbps
Upload speed : 11.62Mbps

I'm on the top package with VM. It should be 100Mbps but for the first time ever with them don't always get what's advertised

 

[mbignell]

Download speed : 0.78Mbps
Upload speed : 0.03Mbps
:lol:

 

[golddiggerguy]

Office in Hull away from our "Karoo" using over the air broadband no phone line needed with Quickline.

It changes day to day from that below up to 10Mb/s and sometimes 15Mb/s up and down

Then
Download speed : 8.24Mbps
Upload speed : 7.62Mbps
using the Speed test you posted Edwin

 

[wonder_lander]

I'm on standard LLU ADSL and here's my results:

Download speed : 5.39Mbps
Upload speed : 0.96Mbps

I'm currently paying £0 per month though that will expire shortly when the o2 migration to Sky happens.

We should be fibre enabled in the next quarter so will move to that.

 

[spiderspider]

8.49 Mbps down.
0.26 Mbps up.

But, I live in a tiny village, 9 miles to the nearest town of any size. We're lucky to have Broadband, and even with all the campaigning that is going on, we may get fibre some time before the sun burns out.

 

[Edwin]

For anyone interested in reading some technical posts, this recent thread on CableForum.co.uk explains why cable (i.e. virgin media and almost nobody else in the UK) suffers on the upload. http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12/33695568-can-someone-explain-why-cable-suffers.html

An interesting read, thanks. However, I'm happy enough with what we've got. 95% of our usage is downloading so the extra speed is great there - the backup runs at night and doesn't really affect anything.