Longdog Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 Just been told I'll get a whopping 1 meg through virgin and BT linein Firth Be a bit of a change from the 10 meg we get down here on cable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medziotojas Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 http://www.speedtest.net/result/623110979.png http://www.pingtest.net/result/3386884.png Best it's been out this way, as yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 I'm surprised mine is so crap, I thought Tiscali had been doing better lately....seems I'm just getting used to crap speeds, not good. Hey ho, a timely reminder to get the finger out and get changed over to someone better. http://www.speedtest.net/result/623677475.png http://www.pingtest.net/result/3437536.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordanKZ Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 http://www.pingtest.net/result/3305359.png http://www.speedtest.net/result/622165881.png Yay O2. My o2 line has been as bad recently. How on Earth they've managed to go from amazing to utter tosh within 12 months is astounding. Nice job o2... I really need to change ISP, but it's nearly impossible to find one that isn't completely terrible or insane expensive. This morning at 8am I was getting 12kb/s on a download from a very quick server. Last night, I was getting 190ms+ ping to a UK server. I mean seriously, what the hell is this? :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khitajrah Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Saturday afternoon and I can't even view BBC news clips. http://www.speedtest.net/result/636125295.png http://www.pingtest.net/result/4572842.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giant Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 http://www.pingtest.net/result/4573943.pnghttp://www.speedtest.net/result/636141026.png About 1.5 miles from Weisdale exchange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted November 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 I really need to change ISP, but it's nearly impossible to find one that isn't completely terrible or insane expensive. This morning at 8am I was getting 12kb/s on a download from a very quick server. Last night, I was getting 190ms+ ping to a UK server. I mean seriously, what the hell is this? :-/ Changing ISP will not make any difference. There is no unbundling in Shetland. Every and any ISP you choose is selling you a rebadged BT product. There might be slight differences due to traffic shaping but apart from that changing ISP is unlikely to increase your speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siffy Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 I have to disagree with you there Marvin, changing isp greatly increased our download speeds, and we now get pings of 50 - 70 even on German Servers. with PIPEX we were lucky to have pings of 150 at this time of night, but they were generally 200 + We changed from PIPEX to PLUSNET, best move we made. I'm also about 1.5 miles from Weisdale exchange, and at tim eof these tests there are three other pc's online in my house.http://www.pingtest.net/result/4602046.pnghttp://www.speedtest.net/result/636479419.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted November 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 I'll get the full chapter and verse from Ian at Shetland Broadband on Monday and report back... but, basically.... if you buy a package from Plusnet, Tiscali etc they have to buy a package from BT to connect you. There is no local loop unbundling in Shetland. No ISP has any equipment in any of the exchanges. The only variance will come from possible traffic shaping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted November 29, 2009 Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 Changed now from Orange, who added 50%to monthly charge and dropped conns to 3 Mgb to this with Virgin Cable http://www.speedtest.net/result/637339832.png http://www.pingtest.net/result/4679367.png There needs to be a serious campain for a faster internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordanKZ Posted November 30, 2009 Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 I really need to change ISP, but it's nearly impossible to find one that isn't completely terrible or insane expensive. This morning at 8am I was getting 12kb/s on a download from a very quick server. Last night, I was getting 190ms+ ping to a UK server. I mean seriously, what the hell is this? :-/ Changing ISP will not make any difference. There is no unbundling in Shetland. Every and any ISP you choose is selling you a rebadged BT product. There might be slight differences due to traffic shaping but apart from that changing ISP is unlikely to increase your speeds. I know there's no unbundling in Shetland. o2 are shaping the crap out of connections at most times of the day, that's why I need to change ISP. It's become nothing but obvious that if I try to download something "normally" ie using the built in downloader within a web browser, i'd barely get over 30KB/s. When using a download manager, such as DownloadThemAll! my speed shoots up to 90+KB/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khitajrah Posted November 30, 2009 Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 ^ What does 'shaping' mean? I have the same problem with downloads - even in the middle of the day an hour long iPlayer program will now take an hour to download, however, if my partner downloads it on some other download thingy (I don't know what it is) he can have it in a matter of minutes. Why is this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted November 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 ^ What does 'shaping' mean? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping Basically, some ISPs will give certain types of traffic priority over others. They may effectively curtail certain uses such as streaming video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khitajrah Posted November 30, 2009 Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 Thanks Marvin. Looks like traffic priority must be given to every other house with an internet connection over mine.... this connection is getting worse and it keeps dropping. We're on the same exchange Marvin, what's yours like? http://www.speedtest.net/result/637840536.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted November 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 We're on the same exchange Marvin, what's yours like? It varies, but speedtest (which I don't 100% trust) says about 5.5Mbps. The BT checker says about 4Mbps. Those results you are getting are really bad. The speed is shocking but even worse, the ping times... almost unusable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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