LOL...

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FiOS (Verizon's trademarked fiber-optic system) with a large (~1MB) TCP receive window gave me a sustained 1.375MB/s (11Mb/s). I hadda hit up three servers and queue up lots of Linux DVD ISOs just to figure out what the limit was.

This was on an advertised "1.5Mb/s" (192KB/s) line. That's why I asked about your TCP receive window size.

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Threaten to stab the regional manager's eyes with a really hot french fry.

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I aint stole no ba**ards bandwidth ...
I just paid £25 a month for 13 MB worth ...
(and I would not touch BT with a 300,000 mile long bargepole. The basta**s are just rip-off merchants dressed in rip-off merchants clothing ...)

When concerned about loss in broadband bandwidth I suppose it's important to have a way of measuring it. I was using pcpitstop.com which consistently gave me figures below 1MB, even below 500kb. I then tried Somebodley's suggest site of adslguide.org.uk and it consistently gave me a rating of just below 2MB.

So which is right? Or is there a better way of testing my bandwidth?

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Argonne National Labs - Your tax dollar at work, and for you (for a change)

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Argonne National Labs - Your tax dollar at work, and for you (for a change)

Thanks for that. I got 3 readings around 1.87MB which matched the adslguide.org.uk values, and indicates that I am not, in fact, losing width to a rustler. Mind you I am totally jealous of all you with 8MB and 13Mb and will be parked outside your houses with my wireless gear later tonight. Can you bring me out an occasional cup of tea? Ta.

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Argonne National Labs - Your tax dollar at work, and for you (for a change)

Thanks for that. I got 3 readings around 1.87MB which matched the adslguide.org.uk values, and indicates that I am not, in fact, losing width to a rustler. Mind you I am totally jealous of all you with 8MB and 13Mb and will be parked outside your houses with my wireless gear later tonight. Can you bring me out an occasional cup of tea? Ta.

Asterix, if you WERE parked outside my house, I would be slighted if you did not tap on the window ... and you could come in and relax ... and use as much bandwidth as you could want.
;))

Argonne National Labs - Your tax dollar at work, and for you (for a change)

Thanks for that. I got 3 readings around 1.87MB which matched the adslguide.org.uk values, and indicates that I am not, in fact, losing width to a rustler. Mind you I am totally jealous of all you with 8MB and 13Mb and will be parked outside your houses with my wireless gear later tonight. Can you bring me out an occasional cup of tea? Ta.

Asterix, if you WERE parked outside my house, I would be slighted if you did not tap on the window ... and you could come in and relax ... and use as much bandwidth as you could want.
;))

Cheers mate. But my 2 mega bits is enough thanx.

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Argonne National Labs - Your tax dollar at work, and for you (for a change)

Thanks for that. I got 3 readings around 1.87MB which matched the adslguide.org.uk values, and indicates that I am not, in fact, losing width to a rustler. Mind you I am totally jealous of all you with 8MB and 13Mb and will be parked outside your houses with my wireless gear later tonight. Can you bring me out an occasional cup of tea? Ta.

Asterix, if you WERE parked outside my house, I would be slighted if you did not tap on the window ... and you could come in and relax ... and use as much bandwidth as you could want.
;))

Cheers mate. But my 2 mega bits is enough thanx.

Sorry, forgot to add the laugh

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It's all about your contention ratio.

http://www.getonlinebroadband.com/faqs/faq02.html

It's not ADSL, it's broadband

I thought ADSL was Broadband?

in the us Cable has marketed itself as broadband while saying that DSL is not.
Yes both are broadband.

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I have a 2MB broadband connection, but I'm lucky if I'm getting 1MB right now. I can't figure it out. Who's stealing my bandwidth?

It's that cute brunette from down the street, that sells you coffee every morning.

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Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes.

Gotta love my (free) 10 mbps.

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Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes.

I have a 2MB broadband connection, but I'm lucky if I'm getting 1MB right now. I can't figure it out. Who's stealing my bandwidth?

It's that cute brunette from down the street, that sells you coffee every morning.

Thanks for the tip off, she gives it to me for free now.

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10 Megs down and 1 Meg up, with a locked down WiFi makes the world go round,
and nobody can access it...the bandwidth is mine, all mine.

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I have a 2MB broadband connection, but I'm lucky if I'm getting 1MB right now. I can't figure it out. Who's stealing my bandwidth?

It's that cute brunette from down the street, that sells you coffee every morning.

Thanks for the tip off, she gives it to me for free now.

Free coffee is great, but how's the bandwidth going?

What prompted me to ask about bandwidth loss in the first place was my web page loading seemed to be taking longer, and even 'sticking'. I ran a full virus check, ad-aware and hard disc defrag, but right now nothing is different; still too slow. Even though the tests indicate I have my full 2MB, my web interaction just does not seem to be as fast as around, say, a month ago.

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10 Megs down and 1 Meg up, with a locked down WiFi makes the world go round,
and nobody can access it...the bandwidth is mine, all mine.

You think so, the frogs are coming for you Doggy....

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What prompted me to ask about bandwidth loss in the first place was my web page loading seemed to be taking longer, and even 'sticking'. I ran a full virus check, ad-aware and hard disc defrag, but right now nothing is different; still too slow. Even though the tests indicate I have my full 2MB, my web interaction just does not seem to be as fast as around, say, a month ago.

I still think that it's probably all about your contention ratio.

http://www.getonlinebroadband.com/faqs/faq02.html

You are more than probably right. NTL upgraded everyone with 1MB to 2MB (including me) FOC about a month ago (coincidence?) and all who had 2MB up to 8MB or some much higher value. So who is stealing my bandwith? My neighbour, everyone in my street, town and the country because someone has got that extra 1MB that I haven't seen yet, and a bit of the 1MB I had.

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10 Megs down and 1 Meg up, with a locked down WiFi makes the world go round,
and nobody can access it...the bandwidth is mine, all mine.

You think so, the frogs are coming for you Doggy....

Bad Froggy!

Do not click on the link if you are easily offended, are a red X freak, or e-mail mommy at the drop of a hat.

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