Sorry, I know it’s really boring, but how do I check what the speed is please?

Thank you so much!

speedtest.net

or if you’re on a bt line there’s a btspeedtester

Click on a porn site and see how smooth the actions are

WCA – what site for good male porn?

Have done the speedtest, got the figures and my poor pretty little head just doesn’t understand it 😳

Can anyone translate please?

You got two numbers. An upload and a download speed.

What were they?

Thanks druid. Have a downstream of 704 kbps. Actual IP throughput 375 and IP profile 500 kbps.

Does that make sense please?

Here’s mine

not bad seeing as I pay for a .5mb line 😉

OK, just done that.

download 0.37
upload 0.21
ping 161

My current IPS BT seems to run a lot slower than the previous one Tiscali.

See above my Tiscali servers great!

c_g – what line speed are you on? That’s really piss poor.

About ten times better now than it was before we got a BT/OpenReach Engineer out:

Tiscali certainly seemed to be an awful lot quicker. How do I find out my line speed?

Well – what are you paying for?

druid – the cheapest of course! Mind you, had to laugh cos I received an e-mail saying that I had nearly exceeded my monthly usage limit. Well, if it was quicker then I wouldn’t have! I don’t download music or movies or anything though.

So – you’re on a 512k connection? Does that even qualify as broadband?

Well, I have been wondering about whether to raise this with BT cos some e-mails that are sent to me don’t even reach me!

I have not had very good dealings with BT and actually regret using them.

How much are you paying a month for this.

Looks like a 512K connection which is pretty much the bottom line for BB speeds.

CG; what have I told you about BT?

FWIW; I was able to sack them off, claiming they failed to deliver a sufficiently acceptable standard of service. They agreed to waive all charges, so I actually had free (albeit piss-poor) internets for about 3 months. But that followed a year of grief, so fair enough.

Don’t get me started on BT…

I know I know. It was a moment of madness 🙄

Have some investigating of small print to do.

After switching from the crap that was BT i average now this:

And when it’s not too busy:

Don’t worry about what their small print says. You are protected under consumer law. They have a duty to provide an acceptable standard of service. Don’t fall for the usual ‘oh, it’s because lots of people are using the internet’ line. That’s bullshit. There’s companies in Canary Wharf, getting proper fast speeds, going through the same exchange as I’m on. Now I’m with Virgin, the speed is much faster.

I got them under their promise to provide a service where I could enjoy ‘streaming video, music and fast download speeds’. A case of Misleading Advertising. Forget the minimum contract; if you get another ISP, there’s bugger all BT can really do.

Use Speedtest, to make a record of the actual speeds you’re getting. Compile a list of your results. Get results from different times of day and night. Then, email the results to them, and ask why their speeds are so bloody slow.

They had baliffs ready to kick my door in. until I told them I’d screw them into the ground, if they din’t desist, and threatened legal action of my own.

Bastards. Utter, utter bastards.

Wireless too:

My download speed has been cut for heavy use as it’s normally 18Mb/s

Probably too much porn and work…

Good old optical broadband, running a bit slower than usual too…

**** hell thats fast-how do I get that? or how much is it!?!

62feckingmegabastards/sec?????

BASTARD!

Ah, look, foreign, in’t it? Eh?

Bloody foreigners. Probbly using slave labour/harmful greenhouse gasses/dodgy nuclear power or something…

Can’t trust ’em. None of ’em.

RudeBoy – Member
62feckingmegabastards/sec?????

BASTARD!

Summed up everyones view today! 😆

**** hell thats fast-how do I get that? or how much is it!?!

Heh heh, the flats we live in are being used to trial optical broadband.
It costs about £20 a month!

Nothing to write home about down here.

I didn’t think too much of twohats speed. fair enough, I thought, he probably relies on his connection.

Then I read further down that it costs him £20 a month.

Know what I said out loud?

YOU BAST@RD!

oh well, it’s still cheaper (and more reliable) than our old BT connection

I want that 60mb one! sky BB is slow

I wish this was mine

Thanks again for all the replies. Have done a bit of digging and the BT Broadband forum is full of complaints about the slow speed. In fact when I typed in my phone number, it said I wouldn’t be able to get broadband!

So … STW folk … have any of you ever managed to terminate a BT contract?

AS BT gave me my new telephone line and I requested broadband as well, if they are unable to fulfill this why should I be paying for something I am not receiving?

Can I face going through another battle with BT?

Oh and RudeBoy – please don’t nag Auntie C_G anymore 🙄