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Bah, internet slugs... 1.19 second average load time
Demonstrates the diminishing returns on speed though.
As I'm at a third of your speed, but only 0.27 seconds slower.
There is definitely an upper limit where your own speed doesn't matter and you're waiting for the other bits (intial connection, DNS lookup, web server response etc) especially on smaller sites with less infrastructure.
Still... wish I could get cable 🙂
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bearing in mind that normally only villages right out in the sticks will have their own exchange
What exactly do you mean by "right out in the sticks"? It's only a 3 mile drive for me right into the centre of Worcester. From the village exchange to the edge of Worcester suburbs is less than a mile - though I get far better internet speeds than them!
aracer, where are you, and where do you normally ride? I live just off the Ombersley road in North Worcester by the way, apparently for some reason we're connected to the Fernhill Heath exchange despite being closer to the town centre... Odd thing is despite my slow download speed, my upload speed seems more consistently fast that many people on much faster connections. Oh, and the comment about the quality of wire Vs quality of the exchance must be true... My DL speed never drops much below 2.5Meg, even at peak times... Must be crap wiring limiting the speed!
Just read Ian Munro's post about "work being a bit more nippy"... HOLY SHIT That's fast!
Here's mine...
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Powick. I'm normally on the Malverns when I ride (though haven't been out for quite a while for a variety of reasons, apart from yesterday afternoon when I was out collecting controls from an orienteering event by bike!) Mostly ride at lunchtimes when I do, since I can "ride from the door" straight onto the hills.
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Mostly ride at lunchtimes when I do, since I can "ride from the door" straight onto the hills.
Cool, drop me an email (it's in my profile) mate... I'm currently sat at home not doing very much (still unemployed, but hopefully for not too much longer) so always up for a ride... Not always easy trying to get any of my mates out cos they've either just got married, are about to, or just got lazy!
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I can live with that.
Looks like work is the place to be to download big files...
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aracer, which village exchange are you referring to? If the Fernhill one, from its location I'd guess it is serving quite a big chunk of North Worcester and could be the same size as the main exchange.
Village local to me is 4 miles from the exchange. Half the village can get broadband...(probably 0.5mb max) the other half can't. Reason - two cables serve the village (via the same route) One cable is completely used by the lucky sods with bb, the other cable has higher losses and supplies the unlucky who have to make do with dial up. I have memories of sitting at the cab searching through the 200 pairs in the good cable in the hope of finding one without a dial tone. The only spares are faulty, and isn't viable to fix them as all the joints are along a twisty national limit road.
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approx £35/ month including unlimited landline phonecalls
Wilkommen in der Schweiz
Bah - just under 2 megathingys here download - and thats bt in a city.
£9 per month through 02 with 3 months free and £100 cashback via Quidco 8)
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Not bad for £6.49 ish with talk talk.
Bloody Hell - this is slow!!
Time for a change methinks!
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Nay bad for the back of beyond Scotland...
From that site:
9264Kbps
480Kbps
02.21 seconds
I pay 21 quid a month, including phone line and cable TV.
Bargain.
aracer, which village exchange are you referring to?
I did say up there, but if you missed it, Powick. Don't think it has any connections into Worcester, despite the edge of the burbs being nearer the exchange than many of those connected to it.
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/WMPOW gives info - only 1352 houses as opposed to 14k for central Worcester exchange, 9k for St Johns which probably serves the nearest burbs and 9k for Fernhill Heath. http://www.samknows.com/broadband/mapping/mapping.php?ecode=WMPOW gives coverage map. In fact you can learn a lot in general there about what sort of BB service you should be able to get.
Oh, and according to that site, Maverickboy, you're likely nearer the FH exchange than the Worcester City one.
...and having seen that I should only get 5.5Mbps I thought I'd check again - my best yet! Can anybody beat 1.37Mbps more than you're supposed to get 8)
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Just ordered one of them iplate thingies off BT, so we'll see if it improves any...
Not even sure whether to believe this one on an "up to 8Mbps" line!
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£15 per month for up to 20Mbps. Drops to £10 if you have a Sky Talk product.
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Speed is very server dependant. I have to connect to somewhere with a fibre optic link to get full speed. Traffic across the Atlantic is a little slow.
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Faster at work - school - but still not flying
20 squid after whinging at virgin...
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Not bad for FREE - I'm a BT employee
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If only it was this good in the evenings - after 4pm my download speeds are about the same as I could get with a good modem, I've seen 45kbps...
Will be changing to something cheaper now that I've seen how much everyone else is paying.
Do I get a prize for having the slowest internet?
I only get 120 kbps download and average page load time is 17.96s!
I'm only 10 miles from Manchester, but somewhat off the beaten track..... I don't think they ever will remember to upgrade us!
Sky BB Unlimited but i'm fairly far from the exchange, and i get it free from work
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it's all to do with distance from the exchange and the quality of internal phone wiring and whether or not you use extensions on your socket - can't really do anything about the distance from the exchange but AOL are shite
Oink, BT iplates will only make a difference if you have fitted internal extensions, otherwise a waste of money.