SKY Broadband

[plod]

Wild women of mongo?????

Not that's a mistake it's wongo isn't it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac81KL9V ... re=related

[DaiRees]

I'm with Sky. Regularly used to get 6.something when I was on 8 Meg service which I thought was pretty good. Now I'm on the 20 Meg service I'm getting just less than 8

It's to do with time of day, quality of the line and your distance from the exchange (unless you've got fibre optic), if your broadband is slow it's not always the ISP's fault. They have to advertise speeds as "up to" now don't they?

[FarmerPug]

so its the marketing departments fualt, internet companies saying up to, and vauxhall saying could. All lies.

[highlander]

whats ping

Ping is actually an acronym, standing for "Packet INternet Groper"

It is a diagnostic tool, primarily, but is used to work out the amount of time it takes for a packet of data to get from one host to another host, and back (this is the ping response time, and is typically measured in miliseconds).

The protocol used by ping is ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol), which is also used by the "traceroute" command ("tracert" in Windows/DOS).

[FarmerPug]

i see your in aberdeen right beside the place where my internet is coming from, is yours any quicker.

[highlander]

OK, just a little correction - your internet does not come from Aberdeen; your internet point of presence will be in Ireland, else your internet would be utterly sh*t - you'd have horrendously slow connections. All that's happening is that SpeedTest.net wants to use a server in Aberdeen as its test unit (it tests your internet connectivity by downloading data from and uploading data to this host, and using PING to measure the latency between your PC and that server). If there is a closer server on the map (and there are - Dublin, Dundalk, and Derry), click on one of those to run the test from there.

Guys - just a heads-up - the Mbit/sec rate isn't the whole story behind your internet performance - there are two other main factors - namely "contention ratio" and "latency".

Contention ratio is the number of users whose broadband lines go through the same Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) in the telephone exchange. The DSLAM takes in multiple DSL lines and uses multiplexing technology to pass the data for all of these lines through one single fibreoptic connection. This reduces the amount of cabling involved running between telephone exchanges/internet tier sites. The downside is that if the contention ratio is too high, you won't get much actual internet traffic. Typical contention ratios offered by ISPs are anywhere from 20:1 to 50:1 (meaning that there are between 20 and 50 DSL lines for every 1 DSLAM at the local exchange).

Latency is the amount of time taken for a packet of data to get from your PC to the DSLAM (actually, to any other host on the internet, but that's not something easily controllable - so the provider will only care about latency between your PC and the DSLAM). The more cabling between your home and the exchange, the higher the latency will be. People in rural areas using satellite or radio broadband (because they live too far from the exchange for landline-based DSL) will experience MUCH higher latency due to the greater distances involved - satellite internet will have a typical latency of 500 - 600ms, simply due to the distance between the satellite dish and the satellite, and the satellite and the earth station, and the earth station and the provider's internet hub. People on Sky Broadband aren't on satellite broadband though.

Anyway, here's my result:


I'm meant to be getting "up to" 16 Mbit/sec, but everyone knows (or should know) that never happens to anyone who doesn't live RIGHT next door to the exchange, with the cable running in a straight line between their master socket and the DSLAM.

[kevtherev]

this is mine , not that bad really for 6.99 a month. thats with talk talk

[adamr8965]

LOOK how crap this sky broadband is i am paying for upto 20meg , very rarely go over 5 so wtf is upto 20 all about,

Gary i need your router stats, you can get these by login into your router and show statistics. What im looking for your connection speed, noise margin, and connection attenuation, these three stats determine how fast your connected to the net.

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 20479 kbps 1023 kbps
Line Attenuation 24.5 db 11.0 db
Noise Margin 3.8 db 11.7 db

Those are mine

Heres my speed test.

[trem1]

i'm on 10mb from virgin so i'm happy with mine

[FarmerPug]

adams seems to be the fastest

[plod]

LOOK how crap this sky broadband is i am paying for upto 20meg , very rarely go over 5 so wtf is upto 20 all about,

Gary i need your router stats, you can get these by login into your router and show statistics. What im looking for your connection speed, noise margin, and connection attenuation, these three stats determine how fast your connected to the net.

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 20479 kbps 1023 kbps
Line Attenuation 24.5 db 11.0 db
Noise Margin 3.8 db 11.7 db

Those are mine

Heres my speed test.

Can you help me also as paying for 20 and best i've had when testing this weekend is 2.5
How do you log in to your router? sorry not very pc savvy

[adamr8965]

plod what router you got?
Most are 192.168.0.1
or 192.168.0.2

Then look for router stats.

If you cant find it then tell me your make and model of router.

[plod]

plod what router you got?
Most are 192.168.0.1
or 192.168.0.2

Then look for router stats.

If you cant find it then tell me your make and model of router.

It's a Netgear but can't find a model number on it, but if I go on my network and router properties
it says DG934G
and it also says 192.168.0.1

[adamr8965]

plod type the 192.168.0.1 in the website bar hit enter.
Ask for you for admin and password.

Its just admin and password type them in login hit enter and then it brings up the router stats scroll to the bottom of that screen and theres a button called show statistic's hit that then copy and the paste on here the router downstream noise margin line attuation box so i can see how fast your connection is. It might just need tweeking at your isp's end.

[FarmerPug]

i have a bt home hub, but before that there was a netgear machine which was better.