Test your broadband speed here

[Mick]

Here's a couple of speed tests for you to try.

Or

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

And,

http://speedtester.bt.com/

[alan1572]

download    6.7
upload   1

[Mick]

Your doing OK then Alan.  What service provider do you use? mine's driving me nuts.

  About half hour ago I was getting just over 5mb on the download. 

[stevebedder]

Download 12371kbps
Upload 680kbps

[Mick]

Download 12371kbps
Upload 680kbps

oi, that's not bloomin fair.    What ISP are you with Steve?

[stevebedder]

LOL...

I'm with Sky and they are great!

£10 per month for 16Mb download uncapped and I regularly get 15Mb+, especially when connected to a good server.

I was able to download 3.2Gb from one of our company servers in the USA (not on the company network) in 27 minutes recently.

I'm not far from the local BT exchange (about 0.5 mile) too which I think makes a difference.

Steve

[Mick]

LOL...

I'm with Sky and they are great!

£10 per month for 16Mb download uncapped and I regularly get 15Mb+, especially when connected to a good server.

I was able to download 3.2Gb from one of our company servers in the USA (not on the company network) in 27 minutes recently.

I'm not far from the local BT exchange (about 0.5 mile) too which I think makes a difference.

Steve

  I'm going to look into this methinks.      We used to have sky a few years ago, that was before they started doing broadband, and now it's starting to look attractive again.   

[alan1572]

Your doing OK then Alan.  What service provider do you use? mine's driving me nuts.

  About half hour ago I was getting just over 5mb on the download. 

mick, just moved to 02 from bt

[rksmith51]

Here's mine I'm with BT.

[bones615]

Just run a test after a loyalty upgrade to "up to" 24mbs with talktalk. ( it is 5pm which may slow it!)

[Trickee]

SKY as well

[spinner]

[nickt]

I don't have java installed so I can't run the tests. Do I need Java for anything else?

Nick

[Oldboy]

Just run mine which is down the telephone line on AOL.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1110275495.png

To be honest it varies on time of day and how often I've downloaded/uploaded stuff, as AOL like most ISP's, can slow down your connection. This even happens at 04:00 when I know not many people will be on the system.  

What really upsets me is the upload speed! If you can get 10mb/s download then, all things been equal, it should be the same for uploads. It's the reason I don't bother with Virgin, BT or sky.  

Now, if you think your broadband speed is fast enough then try downloading this picture! http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/01/scienceshot-a-trillion-pixel-image.html?ref=hp   

[Jonathan]

>> What really upsets me is the upload speed! If you can get 10mb/s download then, all things been equal, it should be the same for uploads. It's the reason I don't bother with Virgin, BT or sky. 

You on ADSL?  That's what the A stands for....