- Messages
- 2,505
Home Talktalk fibre: 12-16mb
My office Business Talktalk fibre: 69-74mb
My office Business Talktalk fibre: 69-74mb
Your Broadband speed?
- Thread starter pugh-the-special-one
- Start Date
- Messages
- 868
- Location
- Rainham, Kent
I take most of this with a large dose of "REALLY" !!!!!.
My reported speed is just under 40 MB/s.
As I type this I am downloading iRacing on Steam and reaching an eye watering ......... 4.2 MB/s
My reported speed is just under 40 MB/s.
As I type this I am downloading iRacing on Steam and reaching an eye watering ......... 4.2 MB/s
- Messages
- 8,392
- Location
- Little Feckwittering-on-the-Moor
Which could say as much about Steam as your connection (also the difference between megabits & megabytes - crudest level 10:1 difference)
- Messages
- 868
- Location
- Rainham, Kent
That's my point . you can have an infinite speed on a test, but who, what and when you connect to actually download something, is a roll of the dice at best.
- Messages
- 8,392
- Location
- Little Feckwittering-on-the-Moor
Pretty sure that Steam (like most other programs) reports download speed in megabytes per second and broadband speeds are almost always reported in megabits per second. (Think the difference between "dozen eggs" versus "eggs"). Advertisers like to shout big numbers (except when it's the price) so they go for the megabits number. Couple that with journalists who report in this space in the mainstream media being demonstrably clueless about the basic difference and it's unsurprising that those not au fait with the technology being confused.
10 megabits per second is going to look like 1 megabyte per second. (In round numbers, allowing for transmission overheads but conversely 1 byte is actually 8 bits)
So your reported speed is 40 megabits per second, you are downloading at 4.2 megabytes per second.
Regardless - even if Steam is downloading at 4 megabits per second - it means you still have 36 megabits of capacity to do something else at the same time - in this house that's a good thing - means that everyone on the connection gets a decent experience, where in the past on ADSL there was conflict "are you doing xyz? my youtube's just gone crappy"
10 megabits per second is going to look like 1 megabyte per second. (In round numbers, allowing for transmission overheads but conversely 1 byte is actually 8 bits)
So your reported speed is 40 megabits per second, you are downloading at 4.2 megabytes per second.
Regardless - even if Steam is downloading at 4 megabits per second - it means you still have 36 megabits of capacity to do something else at the same time - in this house that's a good thing - means that everyone on the connection gets a decent experience, where in the past on ADSL there was conflict "are you doing xyz? my youtube's just gone crappy"
- Messages
- 10,159
- Location
- Southampton
Sky assure me I get close to 40mb at the front door but Speedtest.net tell me I get 25 - 6 at my computer - before the kids get home from school. Then we play chase around the wi-fi channels - until I switch on the hard wired ethernet though my ring main. Cleaning my computer also makes things snappier.
- Messages
- 8,392
- Location
- Little Feckwittering-on-the-Moor
Move to 5Ghz (802.11n or 802.11ac) and forget about them 
Then you can use the 2.4GHz band to wreck their internet... Not that I did such a thing in my life, ever and that tin snipped baking tray reflecting wireless signal next door is an accident...
Then you can use the 2.4GHz band to wreck their internet... Not that I did such a thing in my life, ever and that tin snipped baking tray reflecting wireless signal next door is an accident...
- Messages
- 10,159
- Location
- Southampton
Yes - all eighteen of us - neighbours in range and I - are on 2.4 GHz + or - and 802.11n, which is the problem, of course. How on earth do I move to 5GHz? I've looked all the places I know of but, of course, cannot find a setting - else I guess we'd all do it.
I don't have any shiny ones but such baking trays are cheap enough!
I don't have any shiny ones but such baking trays are cheap enough!
- Messages
- 8,392
- Location
- Little Feckwittering-on-the-Moor
Need less "previously enjoyed" equipment...
- Messages
- 10,159
- Location
- Southampton
Enigmatic, as is often the case.
- Messages
- 8,392
- Location
- Little Feckwittering-on-the-Moor
New router (or access point...) & the necessary on your equipment
- Messages
- 10,159
- Location
- Southampton
Ah so! First to discover if one would work with Sky and second to discover about 'the necessary on your equipment'. A good project for a rainy weekend. Thank you, good sir!
- Messages
- 8,392
- Location
- Little Feckwittering-on-the-Moor
Ah. Sky. You're f**ked then. You have to use their router (they do check and do suspend your service if you don't) so unless you want to have two boxes you're snookered.
- Messages
- 10,159
- Location
- Southampton
Can I split the incoming broadband signal and pair/tune my computer to the dual band router - use the two routers in 'parallel'? Any clues, please, about what I'd need for my computer - which is a laptop that I don't move?