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markspark Intermediate Member Offline Posts: 449 Bolton Manchester Gender: Drives: irmscher omega 3.2 elite 2.2 Dti Saloon	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #30 - 04. Feb 2011 at 17:06 what is the ping number what does it mean ????
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #31 - 04. Feb 2011 at 17:07 With Virgin, its really dependent on what other local users are doing. You could argue similar for some ADSL connections, but to a lesser extent. For normal web surfing and email, maybe a bit of iPlayer etc, a standard 8Mb connection is enough for most families to be honest.
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tunnie Over Active Poster Offline Posts: 22520 London, W3 Gender: Drives: 2.2 CD (LPG'd) & BMW R1200 GS	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #32 - 04. Feb 2011 at 17:13 markspark wrote on 04. Feb 2011 at 17:06: what is the ping number what does it mean ???? Ping is usedto test the reachability of a host, it measures the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination. Same term used in submarines, used to measure distance
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aaronjb Omega Baron Offline Posts: 3635 Bracknell, Berkshire Gender: Drives: '01 3.2 Elite (was '96 2.5TD CD), '02 MR2 Roadster (plus snail), '92 300ZX 3.0V6 TT	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #33 - 04. Feb 2011 at 17:13 markspark wrote on 04. Feb 2011 at 17:06: what is the ping number what does it mean ???? It's the time it took for a particular kind of message (actually a single packet of data) to reach the target server and be replied to. Just like the 'ping' you hear in a sumbarine from sonar sweeps in films.. Hence the name.
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tunnie Over Active Poster Offline Posts: 22520 London, W3 Gender: Drives: 2.2 CD (LPG'd) & BMW R1200 GS	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #34 - 04. Feb 2011 at 17:14 is there an echo in here?
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aaronjb Omega Baron Offline Posts: 3635 Bracknell, Berkshire Gender: Drives: '01 3.2 Elite (was '96 2.5TD CD), '02 MR2 Roadster (plus snail), '92 300ZX 3.0V6 TT	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #35 - 04. Feb 2011 at 17:20 tunnie wrote on 04. Feb 2011 at 17:14: is there an echo in here? Would that be an ICMP Echo Request or Echo Response?
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tunnie Over Active Poster Offline Posts: 22520 London, W3 Gender: Drives: 2.2 CD (LPG'd) & BMW R1200 GS	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #36 - 04. Feb 2011 at 17:24
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #37 - 04. Feb 2011 at 17:33 And ping is generally as much use as a used johnny smeared in dogshit when it comes to any form of performance testing.
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Ken T Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1990 Gomersal, Cleckheaton Gender: Drives: 2.6 CDX Auto	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #38 - 04. Feb 2011 at 17:33 We currently get 5.42MB/s down and 0.97MB/s up, Ping 40mS, our ISP is BE. It does seem quite fast downloading stuff, but as others have mentioned quite often pages take a while to download, in some cases don't finish downloading. SOmetimes stoping the transfer and reloading the page produces quick results, strange Ken
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Reply #39 - 04. Feb 2011 at 17:43

Ken T wrote on 04. Feb 2011 at 17:33:

We currently get 5.42MB/s down and 0.97MB/s up, Ping 40mS, our ISP is BE.

It does seem quite fast downloading stuff, but as others have mentioned quite often pages take a while to download, in some cases don't finish downloading. SOmetimes stoping the transfer and reloading the page produces quick results, strange Huh

Ken

What do you think of BE ?? I was looking at their "packages" combined broadband and landline ... prices seem quite competetive ...

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Reply #40 - 04. Feb 2011 at 17:48

Entwood wrote on 04. Feb 2011 at 17:43:

Ken T wrote on 04. Feb 2011 at 17:33:

We currently get 5.42MB/s down and 0.97MB/s up, Ping 40mS, our ISP is BE.

It does seem quite fast downloading stuff, but as others have mentioned quite often pages take a while to download, in some cases don't finish downloading. SOmetimes stoping the transfer and reloading the page produces quick results, strange Huh

Ken

What do you think of BE ?? I was looking at their "packages" combined broadband and landline ... prices seem quite competetive ...

O2 use BeThere's infrastructure, and most people seem happy with that (DNS issues aside, and a suspect mail service). And only around £7 for ADSL2 stuff, if you have an O2 mobile phone.

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Entwood Omega King Offline Quietly Confident Posts: 13708 North Wiltshire Gender: Drives: 3.2 Elite (with LPG)	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #41 - 04. Feb 2011 at 17:56 Don't have O2 .. but BE broadband + anytime landline works out at £32 a month ... I'm presently paying out £51 by the time you take calls/line rental/BB from 3 different suppliers into account. Looking for a decent "all in one" package.
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hercules Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1031 sunnyudders Gender: Drives: bighorn,the lotus edition	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #42 - 04. Feb 2011 at 19:50 im happy with mine
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Re: 50 mb broadband
Reply #43 - 05. Feb 2011 at 00:22

Broomies Mate wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:25:

millwall wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:18:

they've just upped the upload speed apparently not sure of the figures though

Just as an example, Romania has an AVERAGE upload speed 10x faster than the AVERAGE UK upload speed.

Their average download speed is less than 2.5x the average UK download speed.

I haven't chosen Romania as a comparison just because they are an exception, this is true for the majority of the world.

And here I am, on the outskirts of one of the biggest citys in the UK, paying £18 per month for something that is usually around the 350-600 K/bs. And that's the best that I can get!

Pathetic really. Angry

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Reply #44 - 05. Feb 2011 at 10:07

V6 CDX-er wrote on 05. Feb 2011 at 00:22:

Broomies Mate wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:25:

millwall wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:18:

they've just upped the upload speed apparently not sure of the figures though

Just as an example, Romania has an AVERAGE upload speed 10x faster than the AVERAGE UK upload speed.

Their average download speed is less than 2.5x the average UK download speed.

I haven't chosen Romania as a comparison just because they are an exception, this is true for the majority of the world.

And here I am, on the outskirts of one of the biggest citys in the UK, paying £18 per month for something that is usually around the 350-600 K/bs. And that's the best that I can get!

Pathetic really. Angry

Free market economy. If companies think they can make money, they will put the infrastructure in. If nobody thinks money can be made, just be greatful that BT are prepared (not legislated Wink

) to... ...then allow other ISPs to use it virtually at cost.

What solution would you suggest?

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