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I'm curious to know the real world speeds of this plan.

Bigpond Liberty 12GB ADSL2+ data per month

Can as many people as possible post and give me an indication of their real download speeds that they get on average.

I'm expecting some sock puppets who will no doubt give me some wonderful speeds.

What I want to know is the lowest speeds people are getting (worst case scenarios).

I would like to hear from anybody in Victoria whether it be the city or the country areas.

I used this link to dowload 71MB stormchasers video in 720P HD.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

I get 231KB/sec down load to 155KB which is reasonably stable.

I dont like that file. Starts at a nice speed, 1.15mB/s then goes down and down. Kinda sad for microsoft as most good sites i get over 1mB/s. Although thats not saying i dont get 1mb/s off microsoft as i sometimes do. Just want it all the itme.

wow, got me a nice 3.95-4.10MByte/sec on

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/d/d/3ddf1a46-28cd-4b09-9e59-2f111da3545e/Stormchasers_720.exe

I'm Melb, Cable extreme (on std i would get about 1.15MB/s)

OP: you didnt say what connection you were after, ADSL or Cable??

im on cable standard liberty in melb, average abour 850kb/s from microsoft

GoEAT writes...

im on cable standard liberty in melb, average abour 850kb/s from microsoft

OK so your getting 106 KB is that correct ?

|g00nster| writes...

I'm Vic, Cable extreme (on std i would get about 1.15MB/s)

Your on cable I meant BP Liberty 12GB ADSL2+.

M3Zephyer® writes...

OK so your getting 106 KB is that correct ?

what? no.
average of 850KB/s

BReTT. writes...

dont like that file. Starts at a nice speed, 1.15mB/s then goes down and down.

OK so what does it stablise on – what speed ?

My download of that file starts at a burst rate of 231KB/sec and goes down to just above my speed of 156KB/sec.

GoEAT writes...

what? no.

average of 850KB/s

Thats better, I thought geezez thats terrible on cable !! O_o

M3Zephyer® writes...

Your on cable I meant BP Liberty 12GB ADSL2+.

ahh k. well, bigpond have a liberty 12gb plan on cable and adsl

have you already been over the thread on speedtests?
/forum-replies.cfm?t=609368

downloading from microsoft just pulls data from the AKAMAI servers so you should pretty much be downloading as fast as possible – not really a indication of real world speeds since it's cache

|g00nster| writes...

not really a indication of real world speeds since it's cache

And that means what ?

|g00nster| writes...

have you already been over the thread on speedtests?

/forum-replies.cfm?t=609368

Most of those seem to be on cable and the other ones don't state what plan they are on ?

i'd choose cable over adsl2 if i were you. cheaper and faster.

M3Zephyer® writes...

Bigpond Liberty 12GB ADSL2+ data per month

I am on the same plan

getting 395KB from the site

M3Zephyer® writes...

And that means what ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies

Akamai transparently mirrors content (usually media objects such as audio, graphics, animation, video) stored on customer servers.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1999/sept99/AkamaiPr.mspx

By becoming an Akamai customer, Microsoft joins the list of leading Web companies that rely on Akamai for high-performance, reliable delivery of content to their users.

Basically it means that Akamai transparently mirrors Microsoft (and a lot of other sites) to give everyone excellent speeds from the mirror.

I can download at twice the speed from Microsoft/Apple then i can from Gamearena/BP Files.

It cannot really be used to measure the 'norm' as it isnt, it's the opposite, it's the best speeds you'll ever get (good for speedtests though)

M3Zephyer® writes...

I get 231KB/sec down load to 155KB which is reasonably stable.

One of the biggest factors that will affect the speed of this download is BigPond's DNS servers!?!?!

If download.microsoft.com is resolved to a local AKAMAI cache, then you will max out whatever your connect speed is like this:

|g00nster| writes...

wow, got me a nice 3.95-4.10MByte/sec on

However, for me at the moment, download.microsoft.com resolves to 72.246.103.33 which is in the US and I get slow speeds.

I'd be interested to know what IP address this resolves to for others.

JunkCrusader writes...

However, for me at the moment, download.microsoft.com resolves to 72.246.103.33 which is in the US and I get slow speeds.

OK so what are you infering that Bigponds international links are slow ?

he he My ADSL 1500/256 is faster than some on Bigpond Liberty ADSL2+ !!! :D

M3Zephyer® writes...

OK so what are you infering that Bigponds international links are slow ?

all australian international links are slow in comparison to local speeds...

if i download via an international link i can probably only get 160KB/s per thread of whatever download manager i use.

M3Zephyer® writes...

OK so what are you infering that Bigponds international links are slow

If it's cached, you're downloading from a server in Australia. If it's not, you're downloading from the US. Obviously it has to transmit further – and thus, the speeds are slow.

It's nothing to do with BigPond's link – they're all pretty much the same. It is just due to our location/separation from the rest of the world.

|g00nster| writes...

if i download via an international link i can probably only get 160KB/s per thread of whatever download manager i use.

What happens if you don't use the download manager ?

What is the maximum speed that you can download this video at without using a download manager ?

71MB stormchasers video in 720P HD.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

So regardless of where the video is, I can get it at a similar speed to someone that is on Bigpond ADSL 2+ !

I just read that Bigpond only guarantee 110 KB/sec on BP Liberty 12GB plan – is this true ?

16215116 M3Zephyer® writes...
What happens if you don't use the download manager ?

i said i get 160KB/s per thread of international traffic.

When i use multi threaded application my overall speed is almost linear to the total threads, eg, 20 threads x 160KB/s = ~3.2MB/s

I know there's a limit placed per thread on my international traffic yet i also know im not near capacity of my connection so when i use something that makes use of this i can get faster speeds (think premium newsgroups)

What is the maximum speed that you can download this video at without using a download manager ?

I posted my max speed before, I only use the built in download manager for IE or a command line app called "wget" – Neither support multi-threading.

|g00nster| writes...

When i use multi threaded application my overall speed is almost linear to the total threads, eg, 20 threads x 160KB/s = ~3.2MB/s

OK so your in Melbourne and your on the cable extreme plan.

Which to me is pointless because that is not what I am after.

M3Zephyer® writes...

Which to me is pointless because that is not what I am after.

Wouldnt the information i posted tell you something important though...

Lets see, some of the stuff i've posted tonight was about transparent mirrors, Local Vs. International traffic, limits and bottlenecks

M3Zephyer® writes...

So regardless of where the video is, I can get it at a similar speed to someone that is on Bigpond ADSL 2+ !

You've oversimplified this a lot.

The major factors in determining the real world speed you get on ADSL2+ is; Sync speed, time of day, load/bandwidth of server, location of server.

I just read that Bigpond only guarantee 110 KB/sec on BP Liberty 12GB plan – is this true ?

Yes, that is the only guarantee. Majority of people should do much better than that, but it is the only guaranteed speed, because there are so many other factors involved in internet speed. Chances are if you read the fine print of all ISP plans, they will be pretty much the same. No-one will absolutley guarantee much over 110KB/sec, because they don't want to get into arguments with customers over the fact the you get 200KB/sec and your mate 3 suburbs away gets 500KB/sec.

JT

M3Zephyer® writes...

guarantee

yes, mean they will look for a problem if your not getting 110 KBytes/s but if not you can try but if not a fault that stands out IE line is reporting errors.

M3Zephyer® what exactly are you trying to find out in this thread

GoEAT writes...

M3Zephyer® what exactly are you trying to find out in this thread

Hmm a bit tender eh :D ... the "achilles heal" of this plan.

I'm after the truth.

And seeing as Sol is not into any "kumbaya, holding hands" I want to know just how fast or how slow this "claimed" speed is.

I'm gettting more than the contracted speed that I signed up to, so I'm happy in that regard.

I just got off the phone with someone that has the BP Liberty 12GB ADSL2+ plan and he told me the speed drop for him was depresssing compared to his OPTUS ADSL2 where he was getting approximately 930KB/s and higher.

His estimate was of the speed that he is getting is 150 KB/s, so this is far from what I thought one would get for the BP Liberty ADSL2+ plan that Telstra is offering me.

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Guaranteed 110Kb/sec eh? Hmm, does that mean I have legitimate means to contact someone about why I've only been getting a maximum of 10KB/sec on the 12GB Liberty plan for the past week or more?

At first I thought it may just be I had exceeded the limit and had been returned to dial-up speeds as stated in the plan, however the usage summary shows I haven't even used 5GB as of today, one day before the new payable month starts.

adamstockdale writes...

maximum of 10KB/sec on the 12GB Liberty plan for the past week or more?

Do their speed test on their site (Ie downloading this file)

https://storage.bigpond.com/public/bin/OnlineStorage.exe

adamstockdale writes...

Guaranteed 110Kb/sec eh?

Surely you couldn't be getting speeds that low on ADSL2+, I would cancel immediatly and look for another ISP.

You must mean 110KB, I get 230KB down to 149KB ~155KB, I woudn't put up with rubbish like that.

This to me is the big problem with Bigpond, when they advertise speeds FROM 110KB up to 20,000 kbp/s this is just not good enough.

Can you imagine a car dealer saying Umm well give you a car it will be something between a small Hyundai up to a Bugattii Veyron – yeah right !!!

Look most people are getting a standard Holden but of course it could be the Hyundai, we have no way of telling ???

But hey one guys got a Bugatti Veyron (winking and smiling salesman pitch)!!

But this is exaclty what people are signing up to ?

The mind boggles.

This is the speed I get on Optus ADSL 1500/256, as you can see its well within what it should be.

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm50/Herodotus1000/transferspeed-1.jpg

THR writes...

It's nothing to do with BigPond's link – they're all pretty much the same. It is just due to our location/separation from the rest of the world.

Well how do you explain my post above were I'm getting 151 KB/ps ?

Optus is in Australia isn't it ?

And if Bigpond are superior well why don't they have better or comparable speeds ?

Mine is average of 900KB/s..

To give you an idea of the speed, it have taken just 6 minutes to download a 316MB file of WinXP SP3.

This is mighty quick, not like on dailup which would take all day to get the file.

Why are there so few people polling, its in your interest to get an accurate idea of what speeds you can expect from this plan ?

Why do I get the feeling suddenly that the poll is skewed ?

Come on we need more hits on this pole !!

A speed less than < 50 KB you can't be serious ?

:D I'm laughing !

47 votes – come on you guys !!!

640+ views but only 47 votes why ?

We need a lot more votes !!

I get 1.15MB/sec on Liberty Cable and 2.25MB/sec On Liberty Extreme.

sumguy writes...

I get 1.15MB/sec on Liberty Cable and 2.25MB/sec On Liberty Extreme.

Is that ADSL2+ ?

That file starts of flying then I get a constant 333KB/sec.

slapnut writes...

That file starts of flying then I get a constant 333KB/sec.

If it was 666KB/sec you'd be worried :P. I too are getting only 300KB/s and I've started my net month dunno why, downloading from anywhere including bigpond and gamearena gives me a solid ~300KB/s, I've done various tests.

Dunno whats going on there but yeh, like to hear what speeds other people are getting today.

Chalk N' Cheese writes...

If it was 666KB/sec you'd be worried :P

:) My mate in Canberra used to get approximately 930KB/s download using Optus Direct.

Now that he's in Canberra he gets a lot less on Liberty ADSL2+. ( haven't got a figure).

slapnut writes...

That file starts of flying then I get a constant 333KB/sec.

That's double what I get but I'm only on 1500/256.

If I was paying that kind of money I would want much faster speeds.

Thanks for the info. :)

Over 900 views and only 61 votes ?

What gives ?

Nearly 1020 views and we only have 68 votes, thats pathetic ????!!!!

Its in your own interest to know what the average person on the Liberty plan is actually gettting ?

Wow !!! Such a contrast in speeds.

50 KB and (below ?) up to 2000 KB.

Could you please post something !

I'm beginning to think that this post is a thorn in BPs side. :P

I can get up to ~2400 kb/sec depending where I download from. The ABC2 website is a good download rate for me (2400) and SOMETIMES GameArena can give me suitable speeds. It all depends where you download from. If all you do is download from Rapidshare on a free account then your not going to get much speed are you? It's generally capped at the servers end and not the users end. So those with <50 make sure your actually downloading off some site that can give you a good speed and your not shaped for the month.

so much Anti-Telstra/Bigpond stuff there MZ.

With the number of posts ye have though, ye should know that Line Speed is limited to the Line Condition etc, rather than the Plan's speed your on.

For example, at my current residence, based off my Modem readins, I wouldn't expect more than 4 Mbps. Not something I would relate to the plan I on or anything, thats simply a cause of the distance I am from the exchange etc.

You might get different results with different Providers (Backhaul etc) but, the main issue with Speed is Line Condition.

<3 Scotch

Edit : Double Post

I'm well aware of the line conditions etc.

I pay for 1500/256, and that is the speed I expect to get, I don't give them 5 ~ 50 dollars, I give then what I agreed to, no less no more.

When I heard that Telstra had plans with the wording "up to" I just laughed.

That could be anything.

Not good enough.

No way !!!

many views but not many posts..

everyones computer and setup is different.
with different hardware inside their computer, different network setup, settings/configurations, different software installed, line quality etc. the list goes on.
not all are the same, hence not everyone can reach the maximum advertised speed.

i guess, you get what you pay for, live next door to the exchange, with the best quality line, buy the best computer and set it up for maximum speed

M3Zephyer® writes...

When I heard that Telstra had plans with the wording "up to" I just laughed.

And no other ISP does that?

Internode says...

The next generation of ADSL broadband, Extreme® ADSL2+ services are capable of download speeds of up to an incredible 24 Megabits per second.

IInet says...

More than half of our broadband2+ customers experience speeds in excess of 10,000kbps with a small percentage clearing 20,000kbps, up to 24,000kbps.

Do I need to go on? But I guess, its Bigpond, If they do something it's automatically Evil, while its fine for other ISP's

;)

When I compare Internode's with BigPond I'm left with the feeling that Internode is transparent and frank about what they are claiming thats not the feeling I get from Telstra BigPond's ADSL2+ service, where even the fine print "LINK" is right down the bottom of the page in very fine print.

Initially I missed the link and thought what was at the bottom of the page was the fine print until I looked further.

http://www.internode.on.net/residential/internet/home_adsl/extreme/

http://my.bigpond.com/internetplans/broadband/adsl/adsl2/default.jsp

Hi guys I just want to share with you what is happening in my complex (QLD) I think is kind of relevant to the topic. Dont get to exited with Fiber optic as there are issues with this technology if you dont believe me as Telstra.
I live in one of those communities that the builder made an agreement with Telstra to install fiber optic to every townhouse. The problem that we are having is if you use more than one Ethernet point at one time you get disconnected after 10 minutes. We had Telstra technicians come into the complex with different versions of what is going on but none of then have being able to fix the problem.
I dont like Telstra at all I think they overcharge there customers but I dont have a choice.

I have Cable 12G Liberty Extreme. Have had it for around 18 months. Initially we could get close to the advertised max speeds (30,000 kbps) on a regular basis. This plan costs me $70 per month. For the last few months we have noticed the speed slowing. I do regular speed tests from Telstra servers and at different times of the day. The best I can now get is 11,000 kbps. The plan lower than the one I'm on is the Cable 12G Liberty standard plan with speeds capped at 8,000. On contacting Telstra Technical services and going through the switch everything off and on again process and line testing they told me that the line signal was "down a bit" but because I was getting greater that 880 kbps I would have to pay for any Technician call outs! Let me re cap – I pay for up to 30,000 kbps, I get max 11,000 kbps and its only an issue to Telstra if I get below 880kbps. Is this not stealing?Telstra take my money and do not provide the service I pay for. That is a criminal offence. If anyone else conducted business this way they would be charged. By the way 2 other people in our street have exactly the same issue and are on the same plans (because this is what the door to door sales people sold).

Any ideas out there on what we can do. Do we band together and make a complaint to the regulator? Do we go to one of the current affairs programs? Do others have the same problem?

Napalm writes...

Telstra take my money and do not provide the service I pay for. That is a criminal offence. If anyone else conducted business this way they would be charged.

What do they guaruntee ?

You have to read the fine print and determine what the minimum speed is.

Any way back on topic.

This is an only ADSL2+ area. Sorry.

Come on we need more hits !!! :O)

Johnny KKK writes...

Mine is average of 900KB/s..

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

what speed are you getting if you download this file ?

... dowload 71MB stormchasers video in 720P HD.

I would be interested to read what speed you are getting ?

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

And what happens, do you intially get a burst of speed, and then it tapers off or does it start slow and get faster ?

Are you one BP Liberty ADSL2+ with 10GB ?

Wow. 200kb/s on ADSL2+ for the first poster! That hurts!

I have ADSL 8mbps plan and am getting speeds of around 650-750kb/s depending on what site and whether i am using Free Download Manager or not. I am around 3.7km away from my exchange as well...

M3Zephyer® writes...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

what speed are you getting if you download this file ?

... dowload 71MB stormchasers video in 720P HD.

As an edit, i just got speeds of around 660kb/s from that link. And i am on an 8mbps plan.

Miney writes...

As an edit, i just got speeds of around 660kb/s from that link. And i am on an 8mbps plan.

Do you mean kbp/s or KBytes per second ?

85 people that is sad really. :(

Well its getting there slowly.

Still it would be nice to get say three hundred or five hundred to get a better idea of what one could expect.

Why is it that there are so few people polling ?

on 8000/384 plan
http://www.speedtest.net/result/319077908.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/319078741.png

Normally, I get around 1024KB/s (1MB/s) however, as of today, I seem to get a max of 100KB/s with an average of around 60KB/s. Something has gone wrong...

DogGunn writes...

max of 100KB/s with an average of around 60KB/s. Something has gone wrong...

It couldn't be 60KB p/s that 7.5 kb p/s, thats getting down to dialup ?

Is this on the Liberty ADSL2+ plan ???

bigjay writes...

on 8000/384 plan

I used this link to dowload 71MB stormchasers video in 720P HD.

Try this instead of the domestic adsl speed test that you did.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

Is there anybody using the Telstra Liberty ADSL2+ plan ?

l'm on cable standard liberty Narre Warren, tranfer rate 740KB/Sec, took 1min 35sec

BShifty writes...

l'm on cable standard liberty Narre Warren, tranfer rate 740KB/Sec, took 1min 35sec

Thanks BShifty, but I'm looking for people that are on ADSL2+ – NOT CABLE.

i used to be on cable 10 Mbit, now on DSL. Horses for different courses, i guess.

I noticed 30% of you receive 2 MB/s+, that's 120 MB per minute, which is fast... does that mean you get to download at 64kbps after the first 100 minutes of your plan?

Then I guess value comes out @ around $5 per Gigabyte yeh?

For me, I'm paying $1.13 a gigabyte for 76 gb, including my Telstra Homeline Budget. My line can max out 1 Mbps most of the time for my plan.

So it's hard to beat that at the 'Pond yah?

I'm getting around 500k that is a bummer :/

hibernator writes...

I noticed 30% of you receive 2 MB/s+, that's 120 MB per minute, which is fast... does that mean you get to download at 64kbps after the first 100 minutes of your plan?

Anybody on dialup could vote that they are getting 2MB/s there's no way of knowing whether these speeds are correct.

Still lets hope they are for everybody's who uses Bigpond ADSL2+.

Hey what happened to the poll ? :-/

Part of the bar graph is missing, did someone hack it ?

Can a moderator explain to me why there are now no bar graph in the <50KB and 50KB regions ?

Why are there so few votes ?

Can you now see how conspiracy theories are born ? :)

I just tried on my Extreme liberty and got 2800KB/s

Here's mine on ADSL2+ 12GB Liberty

http://www.speedtest.net/result/326365587.png

This is about 2 megabytes per seconds but I only manage 1.5mb in firefox even on unmetered sites. I don't know why. Steam downloads at the full 2 mb/ps speed.

And I live in a small town near Rockhampton :)

M3Zephyer® writes...

Surely you couldn't be getting speeds that low on ADSL2+, I would cancel immediatly and look for another ISP.

Its possible they have a line fault which is irrelevant of the ISP and need to be addressed.

† HeliKaon † writes...

Its possible they have a line fault which is irrelevant of the ISP and need to be addressed.

Bigpond and Telstra are one and the same are they not ?

If there was a line fault it is in the interest of that person to have the line fixed.

Why wouldn't you do anything about it ?

Brian White writes...

I just tried on my Extreme liberty and got 2800KB/

Your on cable why did you post ?

oz geek writes...

Here's mine on ADSL2+ 12GB Liberty

http://www.speedtest.net/result/326365587.png

This is about 2 megabytes per seconds but I only manage 1.5mb in firefox even on unmetered sites. I don't know why. Steam downloads at the full 2 mb/ps speed.

Would you like to try this test and tell me what speed you get ?

I used this link to dowload 71MB stormchasers video in 720P HD.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

M3Zephyer® writes...

Why wouldn't you do anything about it ?

you seem to have misunderstood,

They may have a line fault that needs to be addressed rather then cancelling their service and churning which can take a minimum of 6 days to remove codes, jumper and reapply new codes, then find still the same line fault leading to further delays, whereas they should contact their techsupport and get a fault lodged if required, which will take ~3 days ..

M3Zephyer® writes...

Would you like to try this test and tell me what speed you get ?

Actually I downloaded XP SP3 from a Microsoft server and it downloaded at 2.1 megabytes per second. Why is it I can download full speed from MS's website and even steam (using GameArena's mirror), and only download up to 1.5mb/s from any bigpond servers :(

oz geek writes...

Why is it I can download full speed from MS's website and even steam (using GameArena's mirror), and only download up to 1.5mb/s from any bigpond servers :(

Cause MS's files come from Akamai cache server that would be in QLD next time download something do a "netstat" and you see a hostname with Akamai in it, treaceroute to that and you see its in QLD, where i believe GameArena's server are in NSW.

oz geek writes...

Why is it I can download full speed from MS's website and even steam (using GameArena's mirror), and only download up to 1.5mb/s from any bigpond servers :(

TCP tuning. The extra latency between NSW and Qld isn't much, but window size limits on Bigpond servers are insufficient to keep the pipe full for high-speed clients.
Even though I'm with Bigpond, I get much better "OzSpeedTest" results from the Optusnet mirror than the Bigpond one.

This is what netstat say about when I downloaded a video from the files library.

TCP home:1315 ga14.gamearena.com.au:3030 ESTABLISHED

We're getting a bit off topic please try to keep it on the topic – thanks !!!

http://www.speedtest.net/result/330238286.png
I spose my speed is ok. Im in Nth QLD ADSL2

KINGind™ writes...

I spose my speed is ok. Im in Nth QLD ADSL2

Well if your on ADSL2+ thats seems reasonable.

Would you like to try this test and tell me what speed you get ?

I used this link to dowload 71MB stormchasers video in 720P HD.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

Sure. I used the same vid 71MB stormchasers video in 720P HD.
Averaged between 450 and 500kbps

KINGind™ writes...

Averaged between 450 and 500kbps

Hmm 56.6KB, you know that ain't the best don't you ?

I hope thats not what you get the majority of the time ?

And what do you mean by average ?

My internet connection mostly starts off at say a burst of 230KB then settles down to between 150KB ~ 160KB, sometimes I don't get these speeds but that's rare.

KINGind™ writes...

Sure. I used the same vid
Averaged between 450 and 500kbps

154KB/sec for me

Bionic Wombat writes...

154KB/sec for me

That speed seems to be quite common.

That's the speed I get on 1500/256 ADSL.

I downloaded most of stormchasers and I sat on around 4.0MB/sec

http://www.speedtest.net/result/331632493.png

th3wolf writes...

I downloaded most of stormchasers and I sat on around 4.0MB/sec

Your on cable, this thread is a ADSL2+ only thread – sorry !!!

Had 3 ISP at this address and speed has pretty much been the same
Download Upload
5687 kb/s 673 kb/s

[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/333027393.png[/IMG][/URL]

Rendog writes...

Had 3 ISP at this address and speed has pretty much been the same

Download Upload

5687 kb/s 673 kb/s

[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/333027393.png[/IMG][/URL]

how far you from exchange?

smokey777 writes...

how far you from exchange?

about 2.5kms from the exchange in terms of cable length according the the TPG maps

M3Zephyer® writes...

Hmm 56.6KB, you know that ain't the best don't you ?

I hope thats not what you get the majority of the time ?

Yeah it could be better, done another test, tell me wot u think...
http://www.speedtest.net/result/333480046.png

Thats a bit better, still pretty slow considering im meant to be on ADSL2+ 25B
Sometimes its slows down rediculously, spoke to bigpond tech support and they said whenever it happens just refresh my ip address. Seem to be doing that quite regularly though.

M3Zephyer® writes...

ADSL2+ only thread – sorry !!!

I wished they had cheaper plans :)

KINGind™ writes...

Yeah it could be better, done another test, tell me wot u think...

Would you like to try the test below ?

If you do, post your speed in KB.

Thanks in advance.

I used this link to dowload 71MB stormchasers video in 720P HD.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

I'm not going to read to much into the score because the international links are terrible at the moment from what I can gather.

I'll do a test myself and let you know what I'm getting.

302KB/s
Appalling I reckon ... spose to be on the highest speed available from BP ... being 3180 m estimated cable length to the exchange. Think I may have router config wrong. ?

DavoP writes...

302KB/s

Yes that is terrrible for ADSL2+, but if you mean cable its even worse.

I think its outrageous considering what one pays for this kind of service.

A lot of people seem to like candy...

i got 29.7 kb avarage

Jackte writes...

i got 29.7 kb avarage

yes and your are on 256 plan. So you got what you paid for.

Im on bigpond cable extreme, and im new to it, Last month i had 3gb left with 2days to go, so i set up a 4.1 gb tv series to download off iso hunt, in the 2 days it only downloaded 1.5gb, but when my month clicked over the rest of the file downloaded over night, (i had no upload isues so i wasnt over my limit) I use Utorrent

How long should it take a 700mb movie to download on cable extreme

will welcome all positive responses

Foz

Jackte writes...

i got 29.7 kb avarage

Why don't you just get a dial up account it would be cheaper. :P

Foziebear69 writes...

How long should it take a 700mb movie to download on cable extreme

I used this link to dowload 71MB stormchasers video in 720P HD.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

Try down loading this file, if you don't want to download it all just download approximately 30% and then cut it, have a look at what speed it is downloading it at.

Have at the transfer rate under the download to ...

That will give you and idea of how fast your connection is or how slow it is. :P