James Egan

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:08:12 -0000, "Gizmo." <Nothome@right.now>
wrote:

>Jesus H Christ ... now the resident fuckwit is trying to strike up a
>conversation with a spammer

H as in, "Our Father, who art in heaven, harold be thy name"?


Jim

The Natural Philosopher

Eeyore wrote:
>
> Doug Spinney wrote:
>
>> But there is quite a few more out there, such as:
>>
>> http://speedcheck.ispconnect.co.uk/
>
> That's fucking ridiculous but what els would you expect from Tiscali ?
>
> " Your current bandwidth reading is: 1.14 Mbps
> which means you can download at 145.8 KB/sec. from our servers "
>
> And the bbmax test just returned a figure of nearly 7000 kbps !
>
So BBmax is lying?

> Graham
>
>
>

Eeyore

Kris wrote:

> Eeyore writes:
> > > That can max out my 24Mb Be Pro connection at just over 2MB down / 270KB
> > > up.
> >
> > That's NOT 'maxing out' by a LONG way depending on your conection statistics.
> >
> > Try http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/
>
> 24 megabit connection. 2 megabytes per second down, 270 kilobytes per
> second up. Synced at 23098 kbps down / 2468 kbps up.

I'm puzzled by the seemingly slow up speed.


> The one you linked to doesn't go as fast as the thinkbroadband tester.

I haven't had the pleasure of finding that out. It certainly registers a 'score' of
greater than 7000 kbps for my connection at times.

Graham

Kris

Eeyore writes:
> > 24 megabit connection. 2 megabytes per second down, 270 kilobytes per
> > second up. Synced at 23098 kbps down / 2468 kbps up.
>
> I'm puzzled by the seemingly slow up speed.
>
> > The one you linked to doesn't go as fast as the thinkbroadband tester.
>
> I haven't had the pleasure of finding that out. It certainly registers a 'score' of
> greater than 7000 kbps for my connection at times.

I've always judged connections by the steady 60KB/sec I got when I used
to have a 512Kb connection with Claranet many years ago. Going by that
speed I just multiply the megabits by 120 to see how fast in kilobytes
per second things should be transferring at. However, it seems kindof
flawed - maybe it doesn't take into account the greater TCP/IP wastage,
since for my 23098 sync the formula says that I should be getting 2.64
megabytes per second download speed, but the ThinkBroadband speed test
only reaches 2.4MB/sec. Eeeeeh, it's roughly right.

As for uploading, the rough formula of kbits*117/1000 gives a 288KB/sec
speed, so my real-world 270KB/sec is roughly okay.

The Excel spreadsheet I use for this kind of thing is here:
http://a.nfshost.com/kilobytes_kilob...calculator.xls

Note that I was never very good at maths so someone please correct me if
I'm completely wrong or there is a better formula that takes into
account the relative increase in overhead the faster you go.

Gizmo.

"James Egan" <jegan@jegan.com> wrote in message
news:5r80coF13heuoU1@mid.individual.net...
>
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:08:12 -0000, "Gizmo." <Nothome@right.now>
> wrote:
>
>>Jesus H Christ ... now the resident fuckwit is trying to strike up a
>>conversation with a spammer
>
> H as in, "Our Father, who art in heaven, harold be thy name"?

That's the fella )

James Egan

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:08:12 -0000, "Gizmo." <Nothome@right.now>
wrote:

>Jesus H Christ ... now the resident fuckwit is trying to strike up a
>conversation with a spammer

H as in, "Our Father, who art in heaven, harold be thy name"?


Jim

The Natural Philosopher

Eeyore wrote:
>
> Doug Spinney wrote:
>
>> But there is quite a few more out there, such as:
>>
>> http://speedcheck.ispconnect.co.uk/
>
> That's fucking ridiculous but what els would you expect from Tiscali ?
>
> " Your current bandwidth reading is: 1.14 Mbps
> which means you can download at 145.8 KB/sec. from our servers "
>
> And the bbmax test just returned a figure of nearly 7000 kbps !
>
So BBmax is lying?

> Graham
>
>
>

Kris

Eeyore writes:
> > 24 megabit connection. 2 megabytes per second down, 270 kilobytes per
> > second up. Synced at 23098 kbps down / 2468 kbps up.
>
> I'm puzzled by the seemingly slow up speed.
>
> > The one you linked to doesn't go as fast as the thinkbroadband tester.
>
> I haven't had the pleasure of finding that out. It certainly registers a 'score' of
> greater than 7000 kbps for my connection at times.

I've always judged connections by the steady 60KB/sec I got when I used
to have a 512Kb connection with Claranet many years ago. Going by that
speed I just multiply the megabits by 120 to see how fast in kilobytes
per second things should be transferring at. However, it seems kindof
flawed - maybe it doesn't take into account the greater TCP/IP wastage,
since for my 23098 sync the formula says that I should be getting 2.64
megabytes per second download speed, but the ThinkBroadband speed test
only reaches 2.4MB/sec. Eeeeeh, it's roughly right.

As for uploading, the rough formula of kbits*117/1000 gives a 288KB/sec
speed, so my real-world 270KB/sec is roughly okay.

The Excel spreadsheet I use for this kind of thing is here:
http://a.nfshost.com/kilobytes_kilob...calculator.xls

Note that I was never very good at maths so someone please correct me if
I'm completely wrong or there is a better formula that takes into
account the relative increase in overhead the faster you go.

Gizmo.

"James Egan" <jegan@jegan.com> wrote in message
news:5r80coF13heuoU1@mid.individual.net...
>
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:08:12 -0000, "Gizmo." <Nothome@right.now>
> wrote:
>
>>Jesus H Christ ... now the resident fuckwit is trying to strike up a
>>conversation with a spammer
>
> H as in, "Our Father, who art in heaven, harold be thy name"?

That's the fella )

Abo

Daniel.Mason@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a good broadband speed checker - i think some of them
> on the web are a little biast - or at least seem to be.

http://www.dslzoneuk.net/

--
Abo