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Originally Posted by bbc.co.uk
Broadband speeds in the UK are much slower than advertised by internet service providers, a study by Computeractive magazine has found.
Some 3,000 readers took part in speed tests and 62% found they routinely got less than half of the top speed advertised by their provider.


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Which has a link to an online pertition at downing street.
And the tool for checking your band width speed.

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Dam you have to register for the Speed tester tool frown

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About time they got this under control.

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Mines faster then advertised. Lol. But to be fair, thats why they say "upto" 8Mbps, they also clearly state that the speed is dependent upon your line, distance from the exchange etc...

Its just the bloody government wanting to waste money as usual, instead of going after the real criminals in consumer standards; ie TALKTALK lol.

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This is an interesting read Solve disputes with your ISP

I think i'm getting what i should with virgin media.

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can someone point me in the direction of a good bband speed test please

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http://www.xcellweb.net/downloads/

Download any of the large files on there, ive known people to pull 20Mbps from it no problem, it maxes my 8Mbps connection. Give the speed a minute or so to settle and it will give you a good indication of your speed.

The "speed tests" you find online are very rarely accurate, there servers cant usually provde enough bandwidth.

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I can download some of them files at about 700k/sec


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What speed is your connection sposed to be matey?

Sounds pretty good if its 8Mbps.

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i get around 200kbps which for 2mbs connection sucks.. VM suck 100%


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