I generally try downloading 1080p trailers from the Apple website when I want to do that, that is generally a very fast mirror. Microsofts can be too, try downloading SP1 for Windows 2003 or something

U can try this and see how well u connect to sweden.

NOT to use on WLAN though.

http://www.tptest.se/lista_artiklar.asp?lngCategoryId=1307

or this in english but the same I belive.

http://tptest.sourceforge.net/about.php

http://tptest.sourceforge.net/download.php

Cheers for them guys

The reason for doing it is ive recently just got upto 8meg broadband with Toucan for £15 a month.......now I know its cheap so arent expecting that much from it. My router is connected at 8.2meg, so I thought id get fair fast downloads.........but for example, from the Microsoft website I get around 120KB/sec which is more like 1meg to be honest. Im still on this give it 10 days to settle and get the best line speed thing which ive read about. But at the moment im pretty disappointed with the speeds.

Cheers for them guys

The reason for doing it is ive recently just got upto 8meg broadband with Toucan for £15 a month.......now I know its cheap so arent expecting that much from it. My router is connected at 8.2meg, so I thought id get fair fast downloads.........but for example, from the Microsoft website I get around 120KB/sec which is more like 1meg to be honest. Im still on this give it 10 days to settle and get the best line speed thing which ive read about. But at the moment im pretty disappointed with the speeds.

Try downloading several big files at once and see if it improves, sometimes when you are downloading a single file the server may limit your speed, could also be your provider throttling back too

Wouldnt trust it but you can only give them a bit of time just in case. Unfortunately you arent assigned an exclusive 8mbit pipe you have to share.

That chocky orange isnt terrys and Im not sharing either!

Im supposed to have up to 8 meg broadband from talktalk but its never connected at more than two. Its rock solid at that though and still cheaper than pipex.

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I havent found anyone cheaper with unlimted downloads - £9 a month for unlimited speed, unlimited download

I get 6 Mbps+ on pipex ADSL MAX

Alot of adsl providers are switching their products from "8meg" to "up to 8meg", and severa; state that you cant expect more than 2meg at peak times.

Plus.net are really taking the piss with this lately, using "traffic shaping" to limit ftp and p2p to 2kbps at peak times, which is like 4pm til 3am in reality.


Anyway, to max out ya connection get DAP or sommink and use it to do 3 or 4 dls at the same time. Dont rely on speedtests.



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