Quote from: MaldonadoBleh, gay, BTWholesale will only let me run tests on lines tagged by the ISP i work for.

Thats normal, they say its for data protection.  Ive lost access on all my ADSL toolkit as well.  

Could be worth running a quiet line test?  Provided there is a hardwired phone available?

Quote from: Beaker

Quote from: MaldonadoBleh, gay, BTWholesale will only let me run tests on lines tagged by the ISP i work for.

Thats normal, they say its for data protection.  Ive lost access on all my ADSL toolkit as well.  

Could be worth running a quiet line test?  Provided there is a hardwired phone available?

How do I do that?  Nulldram have run line tests as have BT.

Quote from: Eagle

Quote from: Beaker

Quote from: MaldonadoBleh, gay, BTWholesale will only let me run tests on lines tagged by the ISP i work for.

Thats normal, they say its for data protection.  Ive lost access on all my ADSL toolkit as well.  

Could be worth running a quiet line test?  Provided there is a hardwired phone available?

How do I do that?  Nulldram have run line tests as have BT.

if its a BT line you need to dial a number using a hardwired phone.  

linky :: http://www.the-scream.co.uk/forums/t181.html

THe link explains it better than I can.  

Right, ignore everything said in this thread about:

MTU
IPv4/6
DNS

Now that the chafe has blown away, run the following tests:

(1) C+P your SnR and sync speed from your router
(2) http://www.speedtester.bt.com/ late at night (midnight onwards)
(3) http://www.speedtest.net/ (as above)
(4) Torrent a linux ISO FIRST on an encrypted connection on a random port, then unencrypted (same port is fine if you do it in this order)

The results of this will give information about:
Contention
Throttling
Theoretical throughput
Exchange profiling
Crappy ISP throughput

In the meantime, please ignore everyone who (as well intentioned as their input might be) dont know what theyre talking about.

[Edit: going back to your (un-answered) question about why youve got your OK upload, but crap download, its because the ADSL Max system proportions off 448kbps of upstream bandwidth before it allocates whatevers left to your download. This means that if you sync at anything less than about 900kbps, youll get a higher upload than download. ]

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Quote from: Maldonado(1) C+P your SnR and sync speed from your router

Wheres that?

Quote(2) http://www.speedtester.bt.com/ late at night (midnight onwards)
(3) http://www.speedtest.net/ (as above)

Will do.

Quote(4) Torrent a linux ISO FIRST on an encrypted connection on a random port, then unencrypted (same port is fine if you do it in this order)

Ports?  Encrypted? Random?... oh my!

How do I do that?

 8-)

Which torrent program are you using?

uTorrent and Az are very easy to configure for encrypted, pretty much clicking a check box. (Look in the config/options section).

Quote from: Eagle

Quote from: Maldonado(1) C+P your SnR and sync speed from your router

Wheres that?

Quote(2) http://www.speedtester.bt.com/ late at night (midnight onwards)
(3) http://www.speedtest.net/ (as above)

Will do.

Quote(4) Torrent a linux ISO FIRST on an encrypted connection on a random port, then unencrypted (same port is fine if you do it in this order)

Ports?  Encrypted? Random?... oh my!

How do I do that?

 8-)

Pics from uTorrent 1.7.7, by far the best torrent client around.

(1) Router stats...



(2) Random port...



(3) Encrypted...



(4) Un-encrypted...

Right, lets get the easy one out the way...

What should I be looking for with the Torrent?  Download speed vs peers?

The more peers, the greater the speed should be.

E.g. A brand new episode of Lost comes out, wait 6 hours after its been released on the big torrent sites and it should pretty much max out your connection because there are so many people seeding.

Right, err...

Encrypted - Seeds 138 (883) Peers 7 (83) Between 350 and 407.4kb/s
Unencrypted - Seeds 135 (892) Peers 5/85 Between 337 and 400 kb/s

 :?

www.kbps.co.uk shows avg of 210 kb/s right after above tests

00:35hrs:




02:05hrs BST (01:05hrs):





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Ok, done.

407.4kb/s is nothing to be sneezed at.

If you can get that at 9pm on a Friday night, really dont complain. If, however thats what you get at 2am, kick up some sh*t.

Check my Pimp my internet thread. Im looking to sort a few things out after reading the article linked.

However, the chaps who know what theyre talking about will be along soon.

Quite happy with that speed for the rare occasions I use torrents - but 15kbps and often lower for just browsing is taking the piss.  Im supposed to have a 4Mb connection....

Why is is that high for torrents and not browsing?
 

What should my LAN settings be?  At the mo I have nothing checked in IE> Tools> Internet options> Connections> LAN Settings.

Btw, 5am and Ive now got 2.8Mbps+.  Ill bet it wont be that way during the day though...

This is Tiscali, isnt it?.