...what would be the speed of my broad band if the download speed is 700kbps.(how it is calculated)
I m using talk talk adsl broadband and only 400 meters away from exchange and according to talk talk because I m very close the expcted speed is 7.5 MB(they offer upto 8MB)
I tried different known web sites but all are giving differrent figures and even same speedometer giving quite differrent figures at the same time.
Serious aqnswers please ans Thanks a lot in advance
2007-03-21 08:09:53 · 10 answers · asked by auzair19 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
First, you might want to compare with the speed tests from other users of TalkTalk on either ThinkBroadband or DSL Zone (see links) and there's a discussion area on ThinkBroadband so you can see the comments / problems reported by users.
Second, there may be some 'rounding down' of speeds depending on the equipment / connection (as far as I know, TalkTalk is using BT DSLAMs at the exchanges at present, and BT sets the speed for data in 500 kbps steps. Also, BT determines the speed based on the best connection speed over a number of days, so if you get a bad connection (because of noise) your speed may be restricted to a lower level for two or three days
2007-03-27 13:22:08 · answer #1 · answered by Peter M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to understand the two most common units used in measuring broadband speeds.
A bit is the smallest unit of digital data possible, and is written as a lowercase b. A byte is 8 bits, and is written as an uppercase B.
Kilo- means thousand, and is written as a lowercase k. Mega- means million, and is written as an uppercase M.
'Thousand' and 'million' are actually not quite correct, but the explanation is too complicated for now. As rough figures, they work fine.
1MBps (the 'ps' part is sometimes omitted) is actually equal to 8192kbps.
Therefore, 700kbps means 700 kilobits per second, which is roughly 0.68MBps. That is nowhere near the expected speed of 7.5MBps, so something is clearly amiss. I'm pretty sure that they can do a simple check on your line if you phone them.
If you are getting wildly varying speeds from the same test, chances are something on your computer is hogging the bandwidth. Make sure everything is closed except for the window running the test.
2007-03-21 08:28:13 · answer #2 · answered by iMacThere4iAm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.speedtest.net is a website that will calculate download and upload speeds. Very easy to use, easy to read results. Also tracks tests and calculates average upload/download speeds. I use it all the time.
To sum up the answer to the question...... several factors go into the speed of your connection. The computer has a small effect on the speed for some reason. The actual cable between your modem and computer is another factor. If it is bad or is old you will get slower speeds. The type of modem being used is another. The traffic on the network is one of the biggest factors. If you had AOL when it was popular, you knew to stay off on peak hours because congestion to their servers was aweful and the speed that you got was more of a snail pace then anything.
One more thing, those numbers the ISP gives you are in "optimum conditions" and will very greatly from day to day.
2007-03-21 16:58:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When your broadband provider tells you "this is the speed of throughput" they are telling you the theoretical maximum possible speed. You will never reach that speed, but you can get infinitely close. Some of the overhead will be lost by latency (typically a few nanoseconds), other loss will occur because of routing. Sometimes your data may end up in a queue somewhere and it has to wait to be forwarded (several nanoseconds to several milliseconds). The actual speed depends on many conditions, but the best way to test is to choose a site and run a bandwidth test. http://www.toast.net is a pretty good site.
2007-03-21 08:16:08 · answer #4 · answered by Pfo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To get the most accurate test, you need to test your speed from a server located in your country for starters.....If you try to run a test from a US server, and your in the UK, you would get horrible results.....
You can also visit the same site and get different results each time you run the test.....This is because of the amount of people that are on the internet at the time can affect your internet speed. That or the site your running the test from could be experiencing a high volume of traffic....To get a more accurate result you should run the test a few times.....and consider the time of day, if its a weekend, theres likely to be way more people online, again, causing you to get a lower rating in speed.....
Finally, dont expect your internet speed to be exactly what talk talk says it will, if your reaching 82 percent of your rated speed, your doing just fine.....
2007-03-21 08:25:08 · answer #5 · answered by Vincent 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As well as the previous answer, the speed you are getting also has to do with the source of the download. They may have many connections so have to share their bandwidth between all of you.
To get a true speed for your connection use one of the test sites, an example is given below.
2007-03-21 08:20:46 · answer #6 · answered by Bob M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would wait until after 28 of this month as they are upgrading in some areas, i would imagine this means an increase in speed ,if your unhappy you could increase by going to onspeed.com .
your speed is probably about 2.2 mbps
2007-03-21 08:54:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can check broadband speed through this websites
http://www.dslreports.com/stest
2007-03-28 21:45:28 · answer #8 · answered by ajaj_desai 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check this one
http://broadband-speed-test.tamar-solutions.qarchive.org/
2007-03-28 00:24:00 · answer #9 · answered by Bhaskar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use the this link
http://www.2wire.com/bandwidth/initialmeter.php
2007-03-29 01:29:00 · answer #10 · answered by beatiful mind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋