orange speeds

please don't get too technical with me am just starting out.am on orange unlimited(completley dif story) was told my line was capeable of recieving speeds of upto 8mg by orange,virgin and tiscali. just done 1st line speed test got these results
down speed 4.4 mbps
up speed 0.4 mbps
am i right in thinking this is not as good as they promised. i understand i need to do more tests at dif times of the day for true picture.
can the pc you use affect your line speed(i did warn u i'm a novice)

Most say that they can provide 'up to 8 meg', but most of the time thats not what you get, every check I do says the same and all I can get is 2.5mb.

4.4mb is good, and is probably the highest your line can support.

Go to www.samknows.com, click on 'Availability Checker' and enter your Telephone Number and PostCode. Then click on BT ADSL and see what speed it says your line can support.

Also someone told me on here the highest reading possible you will get from speed testing sites is about 6.7mb even if everything is perfect (i.e next door to exhange, no line problems).

You are getting what they all told you "up to 8Mb".

i.e. speeds between 0 and 8Mb. It's part of the marketing speak.

Actually 4.4Mb is probably better than average across the UK as a whole so don't be too depressed.

Thats what I meant to say.

My line can only support 2-2.5mb at the moment, but with the problems at Orange, i'm only get around 0.3-0.9mb depending on the time of day.

Since the beginning of April I don't think i've recorded a speed over 1mb!!!

I don't know what Orange have done around my way but

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/results.php?t=1180466150&v=1458726

This is peak time and speeds seems largely uneffected for me now, this has been the case for 7-10 days now, it was never even this good before we had those problems at peak time a couple of weeks back.

Hopefully yours will pick up.

Edited by notawhizzkid (Tue 29-May-07 20:20:40)

OH MY GOD!!

This is the BEST speed test i've had in the past month, and its still pretty bad for a 2.5mb connection:

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/results.php?t=1180469731&v=1459463

Edit: Just ran a few more tests and got a few speeds over 1meg, all whilst I was on the phone to Orange - spooky

Apparently, according to Livebox Technical Support, there is a known network issue that they are currenlty fixing and hope to have it fixed as soon as possible, but there is no date set for its completion!

What annoys me is that their Broadband Status page on the Orange Help site does not report any problem!

Edited by deleted (Tue 29-May-07 21:23:15)

Well that's just not true.

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/results.php?t=1180469989&v=1459517

Don't know what else to say.

Wish I had speeds like that!!! Damn you!!

You know what... I forgot I was watching Joost alt+tabed, sorry but you should stick about 120Kbp/s on there :P