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My council (East Sussex) has a website encouraging people to register their interest for "superfast broadband". Their speed test page always quotes my speed at around 7 meg, whereas speedtest.net quotes my speed at around 15.5 meg (the correct figure).
Can someone check it and see if they can get a figure over 7 meg please?
http://www.goesussex.co.uk/broadband-speed-test
Oliver.
Edited by Oliver341 (Sat 25-May-13 16:22:35)
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Hi,
Just over the border in West Sussex on a Be LLU product. Router synced at just over 9Mbps down / 1.1Mbps up.
The East Sussex speedtest gave me 6.53Mbps down / 0.9Mbps up.
The speedtest.net gave me 8.2Mbps down / 0.98Mbps up.
Regards,
Stuart
Current ISP: Xilo (via Be LLU)
Previous ISP: Zen (for 9 years).
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Thanks. My tests on that site have risen to 9 meg but are still well short of the 15.5 meg I am really getting.
Oliver.
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Register (or login) on our website and you will not see this ad.
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I'm on fibre in Bexhill.
My SamKnows monitor shows a consistent 52/53 down and 12/13 up.
The E Sussex test gives 21 down and 8 up.
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5.15 Down & 8.10 Up followed by 3.95/8.55, 6.29/8.85 & 6.67/8.10 - yes, down was always lower than up.
With an 80/20 service giving me 60/18 those results are way out. Maybe Mr S should be selling the TBB service to them.
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I would take no notice of that East Sussex County Council speed test website, it�s a load of rubbish.
My ADSL2+ broadband connection test results�
East Sussex County Council Your results
Download speed
1.83 Mbps
Upload speed
0.93 Mbps
http://www.goesussex.co.uk/
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BT Wholesale Broadband Performance Test
Broadband Speed Test Results
Download Speed1(Mbps): 11.81
Upload Speed (Mbps): 1.07
Ping Latency (ms): 41.63
http://speedtest.btwholesale.com/
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I think we can safely say the East Sussex CC speed test page is not fit for purpose. However, maybe it should be given that they are using it as an indicator to encourage people to register for higher speeds.
Oliver.
Edited by Oliver341 (Sat 25-May-13 16:22:50)
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Gave me 7.5 meg download, I get 64 to 66 meg. Borked.
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As it runs on ios it is probably a html5/javascript mashup.
Chances are running on a server with limited capacity or needs some work to scale code to faster speeds.
Wonder what it cost East Sussex?
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The author of the above post is a thinkbroadband staff member. It may not constitute an official statement on behalf of thinkbroadband.
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Wonder what it cost East Sussex?
At least of some of it's reputation ?
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if it's used to guide public investment, ie the spending of other people's money, then it should be fit for purpose.
Even my ADSL connection at ~6M is clocked at half to 2/3 its actual speed.
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Phil
MaxDSL - goes as fast as it can and doesn't read the line checker first.
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... you see and hear about all these people that illegally download films, music et al, and yet all ISP's advertise is how fast you can do it (BT and Virgin the main culprits)?
Seems illogical to me, it's like they encourage people to do it.
Nick
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Which isp advertises how fast you can diwnload material illegally?
Sky go, lovefil, netflix, iplayer etc are proving just as popular or more so than p2p and newsgroups
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Look at that speed test page. It just quotes how fast you can download music albums, videos etc. It doesn't say do it legally.
Nick
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And it doesn't say you should do it illegally.
Should no-one talk about cars, as some people steal them?
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That is a silly statement - cars ore one-off, digit content can be copied, hence the whole illegal downloading thing.
Nick
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In my opinion it is a silly thing to complain about a council saying what you can do faster with an internet connection.
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The author of the above post is a thinkbroadband staff member. It may not constitute an official statement on behalf of thinkbroadband.
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maybe in your head "Download" automatically means piracy ?
but to many it doesn't - like a council person perhaps.
Is the Mary Portas high street initiative promoting shoplifting ?
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MaxDSL - goes as fast as it can and doesn't read the line checker first.
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I suppose you have a point - most people haven't a clue what speed they have (or what it means), so putting it in a 'general usage' type way dumbs it down for them to understand.
Oh well, onward to the intelligent man.
Nick
EDIT: BTW, I wasn't complaining, just making a point
Edited by deleted (Sun 26-May-13 16:28:25)
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Q: What is the cheapest I can buy an Apple iMac for?
A: Nothing as you can steal it.
Statements made in public are asumed to be within a legal framework.
1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up => 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB => 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB => 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU => 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU => 2011: Orange 20 Meg WBC - BQM
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Uh uh  .
1p
If you nick it then you didn't buy it. Maybe "get" would have been a better word,but what about if someone gives you one.
Of course, if you bought one for 1p that could be called "a steal".
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Connection - Plusnet UnLim Fibre (FTTC). Sync ~ 54.2/15.2Mbps @ 600m. - BQM
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