T1 Speedtest

Hi guys, always wondered if anyone had any speedtest results of a T1 connection, out of interest I just want to see how it compares to broadband/fibre these days

We don't have T1 lines in the UK (~1.5Mbit/s). Our equivalent is an E1 (2 Mbit/s).
Less with overheads. Slow by superfast standards

Has E1 been used as connections in offices in the UK or is it just backhaul for mobile sites?

I had a few mates who had T1 about 15 years ago in Sweden, never heard of the since then.

E1 lines are used for numerous connections from office point to point , ISDN 30, business VOIP , mobile base station backhaul and more besides. Their use is being overtaken by cheaper xdsl services or faster Ethernet circuits

that's cool, thanks for answering, just saw an article last night and made me wonder what things used to use it that's all

Cheers for replying though

I used to have an E1 to my desk when I worked for an ISP for test purposes back in 1998. Yes, they existed but are now effectively obsolete due to faster technology being available at lower prices. You do get higher guaranteed availability and quicker fixes with a leased line than you do with DSL services.

Edited by caffn8me (Tue 05-Jul-16 18:51:29)

My Broadband is now slightly faster than a E1 line.

It was around 1.6 - 1.9 Mbps, now around 4.3 Mbps.

Happy and sad at the same time!!!

Only faster on download. I bet you're way slower on upload as an E1 is a symmetrical service.

Don't rub it in

Yeah, currently 0.9 Mbps up

In my first job, I was developing software for driving ISDN 30B+D trunks on E1, while at home I could only run a modem at 1200/75 or 300/300. 2Mbps was beyond a dream. The peak of luxury.

Remarkable what we can achieve now - in both the leased lines and at home.

I agree that fibre has provided us with faster connections, but like some replies reflect, that is not always the case.
T1 was slow [by todays standards] but it was more consistent as there was less users on the network and less congestion.
I have BT Infinity [80/20], but a lot of the country is still using the old ADSL lines.

Back in 2000, one of my colleagues had one of our 64k leased lines at home. He also managed to get on Demon's ADSL trial - which was, in terms of sync speed, much faster (2Mbps down and 256kbps up). Demon had a few issues but once he was connected, he felt that the leased line service (which had uncontended bandwidth) was still better than the Demon service.

Things have certainly come a long way since then - at least for most of us.

My current VDSL2 connection does drop out every few weeks. That's something that never happened when I had a leased line. Except when some BT engineer managed to sever the cables accidentally

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

In my first job, I was developing software for driving ISDN 30B+D trunks on E1

Did you ever use Catapult test equipment?

In reply to a post by caffn8me:

Back in 2000, one of my colleagues had one of our 64k leased lines at home. He also managed to get on Demon's ADSL trial - which was, in terms of sync speed, much faster (2Mbps down and 256kbps up). Demon had a few issues but once he was connected, he felt that the leased line service (which had uncontended bandwidth) was still better than the Demon service.

Things have certainly come a long way since then - at least for most of us.

My current VDSL2 connection does drop out every few weeks. That's something that never happened when I had a leased line. Except when some BT engineer managed to sever the cables accidentally

T1 to me is a real blast from the past, as I am 80 next year and have been building PC`s and other electronic equipment since the early 1970`s.
Still build and test them but mainly to keep my brain active, and keep up with modern tech.

In reply to a post by caffn8me:

Did you ever use Catapult test equipment?

I don't recognise the name.

TBH, I don't recall exactly what we used back that far, but I suspect they were Tektronix boxes. Guarded jealously by the hardware engineers...