Mbs is a measure of the life expectancy of a bit

Yes, you are correct and that was the point I tried (badly) to make, that XP apparently has issues so your speed measured by the speedtesters will be possibly be limited by your (old) system.
But as clearly mentioned in other posts it does not affect the FTTC delivered.

Regarding Wireless, I had checked channels and all networks found were 1 or 10 so mine was set at 5.

Interesting I did some test last night with only one laptop at a time being used and each achieved around 23Mbps.

This morning I did a wired connection test and achieved 36199 Kbps dn and 1665 Kbps up, so again this points to a wireless issue.

Thanks for you comments

Yes I'm on 40Mbps connection.

I just did some tests with the network cable to the router and get 36199 Kbps and 1665 Kbps so guess my 24Mbps Wireless performance is a wireless issue.

Thanks for your comments.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/1...

I originally missed the point about wireless - using a SmartPhone at the time.

So, sort out a new wireless card for the PC or use it wired! Those speeds are what I would expect to see.

Also, if you use DrTCP you can set different MTUs for wired and wireless to optimise both.

On a BT provided VDSL for a wired connection MTU should be set to 1492 and maybe 1470-1478 for wireless although some experimentation is needed to find the best.

Edited by MHC (Wed 27-Jun-12 10:21:34)