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04/04/2004 01:11:56 PM · #1 |
I currently connect with a 500k DSL connection and was thinking of upgrading to 1mb. Its £13/month more and I was wondering if anybody here has moved from 500 to 1mb? A guy at work has just done it but say's its nowhere near twice as fast. I'm with a pretty popular provider and was wondering if I'd be better off going from a 50:1 to 20:1 contention ratio. I'm almost at the BT limit for ADSL in terms of distance from the exchange.
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04/04/2004 01:16:16 PM · #2 |
| Find out which direction they are offering that speed for. The "A" in ADSL is for asynchonous -- different speeds downloading and uploading, with the download speed usually faster. If your goal is to upload printable images faster, you mainly need to evaluate the gain in upstream speed, which is probably not double what you have now. |
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04/04/2004 04:04:19 PM · #3 |
I am getting between 2.0mbits/sec to 3.3mbits /sec (depending on which speed test site) on my comcast cable set up. They recently doubled the speed. Works for me
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04/04/2004 04:09:27 PM · #4 |
I originally had 512k down /128k up and upgraded to 1.5M down / 384k up and am extremely happy with the performance increase. Especially for uploading files.
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04/04/2004 05:36:52 PM · #5 |
I have comcast cable modem. the say i have a 3mb connection (downstream to me). One site says 945kps, another 2,344kps and another at 3,300kps. (a 56k modem is 53kps)
Upload is supposedly 10% of the DL speed.
They doubled my speed form 1.5 to 3.0 a while back, and i noticed no difference. a friend is closer to th ecity than me (i am kinda rural) and he has the same service, similar hardware, and his connection seems faster, always has (past 3.5 years anyway).
I would suspect that the diff from 500k to 1mb would be noticeable. As to putting a price on it..that is trickier. My old laptop is not too slow, if that is all i use for 2 weeks strait, but going back to my big box makes the old lappy seem soooo slow as to be unusable. It is what you are used to. |
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04/04/2004 05:58:48 PM · #6 |
I'm on a 3MB high speed connection from Sympatico.ca... my download is 2519kbps and upload is 670kbps consistently. Going thru all the challenge entries is a breeze so I have more time to look at the photos (and make comments) than waiting for them to download.
Most people on high speed broadband almost never get their provider's advertised speed due to a lot of factors (wiring, internet traffic, equipment, system settings, etc) but there are ways to get optimum speed once you've identified what prevents you from getting speed close to what your provider advertizes.
DSLReports.com specializes in broadband and you can use their tools to check your speed and tweak your system to get max speed that your computer is capable from your provider.
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04/04/2004 06:12:07 PM · #7 |
I'm currently on a 1mb ADSL, costing me £40/month at 50:1 contention, with Nildram, who are reasonably competitively priced. If you want to go to a 20:1 contention, you're looking at going to £60/month, but if your exchange isn't congested then it shouldn't be an issue (unless your ISP has a saturated backbone network, which some of the cheaper ISPs are getting to). If you're in London, it's worth checking out Bulldog, who do variable rate DSL packages, dependent on time of day etc, using their own LLU access rather than BT.
The jump from 512k to 1mb is noticable if you're a reasonably heavy user - downloads will max out at 110-120k/sec instead of the normal 55-60k/sec, and some websites will load noticeable faster too. However, the limiting factor for many websites is the speed of the connection their server is on as much as your own link, so you will find some sites where there's no difference at all.
Also, check out ADSLGuide, a very good source of ADSL ISP reviews - the notice boards are always worth reading to get an impression of the service the ISP provides, and the speed tests highlight the ISPs with the fastest networks.
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Oh yeah, I used to work for a couple of ISPs ;o)
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04/04/2004 09:01:33 PM · #8 |
Thanks for all the info folks, I'm with plusnet (force9) and with my 500k account I get a free domain and hosting for 3 domains for £1/month. I'll probs stick with them (£33/m for 1mb) mainly because I can't be bothered moving my sites (again).
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04/04/2004 11:47:21 PM · #9 |
karmat, the dialup user, can only dream
Message edited by author 2004-04-04 23:49:24. |
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04/05/2004 01:20:08 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Find out which direction they are offering that speed for. The "A" in ADSL is for asynchonous -- different speeds downloading and uploading, with the download speed usually faster. If your goal is to upload printable images faster, you mainly need to evaluate the gain in upstream speed, which is probably not double what you have now. |
Right principle, however the 'A' stands for asymmetric. Almost all net connections are asynchronous, otherwise you wouldn't be able to download a page at the same time as send an image request, etc.. |
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04/05/2004 02:01:22 AM · #11 |
Well they must have had the advertising wrong around here ... although they probably spelled it right ... :(
Thanks for the clarification. |
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