Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Technical - Help or Info - NON Motorcycle > Broadband Speed question, advise required again.

[ali]

I'm with Eclipse (who've gone downhill massively) but I hear lots of good things about Zen Internet. They also get top marks on the adslguide site for most things. 20gb/month for £25 or 40Gb for £35. Thinking of moving there in the near future....

[andys 900ss]

Hi Guys, I just done a test and I'm getting on average 270kbs on a Tiscali 2MB connection?

Whats the best plan of action? Ditch Tiscali (have our own domain anyway) and go for something like NTL (as we have cable right outside) or upgrade / try another BT line provider??

Andy

[ariel]

I have been with NTL for some time now and they seem to be OK

[NBs996]

Something to realise (if you don't already - I didn't!) that these companies advertising broadband speeds are a little sly... there's a difference between "B" and "b"!

The adverts talk about megabits, whereas in reality we refer to file sizes in megabytes. The difference is there are 8 bits in a byte, so 1Mb/s = 125kB/s. So to be reading 270kB/s from a 2Mb connection is pretty good.