erm - NTL - WTH?

[Tom]

I'm downloading openoffice via bittorrent, and the speed is about 400Kb/s. Thats on a 2Mb connection.

Its not just BT either, I did a test on ADSLguide and it came to:

Your Connection

Speed Test Results
Downstream 3,830.1 Kbps ( = 3.7 Mbps )
Upstream 373.0 Kbps ( = 0.4 Mbps )

So I take it that NTL have been twiddling with things?

 

[Will]

Twiddle.

 

[Tom]

Whoo hoo

 

[tris-]

im suppose to be on 10mbit.

the most i can get from a speed test is 4 mbit :/

 

[throdgrain]

Im supposed to be on 8mb, best I can get on a speed thing is 3.5.

 

[DaGaffer]

Im supposed to be on 8mb, best I can get on a speed thing is 3.5.

Ditto.

 

[Mazling]

Adslguide is regularly useless.

 

[Earl]

Use a 'linux distro' to test your speed

 

[Agrigo]

Would love to rejoice , however they seem to have stabbed my connection to get yours up ^^

Time to get the complaning shoes on !

 

[Raven]

they upgraded mine to 10mb without telling me back in november/december, though they stuck a 75 gig cap on it (also without telling me) apparently the cap will be removed in the near future.

 

[rynnor]

I get emails telling me they've upped the megs of my connection from time to time but the actual connection is getting progressively worse - at times its impossible to surf the web! I think they have just given up on contention ratios - about 1000 people are probably sharing my connection ;P

I'm now looking for a new broadband supplier - it comes to something when my old 600k blueyonder connection was miles better than my flashy X meg NTL connection!