Apparently, while I slept..........

........i was visited by the bandwidth fairy. I happened to run a test and we have another 2mb in DL speed, and another 120K UL.

Yes, your ISP waved it's magic wand over your connection and---walla, faster connection speeds. Watch your next bill. You could see a jump there also. :)

Could have been a spike, check it again tommorrow. BJ

Competition for DSL connections is heating up. My ISP doubled my speed within the exiisting contract even though at the moment there is no alternative ISP in my area. Looking towards the future.

Well since there is no competition in this area .... I doubt I will ever see a boost :D

Mine has alledgedly gone to 4mb down, and 768k up....i'm yet to notice it in downloads though.


Liam

In my experience, once you get past about 2-4 Mbps you'll find most web sites themselves being the limiting factor. See if your ISP has a large file you can download, or else try a handful of downloads at once and see where you get.

Thanks T, you've got a point, i suppose the time of day would be a factor too, i'll have to test things, as my (Next-Door) neighbour has the same ISP, but the more expensive 10mb, and he is further away from the exchange, but more often than not gets that speed, he uses Torrents for World Of Warcraft large downloads, which may help, but for direct download through Firefox, he still maintains high speeds.


Liam

Tut is correct. Going from 5 to 7 and change hasn't made a perceivable difference in page load speed. There are 2 factors as he says, your DL speed, and the server's UL.

having had 100mb DL speed i can defiantly back that up. rarely did i notice the difference from the 10mb i was on before. only time was when using sites with very good servers such as M$ and dedicated file hosting like rapidshare and megaupload.

When my cable connection was AT&T....those people capped my download transfer rate at 172 KB/sec and upload at 14 KB/sec.... :mad:

When Comcast took over....they realized that Verizon DSL was making strides in the area and lifted the downlstream cap. The upload cap remains (ostensibly to stop people running server apps).

Currently I can download files at over 500 KB/sec (or about 4 Mbps).

I agree with Tuttle...I am finding that the bottleneck is no longer on my side....but out there.....

I do notice a big difference between say 3mb and 4 or 5, but up beyond 5 I don't see much difference.