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[Martin_1962]

64kbps downstream
1600kbps upstream

Normally 400 or so and 2880

India Telecom help are putting it onto an engineer they said (I think)

[alunonhisown]

BT Broadband as with other service providers slow the service down between 6pm and midnight, or there would not be enough bandwidth to go around.
Try a speedtest at
http://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2

[STMO999]

373 and 4216.

[sexydaz]

BT Broadband as with other service providers slow the service down between 6pm and midnight, or there would not be enough bandwidth to go around.
Try a speedtest at
http://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2

dont work

[TheBoy]

BT Broadband as with other service providers slow the service down between 6pm and midnight, or there would not be enough bandwidth to go around.
Try a speedtest at
http://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2

Not entirely correct

Some ISPs do nothing - Zen Internet being a prime example. You get whatever the product can deliver (if thats a contended service, obviously subject to contention).

Some ISPs do mild shaping - BT are an example, usually slowing down non web traffic, but otherwise, full capabilities of the product.

Some, Plusnet being the first to really use it hard, shape some of their products to make it almost unusable.

Wholesale charging structures, introduced to cut down the unsustainable p2p/nntp traffic at a wholesale level, have meant some of the oversubscribed ISPs have to shape heavier than others.


Most DSL and all cable services are contended, and if you have a load of heavy users shared with you, you may suffer whatever you have.

[TheBoy]

Know where your Home Gateway is?  If its Brum, I'm in that room on Friday, I could give it a good kicking if that helps (it won't, but would make me feel better!)

[Pitchfork]

Plusnet at 19:03
2790 Kbps download
681 upload
Is that good?

[TheBoy]

Plusnet at 19:03
2790 Kbps download
681 upload
Is that good?

meaningless

[Pitchfork]

please elucidate

[TheBoy]

please elucidate

Most ISPs shape their traffic to give artificially high speedtests, which don't match reality.

Plusnet are rumoured to be particularly bad for this.

Additionally, most of the speedtest sites will be affected by server load or, more likely, transit capacity/latency.


So all speedtests via the ISP are meaningless.

[Pitchfork]

please elucidate

Most ISPs shape their traffic to give artificially high speedtests, which don't match reality.

Plusnet are rumoured to be particularly bad for this.


So all speedtests via the ISP are meaningless.

This is what I used
www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk

[Mr Skrunts]

BT Broadband as with other service providers slow the service down between 6pm and midnight, or there would not be enough bandwidth to go around.
Try a speedtest at
http://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2

If I use that site I get the following.(Something called Shields Up)

Port Authority Edition – Internet Vulnerability Profiling
by Steve Gibson,  Gibson Research Corporation.

Browser Reload Suppressed

For your security, your web browser's "reload"
function has been temporarily disabled

Allowing a web browser to "reload" a page which has already been sent to you creates a "security hole" that would allow someone using your computer at any later time to attain potentially private and personal information.

To safeguard your privacy we have disabled the browser's "reload" or "refresh" facility while you are in sensitive areas of our web site. Reloading pages will function normally once you have left this area . . . but until then please refrain from "reloading" pages.

You may press your browser's  [BACK]  button now to return to the page prior to the one you were just viewing.

Thanks very much for your interest and patronage.

[/b]

[sexydaz]

BT Broadband as with other service providers slow the service down between 6pm and midnight, or there would not be enough bandwidth to go around.
Try a speedtest at
http://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2

If I use that site I get the following.(Something called Shields Up)

Port Authority Edition – Internet Vulnerability Profiling
by Steve Gibson,  Gibson Research Corporation.

Browser Reload Suppressed

For your security, your web browser's "reload"
function has been temporarily disabled

Allowing a web browser to "reload" a page which has already been sent to you creates a "security hole" that would allow someone using your computer at any later time to attain potentially private and personal information.

To safeguard your privacy we have disabled the browser's "reload" or "refresh" facility while you are in sensitive areas of our web site. Reloading pages will function normally once you have left this area . . . but until then please refrain from "reloading" pages.

You may press your browser's  [BACK]  button now to return to the page prior to the one you were just viewing.

Thanks very much for your interest and patronage.

[/b]

same here

[jereboam]

BT Broadband as with other service providers slow the service down between 6pm and midnight, or there would not be enough bandwidth to go around.
Try a speedtest at
http://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2

If I use that site I get the following.(Something called Shields Up)

Port Authority Edition – Internet Vulnerability Profiling
by Steve Gibson,  Gibson Research Corporation.

Browser Reload Suppressed

For your security, your web browser's "reload"
function has been temporarily disabled

Allowing a web browser to "reload" a page which has already been sent to you creates a "security hole" that would allow someone using your computer at any later time to attain potentially private and personal information.

To safeguard your privacy we have disabled the browser's "reload" or "refresh" facility while you are in sensitive areas of our web site. Reloading pages will function normally once you have left this area . . . but until then please refrain from "reloading" pages.

You may press your browser's  [BACK]  button now to return to the page prior to the one you were just viewing.

Thanks very much for your interest and patronage.

[/b]

I get the same thing - back and forward buttons in IE are disabled. 

I haven't used ShieldsUp for a couple of years - used to be an excellent reference site for testing PC security before personal firewalls became common.  Gibson Research used to have a good reputation.

[TheBoy]

BT Broadband as with other service providers slow the service down between 6pm and midnight, or there would not be enough bandwidth to go around.
Try a speedtest at
http://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2

If I use that site I get the following.(Something called Shields Up)

Port Authority Edition – Internet Vulnerability Profiling
by Steve Gibson,  Gibson Research Corporation.

Browser Reload Suppressed

For your security, your web browser's "reload"
function has been temporarily disabled

Allowing a web browser to "reload" a page which has already been sent to you creates a "security hole" that would allow someone using your computer at any later time to attain potentially private and personal information.

To safeguard your privacy we have disabled the browser's "reload" or "refresh" facility while you are in sensitive areas of our web site. Reloading pages will function normally once you have left this area . . . but until then please refrain from "reloading" pages.

You may press your browser's  [BACK]  button now to return to the page prior to the one you were just viewing.

Thanks very much for your interest and patronage.

[/b]

I get the same thing - back and forward buttons in IE are disabled. 

I haven't used ShieldsUp for a couple of years - used to be an excellent reference site for testing PC security before personal firewalls became common.  Gibson Research used to have a good reputation.

And equally a bad one, infamous for overblowing minor and non-issues, just to get his face in the press