How many kB/s should I be getting?

christophicus

HOw many kB/s should I be getting with a 6Mb ntl connection when im downloading a file.

Robxxx7

christophicus wrote:

HOw many kB/s should I be getting with a 6Mb ntl connection when im downloading a file.

If you have 6mb download then i would expect somewhere in the region of 700kb as ur download figure (give or take a few KB for overheads etc)

Steffano2002

6Meg Line = 6000Kbps / 8 = 750KB/s

dathiultaigh

What would the highest and lowest DL speeds you should get from this service seeing as it is contended at 17:1?

Nody

dathiultaigh wrote:

What would the highest and lowest DL speeds you should get from this service seeing as it is contended at 17:1?

As noted above for max speed, for lowest divide by 17. Keep in mind this assumes a perfect line from your PC all the way through to where you test (which no ISP will promise).

neacy69

well that is the speed you can expect when not contended but this can also vary depending on the speed of the servers your downloading from or the number of seeds and peers for a particular torrent....

Stark

I can get 600-700 KB/s off a good server since they sorted out all the problems we were having.

Steffano2002

dathiultaigh wrote:

What would the highest and lowest DL speeds you should get from this service seeing as it is contended at 17:1?

Highest: 750KB/s, lowest: (750 / 17 44KB/s but this is theory. There are too many variables (PC, RG45 cable to PC, router, NTL Cable, NTL Network, Server you are downloading from, etc)...

DemonOfTheFall

I get 723 kB/s tops. I think I've got a pretty much perfect line since it used to manage 1202 kB/s back when NTL did 10 meg. So fair play if you get more than 720k out of your line.

christophicus

the max I have ever got was today and was 710 for a few seconds only before it dropped. can anyone suggest a good file/site to test from?

cheers
Chris

LoGiE

Download something from ftp.heanet.ie and leave it running for a while. This should give you a good representation of your speed.

christophicus

I get a much faster speed downloading from

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/download.php?latest

then I do from heanet. i thought there was supposed to be a problem with NTL and uk+ Irish sites? Boards is taking ages to load for me as is adverts+bbc

Steffano2002

christophicus wrote:

I get a much faster speed downloading from

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/download.php?latest

then I do from heanet. i thought there was supposed to be a problem with NTL and uk+ Irish sites? Boards is taking ages to load for me as is adverts+bbc

That's nothing to do with your connection. Boards.ie and Adverts.ie run on the same servers and they're having issues at present...

christophicus

ok are teh servers undergoing upgrades or something?

patto_chan

Maybe try a download speed test on www.irishisptest.com.

christophicus

No that website is not calibrated for NTL, or something like taht anyway.

DemonOfTheFall

Install a download manager like IDM that will use a lot of concurrent connections to max out your download speed. Unless we're talking about a really crappy website I rarely get under 600 kB/s with Internet Download Manager.

christophicus

Cheers I migth try that. My speed has gone to **** now though(relatively) When I started downloading counter strike I got 550 KB/s now its around 70 and staying there!! is everyone else's speed ok now?

freefall20

Its up to 6MB so anywhere from 600 - 750 KB/s.