Broadband speed - upload and download

[Inner Zone]

This is what I get from Karoo ( Hull's very own ISP )

Not too bad for £12.50 a month.

Something wrong there. You are getting a slower download than upload.

[VauxVeteran]

Anyone using Tiscali? opinions?

[parapaul]

used to be with them for a few years, never had any problems.

[yorkshireborn]

Anyone using Tiscali? opinions?

heard nothing but bad comments and poor reviews.

[AntB]

I notice a few people here have high pings over relatively short distances, something you might want to get to the bottom of if you're into gaming online.

but you'll never find yourself recieving a file at 5mb per second from anywhere...

I regularly max out my connection when dl'ing, be it via http, ftp or other protocols.

[marly]

As AntB says these figures are in kilobits per second, so the download rate when doing an FTP, bit torrent or HTTP download is usually stated in kilobytes. E.g. divide your data rate by 8. so 4096kb/s (4mb/s) becomes 512 kilobytes per second which can easily be reached when downloading.

[Craig1985]

Im lucky as the exchange is v close to me, however I would not be without this...
http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/

this make much difference?

[Craig1985]

i use

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/

[Dose]

vectra 1.9cdti's site = 9841 dowload
477 upload.

Virgin media

[Caterman]

Anyone using Tiscali? opinions?

Don't get me started with Tiscrapi

I've just got out of my 12 mth contract 4 mths early as they could not provide a service that would give me anywhere near 8Mb. Normal days it was around 0.2Mbps Customer service was diabolical

Now with TalkTalk and getting a nice reliable 6.3Mbps Not too bad from a line Tiscrapi said would only support 2Mbps