Show off your internet speed!

Mine technicolor router Can manage 300/50mbs

isaccasi said:

Hello my technicolor Modem/Router can manage 300/50 Mbps:)
I am very sorry double posting

You'r supposed to show speed to your IP.

Speed Test Results

Graph showing your download speed compared to estimated speeds for broadband available in the B75 7ES area: (Read detailed report...)
203.71 Mb
Download speed
12.75Mb upload
29 ms ping time

Virginmedia by far the best in the UK, by over 50% from its nearest competitor. I expected it to be slower because in the UK, so many kids online on holidays playing none stop games.

After months of waiting my new cable has gone live

z3r010 said:

After months of waiting my new cable has gone live

Show Off John ....your d/l speed is like 5 times faster than mine .....I am jealous

Atomcrusher said:

... and 30+ times faster that my DL here in Darkest Africa (I'm a couple of hundred km east of Cape Town)

Here in the UK are 'dark spots' even today. I have a friend in Cornwall where they still have to rely on the phone cables to get data. Its not 'cost effective' to spend millions laying fibre optics to a community spread out across a green county.

I thought why dont they build ONE giant transmitter and sent out wireless? Here where I live we have a giant digital tv transmitter which has enormous range. It replaced the old analogue tower a few years ago, which also had the massive range. If cornwall has such a transmitter they can piggy back digital wireless.

elbmek said:

Here in the UK are 'dark spots' even today. I have a friend in Cornwall where they still have to rely on the phone cables to get data. Its not 'cost effective' to spend millions laying fibre optics to a community spread out across a green county.

I thought why dont they build ONE giant transmitter and sent out wireless? Here where I live we have a giant digital tv transmitter which has enormous range. It replaced the old analogue tower a few years ago, which also had the massive range. If cornwall has such a transmitter they can piggy back digital wireless.

Around here most internet access is by WiFi (2.4 and 5GHz) from mostly small providers. Cable (internet + TV) in larger urban centers and for people in villages and remote areas over mobile (cellular) network which has 99.9% coverage anyway and it's cheap to just add 3G and 4G internet options to already existing repetitions. Granted, most of WiFi and mobile network internet is not very fast, actually in lower spectrum of service (10 -50Mbps). Wired telephone network wasn't good in rural areas, with line and exchanges too old and mostly inadequate for ADSL to be even considered. In addition, landline infrastructure was poorly maintained because of many wars although telephone service was established very early, barely a year after first New York telephone exchange thanks to American scientist Mihalio Pupin which was born here but who's inventions were instrumental in long distance (over couple of miles) telephone service (Pupin's coil) .