 Regional Broadband speeds? advice?
Hello
I got regional broadband (wireless / apparently government subsidies help with the costs) installed earlier this month in north Wicklow, and sometimes it seems like ages for pages to download. I paid for a 2 meg download 1 meg upload connection on a contention ratio of 30:1. Here is my average result:
138 kbps (18 KB/s) 63kbps (8KB/s) 44 % 331 ms 1646 ms
I contacted my provider and he explained that my 2 meg connection can possibly be cut thirty ways, if everybody is using their computers at any one given time; but that would drag my download down to 66kbps, which is practically dial-up speeds. I did a test at 2:15 in the morning, which is obviously off peak, but my download speed was still only 154kbps. Surely there isn't 13 people leaving their computers on all night downloading. Crikey!! I am paying 50 euro a month for this!!
I am new to this, so can somebody please give me some advice? My provider says that their contention ratio is better than average, but another member on this forum has posted downloads of 1700kbps on a 2 meg download. But thats 12 times my speed, how is this possible? is his contention ratio 1:1? I can't imagine he's paying over 600 euro a month for it. What is the norm I should be expecting? Many Thanks.  |