What broadband speed is to be expected?
Question by Gulliver: What broadband speed is to be expected?
Although I have Sky broadband which says it offers up to 8(kb?) speed, my system appears to be getting slower and slower, and whilst the signal strength is reported as ‘excellent’ it only shows 54 Mbps. Could that explain the slow speed, and should I expect more than 54 Mbps?
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Answer by MICHAEL D
Sky broadband is though a BT land line which is wire and is slow. The father you are away from the exchange the slower it gets. with Virgin it is fast as they use fiber-optics. i get 18Mb out of 20Mb. I use wireless and Sky is only 2Mb any way.
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I would also recommend the Sam Knows website, it has tools to let u know how far from the exchange you are and what speeds are reasonable to expect.
You Sky Download speed will be upto 8 Meg, and the previous post is correct about your 54 Mps being your wireless connection to the router. Something that works on occasions is resetting your router….by this I mean turning it off for about 30 secs and then back on (not pressing the reset to manufacturers default).
I’m with Sky and get about a 3.5 Meg download speed and I’m about 847 metres from the exchange.
I’ve also given the link to the Sky Users forum which has some very useful people and posts.
The 54 Mbps is almost certainly because you are using a wireless connection. That’s the speed from your PC to the router.
The router connects to the Internet using Sky Broadband and I think you have the 8Mbit service.
Visit this site and you can see what speed others see. Just enter your postcode
http://www.dslreports.com/archive?cid=603
Now run the test here to see what speed you actually achieve
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?flash=1