sti-04!!

Hi there !

Got a question

Got BT Broadband in today & i am quite impressed at how quick it opens pages

But .................... the downloads are sooooooooooooooo slow like 1.24kb a sec ????

Is this right ?

ps got the 1/2meg connections thats all my line can handle

Anyone got any views ??

boxst

Hello

The downloads from where? You should be getting around 50kb/s. Go to Microsoft or Macromedia and download a trial of something and see what your average speed is.

Go to http://www.adslguide.org.uk and run their speed test.

If all those turn out at 1.5kb/s then you have a big problem. It is theoretically possible that you are on a heavilty contented exchange, but the problem would be intermittent, not constant.

Steve.

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

Depends what you're downloading - very popular files etc can easily be that slow.


M

sti-04!!

Downloading just normal program files, to be honest its really putting me off it

Should i contact BT ??

lightning101

That makes no sense at all - to display any "new" webpage, your Broadband has to download all the graphics on the page.


So a fast page display means quick downloading.

Try clicking CTRL + ALT + Del and see if the CPU time is jumping up and down even when running with nothing open.

DO the lights next to the Clock on the toolbar flash when you aren't even browsing the net ?

sti-04!!

Just phoned them, its the Sky Digital connection ?!?!?!

So unplugged it at the mo to see if that helps

Will keep you posted

sti-04!!

thats it phewwww