Is 400Mbps fast?

Hightower · 04 April 2007, 23:20

I've just hooked up a new modem and got it connected to the Ethernet connection of my PC, which I have never done before.

On my old modem it used to display 2.2Mb connection (USB) and this new one should give me 8Mb connection.

It does feel faster, but not by much.

codprawn · 04 April 2007, 23:28

Speed has little to do with the speed of browsing etc. It is only when you have sustained big downloads you notice - and many sites won't let you get the true benefit anyway.

I have a 20mb connection and can get 2000kbps sustained download - but when NTL proxy servers are playing up it can take 10 seconds to open a web page!!!

Hightower · 04 April 2007, 23:32

What I guess I'm tring to do is to find the speed of my connection. I'm wondering if the 400Mbps isn't the speed of my network connection and not internet connection.

So how can I find out what my new internet connection is?

codprawn · 04 April 2007, 23:34

You may be confusing kbps and mbps.

Hightower · 04 April 2007, 23:36

Is there an online checker I could use?

simmons0 · 04 April 2007, 23:36

http://www.speedtest.net

This is my results for 4Mb NTL broadband

Thats a download of 480KB/s which is close enough to the 512KB/s I should theoretically get,

Hightower · 04 April 2007, 23:43

Forget what I just said.

I still feel I have a faster connection than before, but that online checker I've just used is showing a speed of 2Mb's which is slower than I had before.

Very weird.

Chris · 05 April 2007, 07:53

Where it says your connection is running at 400Mbps thats the speed of your ethernet connection to the modem or router and has nothing to do with the speed of your internet connection.

When it comes to 8Mg Broadband few people actually do get a true 8Mg it depends on

where you are in the country
how far you are from your exchange
the quality of the cabling to your exchange
how many people are using broadband on your exchange

amongst other things!

Chris

eupa · 05 April 2007, 08:28

I use this all the time and is extremely "real" life.

www.bandwidthplace.com

Jonathan

Cookee · 05 April 2007, 10:01

I'm with BT in deepest darkest Devon ..........

Nos4r2 · 05 April 2007, 11:10

Funny, last night on 2mb NTL broadband I was getting almost identical results to Cookee-yet today I'm getting this:-

It's surprising how much difference daytime usage makes.

Biggles · 05 April 2007, 19:04

Andy,

Your router/modem will also have a home page that will show actual download and upload speeds.

MikeCC · 05 April 2007, 21:12

Aaah . . for the days of the 1200 baud modem with no error correction!

That's around 200 times slower than a 2Mb connection. Mind you, 20 years ago a whole green-screen full was 2000 characters, so still only took a couple of seconds for a new screen! A modern web page of around 50K would take 40s+ to load.

eupa · 06 April 2007, 20:22

Aaah . . for the days of the 1200 baud modem with no error correction

but also with full duplex....... those were the good old days!! I even starter at 360 BPS. Anybody remember "microlink" and BT gold??

jonathan

jwalker · 06 April 2007, 22:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by eupa

..but also with full duplex....... those were the good old days!! I even starter at 360 BPS. Anybody remember "microlink" and BT gold??

jonathan

I remember Micronet, 75 one way and 1200 the other. It worked fine. The days before Microsoft bloatware.

codprawn · 06 April 2007, 23:07

Ahh the days of clipping into BT phone boxes.........

Cookee · 10 April 2007, 15:46

15.46 at the office on Wanadoo!

codprawn · 10 April 2007, 17:59

We seem to have dropped back to a 10mb connection - we were on 20 - NTL are relaunching the 20mb service soon - prob no extra cost!!!

Tony · 11 April 2007, 10:29

Just out of pure envy..

what are you guys paying for you super fast services?

rickuk3 · 11 April 2007, 10:37

Just tested my orange broadband