Heh, this ADSL currently goes through 2 x 1Gb fibre into Telehouse North, which I guess is how I was able to download an Ubuntu ISO at 54M/sec … however, they’re hitting 25% utilisation so there is now an upgrade on order … there’ll be 10G there by the middle of October … 10G !
Anyway, I need two testers for the new service … list price from the retailers is £52/month (24M down, 1M up, no effective limits or surcharges) and is designed to be a top-of-the-range business service. If anyone’s interested, the first two MAC keys that land in my inbox get a connection for £18 + vat per month, no setup. You will need your own router if you don’t have one, and you’ll only get 8M if that’s all your local exchange has … but the upgrade to 24M is free when the exchange gets it.
I have a room in the DC now and I’m planning on being there for a couple of days a week, so if anyone’s passing through Cheltenham, feel free to say hello …
I have been with Demon since 1996, and I believe Thus bought them a few years back but still kept the Demon branding (but added A Division of Thus plc).
The HomeOffice 8000 plan I’m on costs £19.57 + VAT per month (£22.99 p/m currently). Its uncapped, and contention is fairly typical of office-type ADSL packages. I live out in the sticks, but only a mile from the exchange, so my downstream speed is usually around 7.2 mbps
I have been with Demon since 1996, and I believe Thus bought them a few years back but still kept the Demon branding (but added A Division of Thus plc).
Ahh, Ok, I just sort of assumed it’d all changed to Thus … I think I stopped using Demon in 1994, I guess things have changed a bit since then …
My memories of Demon; http://bob.bofh.org/~robm/knowledge/news-server.html
Just looking at Demon’s site, “Homeoffice 8000” sounds quite good, although I would point out that it seems the current incarnation of the “HomeOffice 8000” product comes with a 60Gb usage allowance and is tied into a 24 month contract … The Business 2+ services comes with much more generous usage allowances, and are not much more expensive … although personally I’m not a fan of minimum term contracts …
I’m a fair way from the exchange too , just checking the router I’m currently seeing 448 / 7,584 which seems quite reasonable … but that’s a function of BT + distance …
This isn’t a “download speed” indication … more a test of how fast your ISP can route a ping from your PC to the linux.co.uk server and back again, and how much this deviates.
The max deviation on yours mine and bankos (mine and bankos being Sky) are much the same … but BkS (Sky also) is all over the place ???
BkS may have been a one-off, or his LAN may have been overstretched at the time.
Ideally you’d run this when you are the only person using the LAN, and run it a few times (at different times of the day) over a few days, to try get a handle on whether it is a contention issue, or Sky just hate you
As I said, this is NOT an indicator of up/download (transfer) speeds.
Nah, that’s a lot better … the ping return times (unless consistently very high) aren’t as important as the Maximum Deviation (mdev) which on this attempt was:-
— linux.co.uk ping statistics —
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9013ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 53.604/54.688/55.479/0.730 ms
A BIG improvement on your last:- 96.831 ms
Ping return times are reliant on outside factors, but they shouldn’t deviate too much … this can play havoc with how “smooth” your internet experience is.
Major deviation can have an effect on things like gaming (or anything else that “likes” a consistent connection) … more so than ping return times (unless they are very high).
As I said, this is NOT a test for “speed” … more a test for consistency/quality.
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… I’m pretty sure we’re not going to count an office fibre connection as ADSL … :o