Re: OTish: Broadband connection question

Trevor Best wrote:

Are you sure you're not seeing 100Mb/s on the network icon? This would
be the speed your PC is connected to the router (I assume you're
connected to the router by ethernet?)

Yes, of course, what a plonker. Doh!

What results do you get here? http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/

I'm not at home right now, but I'll try that later and see what I get.

Cheers for that. Sadly I think it means the perceived speed between 1 and 5
doesn't really become apparent till you try to download something large.
Normal surfing won't show much improvement as the bottleneck wasn't at my
end, even at only 1 Meg.

Ho-hum.

Regards

Mark

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