Broadband speed - Auckland - WTF has happened

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 26th May 2011, 15:35

Originally Posted by PirateJafa

Ironically while you guys are boasting about better connections, mine has slowed right the fuck down.

Sigh.

so has mine... its diabolical...

**PirateJafa** · 26th May 2011, 15:36

Originally Posted by NighthawkNZ

so has mine... its diabolical...

Luckily, at some point in the last two years since I posted that, it has sped up again.

**Ricardo S** · 26th May 2011, 15:56

**Blackshear** · 26th May 2011, 16:27

Testy testy.

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 26th May 2011, 16:43

Originally Posted by PirateJafa

Luckily, at some point in the last two years since I posted that, it has sped up again.

mine hasn't

**JATZ** · 26th May 2011, 18:59

Just aswell I'm a patient person

**jaffaonajappa** · 26th May 2011, 23:38

Slingshot, all you can eat package.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1312991073.png

**jazfender** · 27th May 2011, 03:25

so who has the biggest e-penis?

**Quasievil** · 27th May 2011, 08:02

**martybabe** · 27th May 2011, 08:16

Would someone mind explaining what I'm reading here. I am old and don't understand computer speak. Clearly larger numbers are better, mine are rubish by the way. Download 1.32 mbs Upload 0.43 Ping 82 . what on earth is ping

Somebody take pity on a Puta dunce please

**The Stranger:Me** · 27th May 2011, 08:55

Originally Posted by martybabe

Would someone mind explaining what I'm reading here. I am old and don't understand computer speak. Clearly larger numbers are better, mine are rubish by the way. Download 1.32 mbs Upload 0.43 Ping 82 . what on earth is ping

Somebody take pity on a Puta dunce please

Ah not necessarily. The lower the ping time the better.
Ping is not unlike a sonar ping and tests the speed at which a packet of data can be sent and recieved. If you imagine say a multiplayer game where you are the only player with slow ping times everyone else can move and react to a situation before you are aware of it.

1.32 Mb/s is calculated from the time it takes to download a test package of data - say a file and the upload figure is the opposite and yes big is good.

In general terms it's not such a bad thing having the upload slower than the download as upload is like requesting a Web page or a file to be transferred. This is a very small amount of data going out for the request compared to the amount coming down to satisfy the request.

1.32 Mb/s is not so good. 1 Mb/s download used to be considered by Telecum as the fault threshold. Not sure if it still is. However, that's not to say the problem is automatically Telecum's. There are many reasons you may be experiencing slow speeds. Were I you I would discuss this with your ISP in the first instance as it's definately on the slow side.

**Okey Dokey** · 27th May 2011, 09:32

HA! I have 31 the biggest number so I win!!!

pity that it is kbps, not Mbps...

**martybabe** · 27th May 2011, 09:32

Originally Posted by The Stranger

Ah not necessarily. The lower the ping time the better.
Ping is not unlike a sonar ping and tests the speed at which a packet of data can be sent and recieved. If you imagine say a multiplayer game where you are the only player with slow ping times everyone else can move and react to a situation before you are aware of it.

1.32 Mb/s is calculated from the time it takes to download a test package of data - say a file and the upload figure is the opposite and yes big is good.

In general terms it's not such a bad thing having the upload slower than the download as upload is like requesting a Web page or a file to be transferred. This is a very small amount of data going out for the request compared to the amount coming down to satisfy the request.

1.32 Mb/s is not so good. 1 Mb/s download used to be considered by Telecum as the fault threshold. Not sure if it still is. However, that's not to say the problem is automatically Telecum's. There are many reasons you may be experiencing slow speeds. Were I you I would discuss this with your ISP in the first instance as it's definately on the slow side.

Cheers Mr Stranger, that makes it a bit clearer