Is it possible to test this.........?

from blueyonder.discussion.hi-speed:

"Hi Guys, I work from home and have discovered that since the alleged 50%
upgrade, I am now able to download data at a slower rate than before. I
spent hours on the phone to Belkin, testing my router and hours on the phone
to Blueyonder support. Eventually, someone at telewest informed me that
because of the recent 50% upgrade, to combat all of this free bandwidth,
they were now limiting the amount of data available in a single download.
This means that if you are doing multiple downloads then you will see an
increase in overall speed, but if you are transmitting a single download,
then only 60 to 65% of the total bandwidth is now available."

The allegation has been hotly denied by a Blueyonder employee but is there a
way that such a claim could be tested?

TIA.

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:03:43 GMT, Adam Frankel wrote:

> from blueyonder.discussion.hi-speed:
>
> "Hi Guys, I work from home and have discovered that since the alleged 50%
> upgrade, I am now able to download data at a slower rate than before. I
> spent hours on the phone to Belkin, testing my router and hours on the phone
> to Blueyonder support. Eventually, someone at telewest informed me that
> because of the recent 50% upgrade, to combat all of this free bandwidth,
> they were now limiting the amount of data available in a single download.
> This means that if you are doing multiple downloads then you will see an
> increase in overall speed, but if you are transmitting a single download,
> then only 60 to 65% of the total bandwidth is now available."
>
> The allegation has been hotly denied by a Blueyonder employee but is there a
> way that such a claim could be tested?
>
> TIA.

Of course it's been denied by Alex - it's because you've been given a load
of bull.

The way to test it is to download single large file via ftp from, say
Microsoft, and see what your speed is. I don't see any download speed
difference whether I'm downloading a single file or multiple files, and yes
I'm a Blueyonder customer.

Regards

Bill

On 10 Oct 2004 in uk.telecom.broadband, "Adam Frankel" wrote:

>The allegation has been hotly denied by a Blueyonder employee but is there
>a way that such a claim could be tested?

a) can you achieve the higher speed when downloading small files (speed as
reported by your firewall software)
b) try downloading something of moderate size (I found someone's 65 minute
.rm file today, and I think there are 4 hours of music from Warwick Uni
students' radio (RaW - <http://www.radio.warwick.ac.uk/>) recorded last
summer for BBC R1...
c) start multiple WinMediaPlayer streams and perhaps a webcam (eg from the
support pages of Plus.Net) so you can be sure the maximum is achievable
before wondering if things are 'capped'. It's quite rare to be able to
find anything that fills my 1000 kbps connection - 70-80% is common for
a single source (ie approx 75 kBps) and I can fill it with a few things
going at once so not sure about what sources people use for 2000 kbps!