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Broadband Faster in towns according to survey
« on: June 03, 2008, 01:40:37 PM »

Now here's a shock:

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London's broadband users can go online at average speeds nearly twice those in Wales and Northern Ireland, a survey for BBC News suggests.

Thinkbroadband.com analysed speed tests from the last two months in 6,000 locations and found the average speed to be 3.2 megabits per second (Mbps).

London's average speed was 4.5 Mbps, but in Northern Ireland it was 2.3.

Rural areas generally fared worse than towns, with telephone line lengths and lack of access to cable being blamed.

In Wales the average figure was 2.6Mbps and in Scotland 2.9 Mbps.

Full report here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7431336.stm
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Re: Broadband Faster in towns according to survey
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2008, 02:07:11 PM »

Does stand to reason (and law of physics) that the nearer you are to the exchange then the faster your speeds will be.
Therefore towns and cities are much more likely to have denser populations... and higher speeds than those areas where users are more likely to live in a remote location where homes are more spread out.

Theres also far more likely to be LLU providers offering adsl 2+ in large towns and cities which I should imagine will increase the average further.

Full report and a break down of the results.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3569-broadband-speeds-across-the-uk.html
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Re: Broadband Faster in towns according to survey
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2008, 04:17:25 PM »

BTW, I ran the speedtest on that BBC report, and it gave me a result of just over 4,000 Kbps, which is nowhere near my actual figure.
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Re: Broadband Faster in towns according to survey
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2008, 04:47:42 PM »

BTW, I ran the speedtest on that BBC report, and it gave me a result of just over 4,000 Kbps, which is nowhere near my actual figure.

Hmmm... not exactly the best speedtester to check high speeds with - the test is too quick.
It gave me a result of 13.8 Mbps - yet the TBB one gave me 18.5 Mbps.

Watching DUMeter as both tests were performed - the BBC  one very briefly spiked at around 10Mbps.. whilst the TBB was more like a constant 22Mbps (inc TCP/IP overheads)...  see attached image to see how noticeable the difference between the 2 tests were.

PS its constantly repeatable.

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