If you mean me then I use the Irish ISP test link mentioned above.What are you testing in on?
and what speed would I need to ensure that webcam/video streaming will work ok? Trying to decide whether to sign up to Eircom 2Mbs which is 48:1 contention or 3Mbs which is 24:1 but 20 euro a month more expensive...
That is not quite correct. It's not a case of the ISP "rounding up/down" the speeds but rather the stated speeds being the theoretical maximum limit which will never be reached even on a perfect line due to protocol overhead including packet retries, timeouts etc. And it's certainly not a "scam".And you will never get an exact 2mbit/s down stream anyway the isp rounds-up the speed. the highest you'd ever get, is around 1.8mbit/s and upload speed is also rounded-up. But eircom wouldnt be trying to scam you if that's what you're asking in the first post
That is not quite correct. It's not a case of the ISP "rounding up/down" the speeds but rather the stated speeds being the theoretical maximum limit which will never be reached even on a perfect line due to protocol overhead including packet retries, timeouts etc. And it's certainly not a "scam".
1 Gig = 1024 Meg
1 Meg = 1024 bits
1Meg is meaningless.
Here's some homework reading for both of you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte
Note that most people (even those who should know better) are not that precise when it comes to distinguishing between SI (multiples of 1000) and "binary" (multiples of 1024) prefixes for units of information (e.g. they say 1kB when they actually mean 1KiB) and some are simply wrong (e.g. they say 1Meg which is largely meanigless but above probably means 1Mbps - but is that multiples of 1024 or 1000...).
I'm on UTV 2Mbps down/256Kbps up and get c. 1.6Mbps/166Kbps in practice. You never get the full nominal rate due to various factors.
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