[Scottish] Network testing tools?

[Rory Macdonald]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 11:08, Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote:

> by the way, ADSL in the UK is a pure rip-off.  I have a connection at home,
> about ?20/month, and at best i get 65-70Kb/s.  I complained about this, and
> i was told this was normal for my package.
> My brother in Belgium pays the same, and he gets 300-320kB/s !!  I don't
> think there's a rational (non-market related) explanation for such a
> difference.

I'm in the UK and I'm very happy with my £19/month ADSL service,
normally seeing well over 450Kbps. Are you sure you're not reading
65-70KBps ('B'ytes instead of 'b'its)? What procedure are you using to
get your figures?

Rory

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