Slow ADSL Speed Checks
What speed should you have?
The availability checker on the bottom left of [1] will give an estimate as to what your line should be capable of.
Finding your current Sync rate
You can check the linerate of your line - this is the speed of the line as reported to us by the back-haul provider.
Example:
This one has a rate of 228k - something is wrong!
Testing the Speed of the Line
There are various speed test sites on the internet that can be used to see what speed your line provides. We'd suggest using a few different ones so as to be sure a slow report isn't due to a slow speed test server.
There are official speed tesr sites provided by BT and TalkTalk, these have the advantage of being logged at the supplier side which will help in fault reporting.
We also run a speed test site.
Other speed test sites which we consider to be OK are:
- speedtest.net
- Thinkbroadband