+1 from me, I love chocolate. If you could see me, you would see that I do!
Oops I've just gobbled down a hadfull of fudge

I'm eating chocolate chip ice cream and it's soooooooooooo yummy

Not bad for a shared line?!




.............whoops sorry just realised this is off topic. Don't like chocolate. Started a micro'd belgian gloopy pud all for myself the other day and ended up chucking it. Kept the plastic bowl, though. Far more use!

Sorry Fred.....I was on topic originally!

This subject is no longer on topic.

If you want to discuss it further start a new thread in "The Lab" or PM me.

not like you to go off thread fiona

That's pretty good. The Jitter value is probably due to the chocolate!

Is here a good moment to admit I don't know what jitter value is? Morning after the night before notwithstanding

Actually, the ping is very variable cos I have a ping going almost constantly just to check on who's using what cos if my neighbour's downloading films it's likely to affect my speeds.... can go from high hundreds to 90 or so in the blink of an eye, and vice versa.

You and me both!

I think it may have something to do with my intake of Teachers late in the evening.

http://www.pingtest.net/learn.php


Ping
This measurement tells how long it takes a "packet" of data to travel from your computer to a server on the Internet and back. Whenever you experience delayed responses in Internet applications - this would be due to a higher than desired ping. Similar to packet loss, lower is better when it comes to ping. A result below 100 ms should be expected from any decent broadband connection.

Jitter
Once you understand ping, jitter should also make sense. Jitter is merely the variance in measuring successive ping tests. Zero jitter means the results were exactly the same every time, and anything above zero is the amount by which they varied. Like the other quality measurements, a lower jitter value is better. And while some jitter should be expected over the Internet, having it be a small fraction of the ping result is ideal.

Packet Loss
Much as it sounds, if you have anything less than complete success in transmitting and receiving "packets" of data then you are experiencing this problem with your Internet connection. It can mean much slower download and upload speeds, poor quality VoIP audio, pauses with streaming media and what seems like time warping in games -- your connection may even come to a total standstill! Packet loss is a metric where anything greater than 0% should cause concern.


HTH

And here's me thinking that
Ping..............something done with bra strap
Jitter............how you feel when bra strap has been pinged
Packet Loss.......shrinking manhood

You called?

To "move with the times", INTERNET SPEED has EVERYTHING to do with TV's, and visa versa.

DSB.

INTERNET SPEED has something to do with TV, as well as POE and VOIP and WIFI and CCTV and Security and Teleconferencing etc etc etc all of which are vying for a share on what at times is a very shaky bit of copper string,
but surely nothing to do with the size of his and width of hers etc etc

It is all a means to an end, something that was started back in Neolithic Times (or earlier) - the desire to communicate, the desire to entertain to achieve that communication.
Something that can be difficult in Spain with its scattered communities, a much neglected backbone infrastructure, where a strong wind can lead to a loss of that communication due to a single loose connection.

And an increased bandwidth will not necessarily improve the Ping in the same way as increasing the diameter of a water pipe won't improve the Ping - as ping is based on the distance from A to B and the restrictors (servers) etc that are inbetween. Also you have no control over the available bandwidth due to multi-moding and the construction of the WAN on the backbone. This has been reflected in this thread by people getting better bandwidth after the local factory has closed for the day, as just like water the more you tap off the flow run to other useres the more the flow pressure reduces to the end of the line.
none of this applies to TV signals transmitted by RF be it terrestial or satellite as the number of receivers isnt restricted so the number of watchers is infinite.

next week we can look at the use of multi-mode fibres and the increased chances of clashes because the different light frequencies travel at different speeds.

give him one Ping Vassiley!

hth

The title of this thread is "Your Internet speed" it is not....the size of your TV.....mine is bigger than yours!

To some of us here in the sticks Internet speed is very important, many of us get 1mb on rural connections.... we couldn't watch TV on our computers even if we wanted to do so!

Now if you can come up with a solution as to how we can get better speeds without Telefonica/Movistar updating the entire rural network...that really would be a "move with the times" moment!
And before someone says move to another company....we don't have that option in the campo, they don't make enough profit to make then want to compete with Movistar.