Re: [Ql-Users] Firefox speed problems (OT)

2015-03-02 Thread John Alexander
Similar here 130Mbit down 10ish up ...which is one to shabby On 01/03/15 18:12, Norman Dunbar wrote: Evening All, just out of interest I tried running a speed test on a Linux laptop, with Firefox, utilising Flashplayer. I pay for 30 mb/s and the speed test showed a download of 61.45 mb/s

Re: [Ql-Users] Firefox speed problems (OT)

2015-03-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening All, just out of interest I tried running a speed test on a Linux laptop, with Firefox, utilising Flashplayer. I pay for 30 mb/s and the speed test showed a download of 61.45 mb/s with an upload speed of just under 3.98 mb/s. Being on Virgin, we got a free upgrade some time back

Re: [Ql-Users] Firefox speed problems (OT)

2015-02-24 Thread François Van Emelen
Geoff Wicks schreef op 23/02/2015 om 20:55: This is strictly speaking off topic, but given the number of us that are using Firefox as our default browser probably still relevant and helpful. Last week I went over to fibre broadband for financial reasons. My contract with BT was coming to an

Re: [Ql-Users] Firefox speed problems (OT)

2015-02-24 Thread Geoff Wicks
On 24/02/2015 11:19, François Van Emelen wrote: Hi Geoff, It is rather difficult to test internet speed. I have been testing a dozen of progs with Frefox and Opera (installed temporarily) and all but one require Flashplayer to be active. The results are all more or less the same: download=20

Re: [Ql-Users] Firefox speed problems (OT)

2015-02-23 Thread Lee Privett
Ah you maybe experiencing the death of Flash, as more and more websites transfer media controls directly using HTML 5. Are you using Firefox in Windows? I too experience slow ups, however my broadband is around 2 meg download and about 500k upload on good days when it is working. Oh for fibre

[Ql-Users] Firefox speed problems (OT)

2015-02-23 Thread Geoff Wicks
This is strictly speaking off topic, but given the number of us that are using Firefox as our default browser probably still relevant and helpful. Last week I went over to fibre broadband for financial reasons. My contract with BT was coming to an end, and to tempt me to stay they offered me