yesterday when you made your speedtest to London, there was a problem with most ISPs in Cyprus for 12 hours and speeds were too slow. I was getting the same results as you at that time.
it was probably because of thunders.
I called cablenet and they told me it's a general problem and it will be fixed soon.
I called cyta and when I chose DSLAccess menu it was hanging up the line.
I asked some friends which are on cytanet and they told me they had problems too.

So, today, london is again as follow

The internet speed is not constant.  Sometimes it is good, a lot of times it is not.   

The ping speeds are poor.   


A speedtest to limassol shows:


But if you try to do a speedtest outside of Cyprus



The wireless on the modem is horrid.  I have to constantly reboot the modem because for some reason the wireless functions very slowly periodically (regardless if I have full signal and am sitting next to it). 

Finally the digital tv I am paying extra for that requires a set-top box which I was instructed to switch off when not in use so it doesn't catch on fire (show's how great their equipment is) does not work.  All my channels give 'Access Denied'.   

Παρατήρησα χτες ότι στο πακέτο της Cablenet προστέθηκαν 3 νέα κανάλια HD:
Discovery HD
National Geographic HD
National Geographic Wild HD

Τα έχει κανένας?
Από ποιότητα εικόνας τι λένε?
Πιο HD Receiver δίνουν τώρα?

Stefandem - if "number 8" has a problem the next packet gets rerouted because routing is done by protocols, not by acts of faith. And if rerouting can not happen then it is your ISPs problem for not providing sufficient bandwidth to handle it, so your ISP ends up downgraded using the worst route, instead of slowing the whole planet's traffic, waiting for its packets to travel through its narrow pipe. Thats the whole point behind routing. And since YouTube collects streaming statistics on ISPs - it becomes blatantly obvious how every particular ISP is handling its traffic.

Thankfully it seems CableNet has finally decided to improve!

milisa me th cyta kai afou mou eipan ena swro vlakeies. kataliksame na mou poun oti einai diko mou to la8os kai oti zhthsa na ginei ypova8misi ths DSL ACCESS kai oxi kai tou netrunner.
tous eipa na akousoun thn hxografisi pou eixa thlefwnhsei stis 4 fevrouariou pou eipa ka8ara oti 8elw na ginei ypova8misi kai sta dyo kai na exw to paketo twn 20,70 euro

Shmera me phran thlefwno kai mou eipan oti ontws htan apo la8os ths ypallhlou pou den kataxwrhse thn allagh KAI sto netrunner (me eixan mexri shmera sto 4000)
8a mou pistosoun to logariasmo me ta lefta ths diaforas 

telika oi axristoi ths cyta eksakolou8oun tis vlakeies. sto logariasmo fevrouariou htan xrewmeno netrunner 1000 kai 4000.
sto logariasmo martiou htan xrewmeno to dslaccess 1000 kai 4000. kai stis 30 martiou ekana diakopi genikws apo th cyta kai paredosa to modem 31 martiou. plhrwsa ta panta kai....
ton aprilio vlepw apo ebill xrewsh dslaccess xwris na thn exw.

ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ ΧΡΕΩΣΗΣ   ΠΟΣΟ (€)
DSL Access Home 1000-Συνδρομή   10,52
ΟΛΙΚΟ   10,52
Φ.Π.Α.   1,58
ΣΥΝΟΛΟ:   12,1

Η CYTA ποτε δεν κανει το ίδιο λάθος. ΠΑΝΤΑ ΚΑΙΝΟΥΡΙΑ!!!!!!!!!

No, it means you still don't understand how things work and as long as you don't understand, you remain an unsatisfied customer.
when I was connected to cytanet on 2mbit I measured my speed on a server and it showed exactly 2mbit. on another server it showed 0.5mbit. is that particular IPS not using the right servers? An ISP cannot choose the right servers to satisfy our monitoring needs and check millions of servers to get the proper speeds EVERYWHERE on earth.

Look from how many places the line passes from me to get to youtube. If lets say number 8 has a slow connection and/or heavy traffic, everything is messed up. it's not the ISP problem. that's why you might get different results from various speed tests on speedtest.net

  1     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  2    11 ms     9 ms     8 ms  v880.core-r.nic-east.cablenet-as.net
  3    18 ms    12 ms     7 ms  109.110.244.5
  4   120 ms   108 ms   123 ms  pos100.edge-r.hex67.uk.cablenet-as.net [91.184.1
92.137]
  5   106 ms   130 ms   123 ms  195.66.226.125
  6   105 ms   107 ms   114 ms  209.85.252.76
  7   167 ms   166 ms   172 ms  216.239.43.192
  8   205 ms   195 ms   201 ms  209.85.251.9
  9   187 ms   186 ms   191 ms  72.14.232.215
 10   225 ms   212 ms   193 ms  209.85.253.161
 11   306 ms   231 ms   315 ms  yw-in-f93.1e100.net [74.125.47.93]

Trace complete.

Which simply means that this particular ISP is not using the right servers

The measurements for an Internet Service Provider (ISP) are computed by averaging the daily averages of all users (again based on VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE cookie) who use the same ISP and are in the same geographic region. The ISP speed number will be an average of all users across all types of Internet connectivity and service plans offered by the ISP.

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=174122

Which simply means that this particular ISP is not using the right servers

The measurements for an Internet Service Provider (ISP) are computed by averaging the daily averages of all users (again based on VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE cookie) who use the same ISP and are in the same geographic region. The ISP speed number will be an average of all users across all types of Internet connectivity and service plans offered by the ISP.

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=174122

Bob you have to learn one thing.
a speed test is always not accurate and does not represent the actual speed of one ISP
you may run a speed test on one state of the USA and get 10mbit and run a speed test on another state and get 0.1mbit
do you believe that the second test represents the speed of your ISP even if you are running the test 100 times a day for one year and get the same results? the answer is NO
there are various factors that affect the accuracy of a speed test. in this case cablenet may pass from slower backbones, servers and so on until it reaches youtube. Cyta may pass from faster ones. they might pass through 10,20,30 different locations until they reach youtube. cyta might pass through less locations.
if one of these locations is slow, the game is over. for you, this means your ISP is not fast enough or it's getting from slow to slower.

It seems that with the new higher prices for internet access CableNet has headed for new lows in speeds...

In the meantime CableNet continues to be the slowest internet provider in Cyprus:

you are absolutely true.
I am on 10mbit and look how slow my cablenet connection is
I have also received a notification for the 90 cent.
come on, it's not the end of the world. it's just 0,9 euro.
if you are not happy with them, just inform them and switch to another cheaper, faster and better provider.