Karoo Max Speed Test Results
To see how my Karoo Max ‘8 Meg’ connection performed I did a speed test over at speedtest.net.
Click on the button below, take the test and post your results back to the comments section. Mine as you can see if rather poor. Am I alone or is everyone getting bad speed from Karoo Max?
On a side note, the karoo speed test shows my download speed as 236.29 kB/sec (or 1,890.32 kb/s if you prefer) Over 600kb/s more than the independent benchmark. I guess that means I’m still being bandwidth limited… Hmmm suspect…..
Update: After being approached by a fellow Karoo user for help, Just Uber was happy to give a home to The Unofficial Karoo User Forums. They’re run by a nice chap called Dylan who is trying to build a place where Karoo users can talk about their experiences. You can find me in there under the name lefty 
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December 15th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
986 kb !!!
Thats the best I’ve EVER had – mind you its 17:07 on Friday – and I’ve just been on to Karoo and SIX THOUSAND cstomers are lined out totally!!
No wonder its good this evening….. I originally rang up to find out why my connection was so jittery – turns out they’ve haf connected me to the 8Meg service, 4 days early…. D’oh.
The’re SO poor its untrue.
December 16th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Hi Phil,
So you’re getting 986 kb/s in the download test then with your 8 meg line?
What’s your adsl line connecting at? Mines currently 1.88 meg — Quite a long way short of 8 meg !
February 6th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Hi Have your speeds improved yet? I’m on th 8 meg and the karoo speedtest says 281Mbps nice speed but far short of the 8!!!
April 29th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
September 19th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
ALL karoo customers should NOW get together and create an online petition to present to our member of parliament and the trading standards bureau. Maybe the monopolies commission too?
I only get 19% of my expected bandwidth at best; it’s usually worse than this!!!
If that is the best they can do then I should only pay for the bandwidth I actually have available; therefore I should only pay 19% of my monthly subscription charges, that would be much fairer and I’m sure EVERYONE out there would agree with this? – So what can we ALL do about it NOW. We (Karoo customers) must unite and pull together as an online community otherwise our complaints will fall on deaf ears or even NO ears at all! Can anyone suggest how we might go about achieving a satisfactory result?
September 19th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
F.Y.I. I wrote to watchdog; maybe we all should?
HERE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/consumer/tv_and_radio/watchdog/contact_index.shtml
Thank you for taking the time to write to BBC Watchdog…
Because we receive so many emails, faxes, letters and phone calls, we are unable to respond personally to each and every one. However, your correspondence will be read by our research team and if we are able to pursue your complaint, a researcher from the Consumer Unit will contact you.
Once again, many thanks
The Watchdog Team
March 12th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
i just tested my service and im only getting 1-3mb instead of 8mb, so i rang them up and they say im capable of 16mb, sooo WTF is going on!!!!
March 23rd, 2010 at 7:31 pm
I’m on 8Mb, the speedtest.net results are:
Server: Manchester
Distance 100mi
download 5.13Mb
upload 0.34Mb
Ping 26ms
Now the 24Mb is the new generation broadband service, however when I check the karoo website to see what speed I can get the results are still only 5Mb. So.. much for the new generation 24Mb speed service