Re: Virgin 2 way splitter
 

so those supposed to be two different speed tests for the same connection at different times of the day or two separate speed tests, one for each connection?

I am only asking because I wasn't sure if a multi-threaded speed tests would in essence split the connections it is making between the two wan connections so you would more or less get a picture of the combined speed.

Re: Virgin 2 way splitter
 

Adduxi has two WAN IP addresses and hence two TBB tests. (Dual WAN router).

Re: Virgin 2 way splitter
 

i feel like a right dick now, it even specifies the two different isps

Re: Virgin 2 way splitter
 

Seems like two different tests for the same connection - i.e. behind the dual-WAN router.

Notice how the result saying BT is giving a speed only possible on VM and the result saying VM is giving a speed only possible on BT. Such are the peculiarities of dual-WAN balancing when done at high level :)

Re: Virgin 2 way splitter
 

well spotted, at least you can see it makes some difference.

Re: Virgin 2 way splitter
 

Correct and right your Honour :)

It was really just to show how the TBB test was handled by the router. One test picked VM as the 'main' ISP, but used BT for other parts within the same test, and vice-versa.

Just quirky I thought ...... :cool:

Re: Virgin 2 way splitter
 

Yeah that's fairly normal for a "standard" WAN load-balancing setup, connections get steered between the two either at random or in a round robin basis but most routers will try keep connections to the same site (whether by IP or IP/port hash, etc) going through the same connection for compatibility reasons.

IIRC the Thinkbroadband tests use different IPs (but the same physical machine) to handle different parts of the test, which explains why the two parts of the test get sent through the two different connections.

If you were really clever and set up some custom balancing rules you might be able to end up with a 180Mbps speedtest result :P