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DPA I would think

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Which do you guys find is the most realible Speed test?

According to the same server as this mornin my download speed is 50mb now but the ping has been cut in half too

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/05/31.png

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It's against the law mate, you could be anyone trying to get details from me about some ones account.

To be perfectly honest too mate, sales isn't something I've ever done, I wouldn't be much use.

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On speedtest.net there are different servers. By which I mean there are different servers with the same name. If you notice sometimes it will give you London by namesco and sometimes trancefm. The namesco server has by far the most bandwidth of all the servers, the 200mb triallists tested 180mb to it, however latency isn't great usually about 35ms for me. However the trancefm server has a lot lower latency, around 15ms but a lot less capacity, not enough for 100mbit, it sometimes struggles with 50. That's why your getting varied results

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Good point, never thought of that. I will give them a ring then.

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Namesco:
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/05/29.png

TranceFM:
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/05/30.png

As you can see the TranceFM server has lower ping. Its quite high for me today on both servers as im suffering from an upstream utilisation issue, as you can see the upload isnt even hitting its usual 4.7mb at half ten in the morning, it gets worse into the evening as well

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As you say craig, TranceFM has a lower ping but I've always found Namesco to give the most consistant results..



TranceFM
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/05/27.png

Namesco
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/05/28.png

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yeah namesco has massive capacity but trancefm seems to bottle out at 60-70mb, as does birmingham, but the latter 2 give lower pings

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how to test trancefm?

100% of time I always get namesco when picking london.

it even says hosted by namesco if I hover over the london speedtest.

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Click on settings and select the TranceFM sever.

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Funny because i get 5ms ping off Namesco and 13ms off TranceFM :confused:

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yeah it appears now I set as favourite server thanks, odd how you cant have both selectable at once.

I noticed high latency on trancefm also but then did a test in IE9.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/05/22.png

So now I am curious why FF has 4x the latency of IE. O_o

here is nameso on IE9.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/05/23.png

on FF I have nearly 50ms latency on same tests.

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You can always change back to having none as favourite and select as usual or pick one you rely on as your favourite.

Funnily enough when I first had 50Mb installed FF 3.5 consistantly reported slower speeds than IE for a while. Never got top the bottom of it though it sorted itself out after a couple of weeks.

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speeds are ok in firefox on the tests but I find the latency alarming, as I also see consistently slower browsing in firefox as well.

With no favourite server I still only see one london server, but I guess its random which one if none set.

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/05/20.png

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/05/21.png

My results seem to fit the trend about the ping. Really can't wait for upload speed upgrade, getting jealous at everyone else! lol