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Re: 10mb bb more like 6mb!

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

it is unusual, something not right there.

Their has to be some type of variation, even if you throttled it to 100kbit you would get 4 different set of results probably around 90-95kbit.

What browser are you using for the speedtest?

Wouldn't a router cause those type of results, ie that the max throughput has hit the limit? or is using USB?

Re: 10mb bb more like 6mb!

I use Firefox, with a 'busy' connection:-

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Sun, 21 May 2006 10:23:36 GMT



1st 512K took 671 ms = 763 KB/sec, approx 6287 Kbps, 6.14 Mbps

2nd 512K took 594 ms = 862 KB/sec, approx 7103 Kbps, 6.94 Mbps

3rd 512K took 500 ms = 1024 KB/sec, approx 8438 Kbps, 8.24 Mbps

4th 512K took 531 ms = 964.2 KB/sec, approx 7945 Kbps, 7.76 Mbps



Overall Average Speed = approx 7443 Kbps, 7.27 Mbps



Sun, 21 May 2006 10:27:46 GMT



1st 512K took 641 ms = 798.8 KB/sec, approx 6582 Kbps, 6.43 Mbps

2nd 512K took 796 ms = 643.2 KB/sec, approx 5300 Kbps, 5.18 Mbps

3rd 512K took 657 ms = 779.3 KB/sec, approx 6421 Kbps, 6.27 Mbps

4th 512K took 500 ms = 1024 KB/sec, approx 8438 Kbps, 8.24 Mbps



Overall Average Speed = approx 6685 Kbps, 6.53 Mbps

There's another couple of exactly 500ms timings. I can't see what the exact formula is but is seems to me that the resolution is only about 15-30ms in the timing, therefore if my speed is limited by the Terayon not too surprising gets exact repeats

Re: 10mb bb more like 6mb!

I'm not on USB and my router is a linksys wrt54g plus I have had test results of 9.5meg up until a week ago and my results aren't always 3 or 4 identical ones.

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ps. in the last week I've also had to do the proxy dance a lot.