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I had found a very good speed test site that will do 10, 30, 50 and 100 Meg a good accurate and reliable speed test.

Try this link and post back with your result: http://speedtest.magnet.ie/

Last Result:
Download Speed: 96412 kbps (12051.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 9573 kbps (1196.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Ping: 11ms

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Magnet Networks

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/09/13.png

Namesco Broadband MAX

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/09/14.png

OOKLA Speedtest.NET

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/09/15.png

http://www.pingtest.net/result/47367976.png


does seem to give nice consistent speed tests when compared to the others.
although worth noting they all use the ookla speedtester, just running on different servers.

Good find :)

Virgin Media have a couple of internal speed testers running,

http://Speedtest.VirginMedia.com
http://Speedtest1.VirginMedia.com
http://Speedtest2.VirginMedia.com
http://Speedtest3.VirginMedia.com
http://Speedtest4.VirginMedia.com

But they are all password protected, shame they dont open at least one up for Virgin Media subscribers only.

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Virgin Media have a couple of internal speed testers running,

http://Speedtest.VirginMedia.com
http://Speedtest1.VirginMedia.com
http://Speedtest2.VirginMedia.com
http://Speedtest3.VirginMedia.com
http://Speedtest4.VirginMedia.com

But they are all password protected, shame they dont open at least one up for Virgin Media subscribers only.

I agree! It very selfish of Virgin Media won't let us have one of those test because they don't want us to know the real true speed test I suppose.

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yep, they could easily open it up to VM subscribers by shoving it on a VM server within the network that is only accessible via a VM Internet Connection.

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Wow, telford's back and posting rubbish speedtests again! Wonder if he gets comission per speedtest he brings to the sites, because every one he has claimed so far to be "good" "accurate" or "reliable" has been anything but.

Magnet.ie can't reliably measure any connections over 50mbps download or 10mbps upload.

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Wait for the bull plop about some new connection he has been signed up for or some info the ceo's cats fur trimmer told him about. :LOL:

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Don't feed ;-)

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Sorry could not help it :)

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I am still trying to work out if the imminent collapse of the stock markets around the world and the satellite crashing to earth are linked to the return of telfordcable in same way :-/

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Or it could be because they want those servers to be fast, responsive and accurate for their engineers who use them to test new connections rather than what happened when the details to the speed testers went public.

Customers, mostly with no issues at all beyond a need to find faults and an addiction to speed tests, caned the test boxes and when engineers came to test customer connections they were unreliable due to load on the servers.

I have to admit I really don't understand the obsession with knowing exactly how fast the connection is if it browses fast, streams smoothly, games responsively and is there or there abouts when doing normal downloading.

EDIT: Just for you Telford - this is spot on every time :)

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My 10Mb Speedtest
http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/res...683&v=13792268
http://www.pingtest.net/result/47386271.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1498479376.png
http://speedtest.uk.net/result/52950/%3E%3C/a%3E

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Give me that damn password as I wanna to try virgin media speedtest net from virgin media server, how selfish virgin media is!

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/09/12.png

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/09/13.jpg

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That one is just a custom Ookla (aka Speettest.net). It may be running on the Magnet servers, but it uses the exact same methodology that other Ookla ones will use (including the VM one).

So yeah.

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To me the best scenario would be if VM have eg. 5 speedtest servers, open up 2 or 3 of them to VM ip ranges. And keep 2 as engineer only.

But its not a major issue because they do accept poor speedtest.net results as evidence of poor performance.

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Just testing virgin media true speed on the new virgin media test site!

http://s1.postimage.org/jpzwy7i6c/Untitled.jpg

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a link would be nice mate

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telford didnt you cancel your cable?

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No, I never cancel my cable!

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Each test comes up with completely different results

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The link are here: http://80.3.144.194

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Access forbidden! :( didn't realize you were a vm employee too.

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I got the login and password as vm engineer type it in as he forget to clear it when he left :)

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be nice, erase it from your history :)

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I had now erase from history! It now asking me for login & password which I had no idea

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Admitting illegal and unauthroized access to VM servers on a public forum. Good call.

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old topic... but these servers have now been opened up under a VM Trial.

Username and password is available on the net :)

not going to post here, as said previously overload of their servers.

BUT it is an official trial going on and the credentials have been released by a VM member of staff and they can be found with a quick google search.

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http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...st/td-p/803499

they havnt been leaked, just opened up publically lol

anyone worked out the password to http://80.3.144.194/ yet? ;)

I never said they had leaked I said they was openly publicised as part of a trial

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yeah sorry old thread and all, the 'leaked' bit I read from one of the other posts

I did leak a bit of info myself though :D

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Lame. I bet they only want to run their own speedtests so they can avoid blame when they've provided too little backhaul or peering capacity and external speedtests show how crap the VM service is as a result.

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Here's two consecutive results from speedtest magnet:

Download Speed: 104454 kbps (13056.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 9454 kbps (1181.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Download Speed: 104315 kbps (13039.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 9586 kbps (1198.3 KB/sec transfer rate)


Then my usual test server.


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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/01/93.png


Seems pretty comparable to me.

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Here's my result using the MAGNET NETWORKS speedtest (couldnt get a pic!)
I'm on 100Mbit:

Last Result:
Download Speed: 32663 kbps (4082.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 9624 kbps (1203 KB/sec transfer rate)

If i go on any speedtest site I never get past 45Mbit!!!!

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could people please test Luxembourg > http://speedtest.net/ and state results, upload in particular

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/01/75.png

Can I ask why?

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just curious as to why mine shows up as 4Mb up too

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Luxembourg speedtest.net

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/01/73.png

London, Namesco

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/01/74.png


Yeah! I see your point.

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/01/72.png
Lulz

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is speedtest.net down?

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looks like it as all the images have disappeared

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Those VM speedtests seem to provide full whack for the first 2 seconds and then drop off considerably. I wonder if they have STM'd their own servers? :p

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On the other hand your processor could be struggling during speed tests thus giving you bizarre results.

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:D
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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/01/64.png
Meh. Speedtest still broken with fast uploads.

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Well Luxembourg is interesting. If you are a saddo who feels the need to pretend your internet is faster than it is it's the place to be.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/01/63.png


Primary Downstream Service Flow
Downstream(0)
SFID 9859
Max Traffic Rate 53000000 bps
Max Traffic Burst 10000 bytes
Mix Traffic Rate 0 bps
Primary Upstream Service Flow
Upstream(0)
SFID 9858
Max Traffic Rate 1750000 bps
Max Traffic Burst 3044 bytes
Mix Traffic Rate 0 bps
Max Concatenated Burst 0 bytes
Scheduling Type Best Effort

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I think Telford likes it.

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Considering the processor I have, that's not likely :)

And it was definitely network side anyway, live tomato graph shows the peak 50meg usage for a few seconds then it dies away while the test is still running.

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anyone else having troubles on speedtest.net? :mad:

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I use speedtest.net as it seems to be pretty on the money with what i have.....

No speed test will be 100% accurate tho........

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Nope, no problems using the same London server as you have used.
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/01/57.png

However using Maidenhead speedtest result looks a tad different.
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/01/58.png

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some of those servers on the site suck. just done another...

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That's why I don't rely on them. If my connection does what I want and isn't behaving out of the ordinary why waste time trying to get the "perfect" speed test reading. :shrug:

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true. I only test because of an ongoing issue or I wouldn't bother.

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Try downloading stuff from HERE and check how fast the download speed it.
This should tell you what you are getting.

ie if you are downloading a large one at 4.5mb p/s then you are gettting around 45MB...

This type of calculation works for me....

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VM Gamefiles has been pretty slow and useless for speedtesting for years now. (also 4.5MB/s is 36mbps)

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i can't even hit that. bt wholesale gives me a good reading

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/01/55.png

that is accurate (the speed) as downloads are matching that, abysmal.

and my area is in progression for speed doubling :LOL:

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I do wonder what they're doing with the contention ratios during this whole kerfuffle...

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Well publically they have stated they spending 110 million or so GBP on these upgrades. To me that doesnt sound like a lot of cash, as a comparison BT are spending many billions to put into perspective. I suspect early areas 'may' get what work they need for good performance as long as its easy then the latter areas (which seems like the upstream uplift 2 channels vs earlier area 3 channels) will simply get corners cut and the absolute min work done, I wouldnt be surprised if some areas have no work done and the configs are just switched over. Which is what I think happened here when 100mbit was activated as all I seen was a sudden drop in performance with no new special 5th DS channel etc.

I hope infinity gets rolled out here ahead of schedule as the lack of credible competition here is hurting.

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100 million on Usain Bolt. 10 million on green paint for the cabs.

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Pretty much spot on there Skie ;)

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Lol lol Skie lol.......................

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:LOL: sounds about right for their budget allocations.

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Check again. April - July.

No-where is in progress yet, first areas will go to that in March as card by card the uplift is done.

---------- Post added at 13:29 ---------- Previous post was at 13:26 ----------

Not really relevant, more down to average usage. If average usage is 200kbps at peak times contention ratio looks hideous selling lots of 50Mb services but is fine in practice.

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At a guess something to do with BT having to build an entire network overlay from final cabinet to exchange complete with tens of thousands of active MSAN cabinets, tons of new fibre runs and in some areas a complete network overbuild from access network to core. Along with that new OSS systems, additional equiment within exchanges, etc, etc, etc.

A slightly bigger task than upgrading an existing HFC network, hence why even with the huge amounts of people BT have working on this project it's taking 5 years while VM can complete their upgrades in 18 months.

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Yeah says the dates you said now just tried it again.

I guess was an error before.