Has VM pulled their speedtest.net servers?
 

Hi,

On speedtest.net VM us to have servers around the country, however I went to test yestarday and noticed the only one available was in Dublin.

Has VM pulled all their speedtest.net servers?

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Yes - there is a thread over here about it

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5...668184#M266926

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They were useless in my experience anyway, I always got substantially lower results from their servers compared to other providers like structured communications or spitfire, the speeds reported by the latter mentioned were consistent with what I could get with real-world downloads.

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Also Speedtest.net (and others) is a test to your device over both your home network and VM, so the speed could actually be fine to your Hub, and then a problem in your home network only.

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…. and,if I understand correctly, there is no longer a requirement to use an Ethernet-connected device to get the speed being delivered to the Hub as the SamKnows Realspeed test measures that:

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Anyoneknow if the VM/SamKnows Realspeed test be available for customers using a Hub 3 and 200Mb at some point?

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It has been tested on Hub3 and will be made available. It is also the reason that the Speedtest servers have been removed.

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Thank you for the information RobboEdin, hopefully I will get some form of notice when us, errrrrr, less well endowed customers are given access. :)

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Ahh the "sells a 1gig service that can't supply 1gig to a single device" has come home to roost. :angel:

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It's not sold as 1Gig to a single device

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Do we know if this is only going to be available to hubs in router mode?

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Yes, Sam Knows needs the Hub to be in router mode as that's what it's part of.

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Well no point me using the samknows considering I have a mesh network for better WIFI

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You can still use it to measure the speed to your hub & devices, even if you have your own mesh WiFi providing you aren't in modem mode

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You can turn off the VM wifi - I use Google Mesh for wifi.

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It can't supply 1G to any number of devices if you have it in modem mode, which I imagine a high proportion of people willing to spring for 1G will want.

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Correct, but you could have 250Mb+250Mb+250Mb+250Mb across the four Ethernet ports in router mode.

The limitation is per Ethernet port.

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Actually according to people on this very forum , in modem mode the Hub4 is quite capable of dishing out >1GB across 2 Ethernet ports if you use a switch to bond the connections.

Bit silly to have to do that, but if you have a home network capable of over a gigabit then it's the only way to achieve that speed.

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You've a problem with your link, doesn't go anywhere just like bonding for a switch. It is still less than 1Gb unless you don't have any overheads which is impossible.

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Fixed the link.

Might want to read it, unless 1.2Gbps is overhead :D

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One point. In moden mode there is only one working ethernet port.

This sounds more like using the pfSense to balance the internal 10Gb network over the 4x1Gb connections of the Hub 4 in router mode.

How can you use more than one active port in modem mode?

Re: Has VM pulled their speedtest.net servers?
 

all 4 ports are actually active in modem and support balance-rr (round robbin) the SH3 also supports it though there is really little need to do it on the SH3

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Indeed, I am aware, I posted on the thread about that showing how I'd tested this with the SH3 connected to a Mikrotik 10GbE switch going from there to my UDM-P via 10G SFP+ DAC.

But that's not really a good solution is it? Liberty need to update to a SH4.1 with either 2.5GbE, or, even better, an SFP+ port, that 2nd option probably being cheaper as well.

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Thanks for that, didn't know.;)

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I have a Fingbox to protect my home network, This allows me to do a speed test for the device I'm using or the Fingbox.


I can easy hit 220meg over Wi-Fi.

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The Virgin media router doesn’t support balance-rr, it’s just responding on the port it last received data from (standard switch behaviour). As the sending modem is distributing the packets over multiple ports from the same IP, the Virgin Media router will be making a huge amount of ARP updates to its ARP table.