Speed tester
 

Whats the best speed testers for virgin broadband besides speed test.net?.

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http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

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and http://www.speed.io/index_en.html

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Unless you are on a 50Mb connection then use speedtest.net.

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http://www.virginmedia.com/customers/speedtesters/ ;)

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This the only speed test site that I use on any call none of the others will be taken into account by our 2nd line agents as they cannot vouch for their accuracy.

http://www.virginmedia.com/testmyspeed/manual.php

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http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/ is usually very accurate for 50 meg lines, as is http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/

I've found both to be consistently accurate, and they're quick and easy to use too.

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As I said above they will always be dismissed by us as a measurement of your speed.;)

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http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/...ts-the-testers

Might be 20 months old but should still be relevant

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I have used speednet.test a few time and always seem to get better result from london than manchester and the latter is closer 50 miles.

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But the OP asked which are the best, not which ones do VM accept. ;)

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The one we use is obviously the best as it is on our own internal network and not via the internet .;)

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Has anyone heard of www.updn.co.uk

This is one that the faults department told me to use. Seems pretty accurate and it works on the same principle of downloading a file from the Virgin Media server.

Still downloading from the blueyonder demo folder still gives the most accurate results.

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http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk gives me the most accurate results (got my full 10mbit)

20 seconds after www.updn.co.uk only gave me 7mbit

my speedtest.net graph is quite the mountain range
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/08/72.jpg

id like to see VM improve their routing to other countries so we dont have to keep taking these local speedtests to see what the problem is

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are you having a trouble with something?

A lot of the time people start speedtesting their connection when something isn't working - there are a lot of people on this forum that can help with any issues your having

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Not really, unless you yourself have done an extensive experiment then all you're doing is repreating what the CS/TS group have been told ;) .. Even the link I posted has VM detailing external speed tests (they also measure ping and upload) instead of the VM purely download test