Speedtest software
 

Apologies if this has been mentioned before but there's a good speed tester available here:

Jack Dinn's Auto Speed Tester

On my link, at least, it consistently shows the full speed I'm provisioned for - Something that speedtest.net never did, no matter which server I selected...

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I second that - and not because the Ferret gets full speed!

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I see it uses the TBB 10MB test file - be interesting to see what speeds people get who can never get the TBB speedtest to report their full package speeds.

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Hi,

JDast does not use the TBB 10M file unless you have changed the configurations.

By default the download configurations should be set to use a multiple threaded download from all these servers (at the same time) and should therefore always "max out" your connection :-

http://london1.linode.com/100MB-london.bin,100
http://speedtest.tweak.nl/100mb.bin,100
http://download.thinkbroadband.com/100MB.zip,100
http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test,100


Cheers all :D,
JD.

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Ah - my quick glance through the settings lead me astray - I see it is greyed out...

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:D aye that top half is a different method of measuring "speed" , it measures the time taken to download a single file and calculates it from that but it was superseded by the measurement of actual throughput "the bottom half of the download configs" which is a much better way of doing it (for many reasons) and so is set as the default.

Good stuff :), thx.

Re: Speedtest software
 

JDast is a service to mankind.

Simples.

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To Meerkatkind ! :P

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Seems good :) thanks

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It can't test my upload speed for some reason?
/edit weird on third try it worked ...

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I sometimes get that on first use when turning JDast on. I've seen it once when the upstream was busy and reporting low speeds subsequently.

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if you have a problem with the upload giving an error "no data flowing after 3 seconds" (latest beta says 5 seconds as opposed to 3), then try increasing you upload setting "Clipping time". There is sometimes a delay before the upload data starts flowing and can "time out" (depending on individual system/setup). an increase of clipping time should allow more time for the data to start flowing before it starts testing the throughput.

Hope this helps.

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something not right here (100/10)

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1345675547

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EDIT:-
Sorry, are you saying jdast is giving incorrect results ? or am i completely at the wrong end of the stick. I try to help when problems crop up with it but reading your comment again im not 100% sure your saying that :-/

is this a default configuration ?

i assume you should be measuring 100Mb/s down and 10Mb/s up ?

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Yeah, the upstream is way out, it was measuring around the 20mb mark for most of the test

Here is another try

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1345718637

Compared with speedtest.net

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2012/08/9.png