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Originally Posted by hughesdecorator
Hi Nikesh,
Thanks for that.
I did just try it , getting 3.5 on average which I suppose at this time of night isn't too bad.
How independant is the speed test. Might sound cheeky this but I often wonder who provides these things?
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We do. The test is run from Virgin's public webserver, on Paul M's webspace on there.
Apart from having some contacts within Virgin for resolution of Customer problems, we are totally independant of Virgin, and the site was originally funded by the admin team (with donations from some members), and is now funded by Google Ads.
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Originally Posted by Illuminist
Speed-tests are unreliable.
...Download off a correclty working HTTP server and see where you transfer rate settles to. ...Its as simple as that.
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However, if the connection is slow, you don't know whether the problem is on your end, somewhere within the Virgin network (either way, you or Virgin may be able to resolve it) or on the server end (in which case, you probably won't). This problem also applies to web-based speed test.
Dan Elwill's doesn't suffer as badly from this as it performs various tests on various servers.