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Originally Posted by Daffy Duck
I just used the broadbandmax speedtest and got just under 8megs......i then loaded up Newsbin Pro and updated headers and got 18.5 megs.....add overheads and thats my full 20 meg.This speedtest sites are so inconsistent and unreliable that it's not worth taking much notice of them really.
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But can't you see that is totally meaningless ? What the heck does it matter if you can get 18.5 megs over nntp if http downloads are only 8meg ? Many people don't use nntp, most only care about http so the only relevant test is the speed tests.
There seems to be this fallacy that the speed test sites are inconsistent. Actually no, the sites are fine, it's VMs network which is at fault. You want to see what a proper 20mb connection should look like ?
(and that's at peak time on my work network). Not exactly shabby for a speed test site which is "inconsistent".
Run that same test from my home connection and I'd be getting 4mb max on a "20mb" connection.
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Originally Posted by Daffy Duck
I wonder how many people (and this isn't aimed at anyone ) who are complaing about poor speeds only ever test using these sites and if they tested getting a largish file of Microsoft, or anyone else with a fast server and plenty of capacity ,would see totally different figures.
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This is the point, speedtest.net does have plenty of capacity. It's VMs peering or packet shaping or some other fault with VM's network which is slowing it down. So what if you can get 20mbit over nntp. Most people don't care. They care about real world day to day surfing and rarely if ever do I see the same speeds at home (20mb) that I do at work (20mb).