Thread: Virgins 20MB is excellent..
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Old 27-07-2007, 12:01   #35
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Re: Virgins 20MB is excellent..
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Originally Posted by Daffy Duck View Post
The speedtest sites are not fine....i can get full speed from http.I test that by normally d/loading the latest graphics driver from ATI.I use leechget and get full speeds there as well so it's not just nntp.I also get full speed if i d/load anything from Microsoft as well.So...two companies with fat pipes give me full speed on http.....speed test sites don't......can you see a pattern emerging here......the speedtest sites will have nowhere near the capacity of either of those two companies and it's pot luck whether they're too busy to be able to give you full speed when you connect or not.
Why do you think VM support ask you to d/load 4 files simultaneously from their server to test your connection......just to **** you about or something,it's not,it's because they know that speedtest sites are unreliable.
100% Agreed! Good post.

Internet speeds are not only affected by your service provider - the upload links of websites you visit will also affect how fast the connection appears to be.
You cannot say that speedtest sites are 100% reliable, the same as no-one in the world can have a 100% reliability factor! Of course they aren't reliable. The amount of traffic that is accessing the site will affect the speeds, the amount of available upload bandwidth will also affect how fast it appears to be. I can tell you (as a trained cisco network technician) that www.speedtest.net is absolutely shocking at times, and the "logic" that some of you guys produce is rubbish.

Sometimes it will work fine - no problems there, but most of the time it gives me speedtest results of 8meg on a 20meg connection. As soon as its finished testing, I would initiate a download from lfs.net of a 118mb file, and its downloading at 2.2MB/s constantly and completely reliably, so how can you have the cheek/nerve to come on here and say speedtest sites are the true speed of your connection? I suggest you go back and research, then you will find out there are many more factors affecting your speed, rather than "VM are crap because speedtest.net says its slow".

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Nick
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