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Old 06-06-2008, 21:59   #45
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Re: [Merged] Broadband's faster future BBC check on Virgin Media Trials

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Originally Posted by markknell View Post
It was the BBC speed test which was the problem. There is always a weakest link from a to b in the internet and this time it was the BBC. The 50 Mbps trials have been sound. I performed this test earlier in the week and done it under 3 seconds but that was before the hype that the BBC generated.

In any case a 10 MB file is far to small to test 50 Mbps.
It wasn't so much the numbers, themselves, but that they allowed them to be broadcast like a good thing - as in, whomever did the script knew nothing about what 50 Mb/s speed should be & it still got passed through to the final take???
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