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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
It is crap! For example, if I use their Maidenhead server I get a ridiculously low speed number. If I use their London server, I get a number consistent with what I feel I'm experiencing. If you can be bothered to trawl through this forum, you'll see much of this discussed,
I suppose it's not always crap - but inconsistency of objective report is pretty crappy.
Anyway, I'm trying to help you out not to make myself happy. For a long time I used two speed tests (one of themk speedtest.net) to validate each other. I concluded that speedtest.net was unreliable and for your convenience labelled that as "crap".
My main aim is to help you understand what could have changed to account for your experience. One of the reasons I asked to see your attentuation and SNR figures is to see whether there is something there to justify your reported speed.
Your neighbour's figures would be helpful too. If your figures are worse, there may be a problem at your BT incoming plate - or water in the overhead wire (I had that a few years ago before I took VM) and BT totally rewired the pole strung segments, sealed it nicely and I now get (on my spare O2 ADSL2+) 50% better throughput.
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I have always found it to be accurate and I get the same results as other websites, plus it looks nicer! Anyway, I'm no expert but I know speed tests aren't the same for everyone and your connection varies from the morning to late night, so there is no easy way to tell specially during peak times.
How do I figure out my
attenuation and
SNR figures?
Thanks.