[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by roughbeast

I disagree. I have never had a result above 34Mb on TBB either with my 50Mb or trial 200Mb connection. Usually it is far less. (Don't ask for more details, 'cos I ain't telling. We all know the trials exists don't we.)

TBB acknowledge that there are issues with the VM network and their test servers.

eg

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fib...eed-tests.html

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/tbb...the-creek.html



Here is a TBB test result done just now on my 200Mb connection. It is way, way, way below what I get on the reliable trial test server. (Can't show you that either.) The up speed result is also inaccurate.

I said that the TBB tester could handle 200Mbps and upwards without issues - there's nothing they can do if there's insufficient capacity between them and VM. The issues with the TBB tester and VM customers are due to a lack of bandwidth on the VM side of the link to TBB. This doesn't just affect TBB it's actually to one of the LINX LANs.

In the items you copy/pasted you'll note that it's clearly stated the issues are with VM, not TBB....

VM has some routing issues to our servers, it has been pointed out to them, but looks like they've not implemented the fix yet

There are some known congestion issues with one ISP and the route often used to reach us, it is beyond our control, but we did investigate and report a solution they could use.

Guess who the ISP is?

Also the guy on the Post Office service's issue with the tester was transient - TBB did nothing and it fixed itself. Probably a problem on the BT Wholesale network.

If you're on the 20 or 50Mbit variations of the 200M trial I can also easily believe that there are inaccuracies upstream - to get an accurate upstream speed requires a reasonably functional downstream path.