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CPCUK · 18-01-2012, 15:40

Basically, I havent actually changed anything on my pc to get a good result.

I used to use London test server all the time when on 20mbit and that showed full speed. Then on 50mbit it was fine (showed 50Mbit) until I'm sure speedtest.net changed its site design (may be just me though) and I could only achieve 30Mbit results. It also depended on ping. If ping was over 25ms I got a good score and if under that it would suck! Strangely.

Lancaster I think was the 2nd furthest speedtest.net UK server from me yet gives great results (nice routing maybe?).

This just goes to show the potential for many customers to complain about their VM broadband speeds when it could be perfectly fine. Of course some connections do have issues. What is needed is a 100% reliable speedtest site / server and not some random speed one which can only confuse the poor guy testing his speed.

The only really reliable test is to use multiple downloads to max the advertised connection speeds and see what you actually obtain.

18-01-2012, 15:40	#19
CPCUK Inactive Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 16	Re: Q regarding channel ID, power and speeds Basically, I havent actually changed anything on my pc to get a good result. I used to use London test server all the time when on 20mbit and that showed full speed. Then on 50mbit it was fine (showed 50Mbit) until I'm sure speedtest.net changed its site design (may be just me though) and I could only achieve 30Mbit results. It also depended on ping. If ping was over 25ms I got a good score and if under that it would suck! Strangely. Lancaster I think was the 2nd furthest speedtest.net UK server from me yet gives great results (nice routing maybe?). This just goes to show the potential for many customers to complain about their VM broadband speeds when it could be perfectly fine. Of course some connections do have issues. What is needed is a 100% reliable speedtest site / server and not some random speed one which can only confuse the poor guy testing his speed. The only really reliable test is to use multiple downloads to max the advertised connection speeds and see what you actually obtain.