My best ever results currently are from Lancaster (as per my sig), and all the Paris ones - in fact all the France ones came out better than most of the UK ones.
Paris gave me 115-138 down and 75-127 up, which in itself is quite variable but I only did two tests. Massy was actually better - 210 down, 226 up. There seem to be two "classes" of speedtest servers - dunno if it's related to them using different IP settings (e.g. large windows), but they either give me ~20-40mbps upload results or 150+ with nothing in-between.
In fact, on some platforms (Win7x64) running the same test to the same server in IE could give me 200mbps upload but in Firefox only 40mbps, yet the same downstream result. Odd!
In case anyone's interested I decided to speedtest all* of speedtest.net's servers.
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*By "all" I don't actually mean all. I'm adopting VM's fairly loose interpretation of "all", "everyone" and "unlimited". I actually just did the UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark and Luxembourg.
The results are below. They should really be taken as an sorted list, rather than absolute quality ratings.
I only did one test on most of them, under one condition at one time. Conditions may not reflect any particular situation on the VM network It gives us an idea of the relative speed capabilities of each server. The "Yes/No" columns are based solely on my opinion of their suitability for testing each tier.
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Group 1 - Superfast uploads - Great if you have a symmetric line, fibre, etc.
Apart from a few with consistency issues, they're all good for 100mb+
Server Country Download Upload Ping 20/30mb 50/60mb 100/120mb
Lancaster UK 520.7 278.9 5 Yes Yes Yes
Luxembourg LU 304.8 226.9 18 Yes Yes
Massy FR 297.2 225.4 21 Yes Yes Yes
Manchester UK 246.2 158.8 11 Yes Yes Yes
Contern LU 235.4 211.0 19 Yes Yes Yes
Naaldwijk NL 220.6 161.0 25 Yes Yes Yes
Malmo DK 207.8 149.1 34 Yes Yes Yes
Merzig LU 196.8 157.2 31 Yes Yes Yes
Steinsel LU 196.7 228.2 19 Yes Yes Yes
Mechelen BE 192.9 182.6 27 Yes Yes Yes
Alkmaar NL 184.9 160.5 26 Yes Yes Yes
Clichy FR 183.4 190.1 19 Yes Yes Yes
Eindhoven NL 167.7 170.8 28 Yes Yes Yes
Bonneville FR 163.5 160.2 30 Yes Yes Yes
Aubervilliers FR 158.9 211.6 21 Yes Yes Yes
Paris FR 115.3 127.5 22 Yes Yes
Lyon FR 106.3 175.5 30 Yes Yes
Dronten NL 89.5 194.5 19 Yes
Copenhagen DK 66.5 154.9 36 Yes
Group 2 - Standard uploads. Fine for cable.
I'd be careful if you have 10mbps+ UL Infinity or other FTTx
Server Country Download Upload Ping 20/30mb 50/60mb 100/120mb
Cappelle Ij NL 364.5 36.4 21 Yes Yes Yes
Maidstone UK 277.8 57.6 11 Yes Yes Yes
Kingston UH UK 262.0 36.9 20 Yes Yes Yes
Rotterdam Qweb NL 248.5 51.5 20 Yes Yes Yes
Capelle NL 243.2 51.5 31 Yes Yes Yes
Roubaix FR 205.7 46.2 15 Yes Yes
Randers DK 188.3 54.3 39 Yes Yes Yes
Bournemouth UK 167.4 26.2 13 Yes Yes Yes
Veendam NL 167.2 16.6 22 Yes Yes
London UK 138.0 36.7 11 Yes Yes Yes
Dublin Eircom IE 137.7 16.6 30 Yes Yes
Ashford UK 128.3 42.3 12 Yes Yes
Sittingbourne UK 123.0 51.2 12 Yes Yes
Dublin Vodafone IE 98.5 16.5 26 Yes Yes
Amsterdam NL 96.5 30.9 23 Yes Yes
Liverpool UK 94.9 27.4 25 Yes Yes
Gloucester UK 94.9 27.1 25 Yes Yes
Dublin Digiweb IE 94.8 26.2 25 Yes Yes
Newbury UK 94.4 20.0 19 Yes Yes
Norwich UK 87.1 26.7 21 Yes Yes
Limerick IE 83.5 22.1 26 Yes Yes
Galway IE 81.4 30.2 23 Yes
Leeds UK 80.7 14.5 21 Yes
Skipton UK 64.9 20.2 25 Yes
Birmingham UK 64.4 30.0 21 Yes
Coventry UK 63.9 72.7 11 Yes
Rotterdam Luna NL 63.0 32.7 25 Yes
Guernsey UK 58.7 18.2 25 Yes
Brussels BE 57.3 61.8 22 Yes
Utrecht NL 55.2 25.2 36 Yes
Aberdeen UK 54.6 11.8 33 Yes
Group 3 - Epic fail servers. Crap at just about everything.
Probably best avoided for anything until they'e fixed.
Server Country Download Upload Ping 20/30mb 50/60mb 100/120mb
Canterbury UK 46.3 12.9 14 FAIL FAIL FAIL
Dundalk IE 36.5 8.5 25 FAIL FAIL FAIL
Arnhem NL 33.0 57.7 25 FAIL FAIL FAIL
Derry NI 28.8 23.6 25 FAIL FAIL FAIL
Some day I might get round to doing automated tests (e.g. 10+ per server) and working out some standard deviations to estimate stability. But not till I get my own connection stable.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
When I am able to get full speed which is 30mbit on my quad core i5 it can use about 20% cpu power.
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Curious. I hit about 40% on my dual-core i7 (laptop) but only at 300mbps+. Given that an older 3Ghz Core 2 Duo has no issues exceeding 500mbps+ on Speedtest.net, I wouldn't say CPU is an issue.