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Originally Posted by General Maximus
Secondly, teamviewer isn't going to impact any speed test result at all. The test isn't testing the quality of your connection between 3 devices; the device you are establishing the remote connection on, your home pc and the speed test server. When you instruct your pc to run a speed test the pc will run the test between itself and a remote server and you will see the result fed back to you. The quality of your team viewer connection is irrelevant and defo will in no way impact the result. The worse that can happen will be a slight delay in it starting the test and you seeing the result when it finished due to the slow connection.
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Teamviewer will use a little bandwidth itself to deliver the screen, that's what the guy was referring to when he mentioned a small impact.
It will defo impact the result unless the packets are getting to his home from the remote office via another connection.
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Originally Posted by maatty
Also on another note, why does YouTube load from a Virgin Media server? I assume its a "cache"? Any videos that load from there servers buffer constantly.. I found this by doing trace routes on certain YouTube videos.
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Yes, Google Global Cache.
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Google Global Cache (GGC) enables your company to optimize network infrastructure costs associated with delivering Google and YouTube content to your users by serving this content from inside your network.
GGC is implemented as a set of servers deployed in your datacenter, remotely managed by Google. The number of servers deployed will depend on the bandwidth demands of your users and the number of locations at which you chose to install GGC nodes.
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Originally Posted by maatty
They did do a test yes. They found nothing wrong. I logged into my work machine remotely and we use 150Mb Virgin at work (my works is approx 10 miles from me) and the same issue happens there! Speeds were around 8 - 20Mbps it changes in that range a lot.
I think that confirms that it is indeed just congestion. I will phone Virgin again tonight when the Internet slows down again because they may not be aware of congestion somewhere along the network.
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Interesting. There is no way your work is going to be sharing any access network with your home at that distance, so the problem is either in a router chassis or a backhaul link, or there's coincidentally congestion on both optical nodes.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping might be useful. As I'm sure you're aware congestion will tend to show up as increased ping and jitter, especially if it's on the backhaul.