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tweetiepooh · 26-01-2006, 15:03

It's been alluded to before and it's worth restating but downloads of 512kB are just too small to get accurate figures for 10M, probably even for 3M. I mean at 5M you are looking at subsecond times. A small glitch in a router or something could have an extraordinary effect on that sort of number.

Get a better feel by downloading something substantial, multiple megabytes, from a well mirrored, well connected server. gcc from sunfreeware mirrors is around 100M and will let the connection settle and will give better figures. It will be somewhat lower if everyone does it at same time so use as an example only.

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tweetiepooh Virgin Media Employee Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Winchester Services: Staff MyRates BB: VM 1Gb TV: VM XL Phone : VM XL Posts: 3,389	*Re: ALL* ntl 10Mb Discussion (Part 3)** It's been alluded to before and it's worth restating but downloads of 512kB are just too small to get accurate figures for 10M, probably even for 3M. I mean at 5M you are looking at subsecond times. A small glitch in a router or something could have an extraordinary effect on that sort of number. Get a better feel by downloading something substantial, multiple megabytes, from a well mirrored, well connected server. gcc from sunfreeware mirrors is around 100M and will let the connection settle and will give better figures. It will be somewhat lower if everyone does it at same time so use as an example only.