getting 56k speed for 300k broadband

For some reason broadband has died here, surfing normal web and running numion speedtest gives me 50k result but robin walker and dan elwell's speedtest give correct 280-300k result, appreciate any info to assist.

[th'engineer]

Originally Posted by tony

For some reason broadband has died here, surfing normal web and running numion speedtest gives me 50k result but robin walker and dan elwell's speedtest give correct 280-300k result, appreciate any info to assist.

It can be that the numion servers are busy or the route to them is busy.

if dan elwoods says it is working would stick with that and not worry

You misunderstand, access to ALL websites is slowwww, 56k ish, which is why i run the numion test, the problem is related to recent work done at cwmbwrla, as now i notice that a proxy is specified when using "what`s my proxy".
Funny how every time work is done to upgrade i end up with a downgrade.
Gonna try a different proxy to see if there`s a difference.

[Chris W]

do you have a link for the nominum speed test that you have run pls?

http://www.numion.com/ for speedtest.

I have just set up cardiff proxy and all runs smoothly again so the problem is definitely the swansea proxy.

[ian@huth]

I find numion regularly gives results lower than most other speed tests

I find numion gives real world surfing speeds as opposed to the actual speed of connection given by walker etc which bypass proxy settings.
Use walker/elwell for testing connection and numion for testing surfing speeds locally or worldwide, run numion for at least a minute to even out results.

[ian@huth]

Numion is supposed to give you your surfing speed but does not do this accurately as it bypasses caches which may supply the requested images more quickly than going to the actual site.

Well in respect of my original post numion gave result of 50k ish whilst walker etc gave result of 300k ish, actual speed of surfing WAS 50k ish due to poxy swansea proxy that has recently been allocated to me, specifying cardiff proxy returns surf speeds to normal ish of 240-280k via numion test

Just to illustrate the Swansea proxy speeds using numion.

cache 1 - 16,861 Bps 135 kbps
cache 2 - 19,600 Bps 157 kbps
cache 3 - 17,065 Bps 137 kbps
cache 4 - 11,093 Bps 89 kbps
cache 5 - 3,111 Bps 25 kbps, this is the allocated cache.
cache 6 - 7,472 Bps 60 kbps
cache 7 - 17,545 Bps 140 kbps
cache 8 - 18,975 Bps 152 kbps

using cardiff cache 1 - 29,109 Bps 233 kbps
Explains it well i think.

[th'engineer]

this looks like a job for Ignition to sort out

Tried tech support but after the obligatory wait got the usual story, connection ok so it must be your OS/settings/ie cache/ etc etc.
Don`t know why i bothered.

[Ignition]

cache 5 - 3,111 Bps 25 kbps, this is the allocated cache. << What allocated cache is that sir? Cache in use changes depending on IP address you are visiting.

I loathe Numion with an extreme passion. I also don't do fixing caches, sorry. However I find it highly unlikely that Swansea's 8 caches are all suffering a fault, either something else wrong or numion being a numpty.

You also forgot to mention WHICH test on Numion you were using.

On my 2Mbit ADSL doing the UK test, 41 frames, I score 26241 bytes per second (Bps), or 210 kilobits per second (kbps)

when i select "what`s my proxy" i get the following answer:
You are using the `swan-cache5. server.ntli.net` proxy server.
I assumed that that meant that swan cache 5 is the cache that i was using, ie allocated.
Until recent upgrades at cwmbwrla whenever i checked `What`s my proxy` i got the answer that i apparently did not use a proxy and all worked ok.
I use the numion world test and uk test set to run for a minute in order to even out results, i ran the world test 8 times, resetting proxy each time to each of the 8 consecutive swan proxies and thus received the results posted.
I then ran the test again with same settings but with cardiff proxy specified and the result is obvious.
If i were to reset to no specified proxy i would be unable to use the internet due to the slowwwww speed, at present i am using cardiff proxy with no problems.
Therefore the only logical conclusion that i can make is the one stated in earlier post.
I cannot see any other explanation but am open to sensible suggestions.

[BBKing]

I assumed that that meant that swan cache 5 is the cache that i was using, ie allocated.

It's the proxy that, for your local area, serves the "what`s my proxy" website, if indeed that is a website. Other website will be served by other proxies, you aren't 'allocated' one per se.