Reliable Way Of Testing Speed? Maybe

[Richy99]

Originally Posted by whydoIneedatech

I think thats within the BT network

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How do you work it out that it is not within the Virgin network then?

Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) Server at gamefiles.virginmedia.com Port 80

i never said it wasnt within the network!

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Originally Posted by Angry@VMedia

This is why I get my downloads from newsgroups at a whopping 1.24MegaBtes a second!

And I use 32 connections because I can!
Anyway this is getting a little off topic so I will leave it here

yes it but you will find tht just because you can use 32 connections that it is not always better

[dave6x]

I usually download from Newsgroups using 8 threads and connection usually maxes out at 1.2MB/s, but rarely see any more than 500-600KB/s on any speedtest often much less than that.

Interesting thing happened last night. Started a 1GB download in newsgroups, was only running at 700KB/s, disabled Avast On-Access Protection and speed went up to 1.2MB/s and remained at that level when I enabled Avast On-Access Protection again!

[Kymmy]

Newsgroups I can max out 6 connections at 1.2MBps and on speedtest.net I can always hit full speed.

The only time I get any slowdown is when someone is accessing my webserver

Kymmy

Originally Posted by altis

The Speed Test given at the head of this page runs from homepage.ntlworld.com which, I'm guessing, is hosted on the VM network too.

If you ring Virgin then the only speed test they will accept is the gamefiles one.

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Originally Posted by Richy99

i never said it wasnt within the network

Sorry for the way that posted, I was meaning to show that its a specific Server as you can see from the address, and that is its function.