Reliable Way Of Testing Speed? Maybe

[Jonathan90]

ok found this test which can test from multiple servers tcp and udp

seems to give my max speed so give it a try people post results.

[bmxbandit]

Something you forgot from the post...

Probably no more or less reliable than any other test - still plenty of uncontrollable factors in the middle.

[Angry@VMedia]

Dunno about a "reliable way" but it could get you STM'd quickly if you use this a lot!

As for a reliable test, I am on 10Mb and it hardly touched full 10Mb speeds, I max out my connection via newsgroups.

EDIT: download link HERE

[Jonathan90]

lol ye sorry forgot about that. no idea why its not as good for you,almost every speedtest comes out as 4 mb for me.

[Angry@VMedia]

Originally Posted by Jonathan90

lol ye sorry forgot about that why is it it will max my connection out then? no idea man speedtest are relaible for me. amost every speed test i've done came out as 4 mb

lol probably because they dont have the capacity or the file size to max out 10Mb, now I am not saying this IS the case, it is only 1 probable!

Admittedly I need to use around 5-6 threads to max out on newsgroups, but use the maximum of 32 for all my downloads, seems to work quite well too!
I sometimes feel a bit guilty for using 100% of my connection to download for around 1-2hrs a day, then i think sod it, I am paying for it, why not use it

Originally Posted by Angry@VMedia

As for a reliable test, I am on 10Mb and it hardly touched full 10Mb speeds, I max out my connection via newsgroups.

ive heard quite a lot of people say you can max out your speed by using newsgroups...how does this work can someone tell me please and is it free?

[RealDiamond]

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...mboupdate.html

just down load this big file. even in a normal web browser it hits 10M/s just in the browsers downloader in less than 4 secs. you may not like macs but Apples hosting for update files is brilliant.
+ every version of OSX has a built in activity monitor that shows how much network activity there is.

If you are a Virgin Media customer then the best speedtest is from the link below which is from a dedicated server within the Virgin Media network, hence the is no www. before the address.
Have you tried going to this link to check your speeds http://gamefiles.virginmedia.com/
click on blueyondergames>demos>then click on at least 2 large files and save them to your desktop, and then wait a couple of minutes then write down the transfer rates on the files that are running> times them by 8 and you will get a truer download speed.

[Angry@VMedia]

Originally Posted by i-Set

ive heard quite a lot of people say you can max out your speed by using newsgroups...how does this work can someone tell me please and is it free?

It works by using more than 1 connection for downloading, if I understand it rightly, it means it downloads more than 1 part of the file at once, thus maxing out your download speeds.

As for if it is free, it depends, if you use Virgin's own newsgroups then yes it is free!
Just google GrabIt, then when that is downloaded and installed, run it and set the server to: news.virginmedia.com and set the "maximum allowed connections" to whatever you want, as I say, 5-6 maxes out, but you can have upto 32 connections maximum!

[bmxbandit]

Originally Posted by whydoIneedatech

If you are a Virgin Media customer then the best speedtest is from the link below which is from a dedicated server within the Virgin Media network, hence the is no www. before the address.

So, http://bt.com/ is in the Virgin network too?

[Richy99]

why you need to use 32 i will never know, if anything it will slow the connection down a bit fue to the overheads it is using, you are better off just using the number of connections needed to fill the connection as you are just causing unnecessary strain on the srever and the connection

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Originally Posted by whydoIneedatech

If you are a Virgin Media customer then the best speedtest is from the link below which is from a dedicated server within the Virgin Media network, hence the is no www. before the address.
Have you tried going to this link to check your speeds http://gamefiles.virginmedia.com/
click on blueyondergames>demos>then click on at least 2 large files and save them to your desktop, and then wait a couple of minutes then write down the transfer rates on the files that are running> times them by 8 and you will get a truer download speed.

just means that the www isnt mapped to it not that its a dedicated server within the network

Originally Posted by bmxbandit

So, http://bt.com/ is in the Virgin network too?

I think thats within the BT network

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Originally Posted by Richy99

just means that the www isnt mapped to it not that its a dedicated server within the network

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

[Angry@VMedia]

Originally Posted by Richy99

why you need to use 32 i will never know, if anything it will slow the connection down a bit fue to the overheads it is using, you are better off just using the number of connections needed to fill the connection as you are just causing unnecessary strain on the srever and the connection

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

[Jonathan90]

don't want to be a noob but eny screenshots? plus i think they have enough bandwidth tbh its sweden lol they have serious connections over there

[altis]

Originally Posted by whydoIneedatech

If you are a Virgin Media customer then the best speedtest is from the link below which is from a dedicated server within the Virgin Media network...

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.