Speed Test

[Harry56]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

That's not bad for 10Meg

Agreed, it's not bad at half past eight in the morning but at half past eight in the evening it drops to about 1.5Mb!

[sstainer]

just done test here and wow
Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:04:23 UTC [10.05am uk]

1st 512K took 441 ms = 1161 KB/sec, approx 9567 Kbps, 9.34 Mbps
2nd 512K took 401 ms = 1276.8 KB/sec, approx 10521 Kbps, 10.27 Mbps
3rd 512K took 530 ms = 966 KB/sec, approx 7960 Kbps, 7.77 Mbps
4th 512K took 331 ms = 1546.8 KB/sec, approx 12746 Kbps, 12.45 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 10199 Kbps, 9.96 Mbps

Originally Posted by Harry56

Tonight (just now) I download an MP3 file and bearly got 1.3Mb!! To be honest paying £35 per month for 10Mb and getting a 1/10th of that speed when I use it the most is not worth the money so I'll be downgrading back to 4Mb tomorrow. I can't see how they [VM] can charge that much for a service they cannot guarantee. I know they say "up to" but surely there has to be a lower limit to make it fair on the customer. It's almost a license to print money!

H56

One thing if you was using p2p then you cnt guarentee top speed u will only get what other people can give you

[boodykaka]

4meg for me

297.2 kilobits per second
1MB file download 28.2 seconds
Subjective rating Mediocre

Tried 3 times

In my opinion it seem's that certain website's are being screened along with applications & protocol's

I have also had e-mail's not getting to me when subscribing to web sites

[banjo]

10 meg

[Harry56]

Can someone explain this to me [in layman's language]? Last evening around 8-9pm I tried 3 different 3 speed tests, two of them gave more or less the same results ~9 meg and the other less than 1meg!! Why the difference?

I also tried downloading an MP3 file from LBC's website and got less than 100kb/sec.

So why do 2 speed tests give similar values and the other a totally different one? Is there any definitive way to test what the speed is that you are getting at any particular time?

H56

[LaineY]

im on 10 meg and download @ 1200kbps SOLID off of newsgroups
from gamefiles i get an average of 1132
i ping the bbc @ 19-23 ms
im on the uddingston ubr up in scotland just outside glasgow..

roll on 20 meg! 2400kbps!

Guys.. i dont know what u use for speedtesting..
but to be honest the amount of calls i get from customers that are using
the standard www. speed tests etc are all TOTAL Crap!...

They are not even 50% accurate

i tend to find sometimes the best way to do a speedcheck is downloading windows media player from the microsoft website..

[dev]

Originally Posted by Harry56

Can someone explain this to me [in layman's language]? Last evening around 8-9pm I tried 3 different 3 speed tests, two of them gave more or less the same results ~9 meg and the other less than 1meg!! Why the difference?

I also tried downloading an MP3 file from LBC's website and got less than 100kb/sec.

So why do 2 speed tests give similar values and the other a totally different one? Is there any definitive way to test what the speed is that you are getting at any particular time?

H56

doing a speedtest to one site will only tell you your speed to that site, so it may be slower or faster than what you'll see elsewhere