Re: Broadband speed testing...

[Pankaj Dhokia <ukha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've heard stories where Virgin have massive traffic shaping going on
but traffic to sites like speed test have high priority giving false hopes.

Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>Happy New Year all!
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>I'm sure that we're all aware of www.speedtest.net as a site that
>allows you
>to check your broadband speed but I've been having issues with my VM
>broadband connection for a while now and was wondering if anyone knew
>of any
>command line based alternatives to this that would allow me to - say -
>do a
>speedtest every so often and log the results (ideally on Windows)?
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>Basically my supposedly 60meg down / 6meg up connection seems to be
>typically be 4meg down / 2.8meg up so I'd like to try to keep an eye on
>it
>at regular intervals to try to build up a profile of whether it's time
>of
>day related (contention) or whether it's some sort of physical problem.
>I
>had a service call from Virgin Media yesterday and for a little while I
>was
>back up to 51-52meg but now back down to 2-5meg this morning. L
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>Phil
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