RE: Broadband speed testing...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ahhh well I know that I haven't been "traffic shaped" for at
least 18 months
and given that this:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2406809105.png

Is one of my speed tests from today then if they are prioritising speedtest
traffic then they're not doing very well!

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Pankaj Dhokia
Sent: 01 January 2013 16:47
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Broadband speed testing...

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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