Re: Broadband speed testing...

[Andy Davies <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

What do the tests from the other speedtest locations show?

>From experience not all routes on speedtest give the same results!

Cheers

Andy


On 1 January 2013 16:56, Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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!
> >
> >
> >
> >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)?
> >
> >
> >
> >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
> >
> >
> >
> >Phil
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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