Speed tester

[gadge]

Whats the best speed testers for virgin broadband besides speed test.net?.

[Kymmy]

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

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and http://www.speed.io/index_en.html

[pip08456]

Unless you are on a 50Mb connection then use speedtest.net.

[v0id]

http://www.virginmedia.com/customers/speedtesters/ ;)

[Peter_]

Whats the best speed testers for virgin broadband besides speed test.net?.
This the only speed test site that I use on any call none of the others will be taken into account by our 2nd line agents as they cannot vouch for their accuracy.

http://www.virginmedia.com/testmyspeed/manual.php

[RainmakerRaw]

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/ is usually very accurate for 50 meg lines, as is http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/

I've found both to be consistently accurate, and they're quick and easy to use too.

[Peter_]

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/ is usually very accurate for 50 meg lines, as is http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/

I've found both to be consistently accurate, and they're quick and easy to use too.
As I said above they will always be dismissed by us as a measurement of your speed.;)

[Kymmy]

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/414/virgin-media-tests-the-testers

Might be 20 months old but should still be relevant

[gadge]

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/414/virgin-media-tests-the-testers

Might be 20 months old but should still be relevant

I have used speednet.test a few time and always seem to get better result from london than manchester and the latter is closer 50 miles.

[RainmakerRaw]

As I said above they will always be dismissed by us as a measurement of your speed.;)

But the OP asked which are the best, not which ones do VM accept. ;)

[Peter_]

But the OP asked which are the best, not which ones do VM accept. ;)
The one we use is obviously the best as it is on our own internal network and not via the internet .;)

[Placemat]

Has anyone heard of www.updn.co.uk

This is one that the faults department told me to use. Seems pretty accurate and it works on the same principle of downloading a file from the Virgin Media server.

Still downloading from the blueyonder demo folder still gives the most accurate results.

[zer0]

http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk gives me the most accurate results (got my full 10mbit)

20 seconds after www.updn.co.uk (http://www.updn.co.uk/) only gave me 7mbit

my speedtest.net graph is quite the mountain range
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2010/08/72.jpg

id like to see VM improve their routing to other countries so we dont have to keep taking these local speedtests to see what the problem is

[bomber_g]

are you having a trouble with something?

A lot of the time people start speedtesting their connection when something isn't working - there are a lot of people on this forum that can help with any issues your having

[Kymmy]

The one we use is obviously the best as it is on our own internal network and not via the internet .;)

Not really, unless you yourself have done an extensive experiment then all you're doing is repreating what the CS/TS group have been told ;) .. Even the link I posted has VM detailing external speed tests (they also measure ping and upload) instead of the VM purely download test

[Peter_]

Not really, unless you yourself have done an extensive experiment then all you're doing is repreating what the CS/TS group have been told ;) .. Even the link I posted has VM detailing external speed tests (they also measure ping and upload) instead of the VM purely download test
On a call we use the link I posted and it is expected to be used for our diagnostics by our 2nd line due to it being more stable and accurate, and if we say that another site was used we are told to check again using that site to see if what they can see on the uBR is the same as what the customer is getting.

[Jayster]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/diagnostics
Although lacking a upload and latency test its running on the bbc servers so what can i say?

[Bikemad]

The download speed on my 10 meg broadband is very inconsistent and I get impossibly fast results sometimes when I check it:

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2010/08/25.png https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2010/08/26.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

speedtest.bbmax.co.uk test results (http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/results.php?t=1281660955&v=10618311)

I installed a new modem yesterday and although it appears to have made some improvement, I occasionally struggle to open web pages and pictures can sometimes appear almost line by line instead of instantly.

Anyone else ever had this problem?

[Placemat]

I personally wouldn't trust the Maidenhead speedtest.net server. I live less than 2 miles from the server yet it only ever measures my connection as 10Mbit/s, half the rate at which it is actually running (I have a 20Mbit/s connection.)

[bayonet]

I get that issue with speedtest.net you can use 3 different servers and get 3 very different results try this website www.fuller.zen.co.uk/test it's quite safe use the 100 meg file either one will do and check the transfer rate

[Bikemad]

I personally wouldn't trust the Maidenhead speedtest.net server. I live less than 2 miles from the server yet it only ever measures my connection as 10Mbit/s, half the rate at which it is actually running (I have a 20Mbit/s connection.)

I used Maidenhead because it was the recommended server, but other servers produce similar results:
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2010/08/19.png (http://www.speedtest.net) https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2010/08/20.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

I even tried another test site and got this:

http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/results/44063561.png (http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk)

I think I may have found the reason for the unusual speed test results:
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2010/08/21.png (http://www.speedtest.net) https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2010/08/22.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
Unrealistic test results obtained by using Google Chrome Browser.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2010/08/23.png (http://www.speedtest.net) https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2010/08/24.png (http://www.speedtest.net)http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/results/44066641.png (http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk)
Realistic test results were obtained by using Internet Explorer Browser.

So it looks like I won't be using Google Chrome for speed testing from now on!

[Bikemad]

try this website www.fuller.zen.co.uk/test it's quite safe use the 100 meg file either one will do and check the transfer rate


I get approximately 1200KB/s (Took around 86 seconds for the 100MB file to download) for Google Chrome and Internet Explorer, which is probably about right for a 10Mb/s connection.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[bayonet]

Yep mine' comes in at 2.2 to 2.3 Mbps as I'm on 20 meg