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Brilliant, VM have customers blaming speedtest.net for subpar peering.
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So, are we stuck with congestion issues? Or are there plans in every area to improve it?
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Virgin should offer this as their speeds are so quick that most speed tests do not keep up. Only usenet does for me. |
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On the contrary, when Speedtest.net servers hosted on VM's network deliver 25mbps to VM's own customers but over 200mbps to everyone else that suggests it's VM's own capacity that can't keep up.
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Have you tried the Speedtest.net NAMESCO server in London? This performs very consistently for me at 100 miles. Not all servers work well despite what the numbers on the speed dial suggest. https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/05/31.png |
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Obviously if the specific server you are trying to access is congested or on a poor link it doesn't matter how fast you ISP is but what is increasingly being reported is that many of the speedtest.net servers don't deliver high speeds to VM customers but do when tested from known good connections such as universities. If you do succeed in getting good speeds from some sources then all that rules out is local congestion at that specific time and the peering to that specific source. |
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It's not an oversimplification, it's in the SLAs of Leased Line contracts.
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Given his reputation, probably not.
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People who buy leased lines for hundreds, sometimes thousands of pounds a month only get bandwidth guaranteed to their ISP's network. So the point (as should be obvious from the post I was replying to!) is that if Virgin hosted their own speed test they could then offer more accurate speed tests.
I know speed test is rubbish for me. I get full bandwidth on torrents and usenet but not on speedtest.net. If I didn't have access to usenet/torrents I'd be moaning that I'm not getting the speed I paid for just like alot of VM users do. |
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Really you don't need that test. This one is just as consistent. http://www.speedtester.bt.com/beta/speedtest-remote.jsp |
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Where the line is primarily for internet access then there will virtually certainly be something in the contract about peering - otherwise what's to stop them only having a 10Mbps VM line to access the internet? It won't happen. That is why I said you can't simply judge by the speed of your connection to your ISP - unless of course all you want to do is look at their billing pages etc. |
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