100M : New BT speed broadband speed test

[Jayster]

Originally Posted by craigj2k12

it was never about speed, but your able to download a several gigabits providing you have the capacity and computer up to the job, discounting the fact that the superhub probably cant cope with more then 10 simultaneous connections yes, I see your point, but in modem mode, using a proper router, I would expect torrent downloading will always give far more accurate results than a speed test

Youve also got to remember, which has been mentioned before, VM dont provide the capacity to download at high speeds from everywhere, we all know London speedtest.net server gives better results from VM connections than say from maidenhead, however maidenhead can give results over 600mb from other ISPs, so its a VM problem not the servers fault. I expect every server in the UK on speedtest.net is way more than capable of measuring at 100mbit, the bottleneck lies somewhere with VM

This is all perfectly fine talking theoretically but in the real world things are much different.

[craigj2k12]

Originally Posted by Jayster

This is all perfectly fine talking theoretically but in the real world things are much different.

When I see your evidence I look forward to picking lookholes -

speedtest to london namesco
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1873993831.png

which was taken after closing utorrent, which I had open before:
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3771/torrentar.png

as you can see its running at 12.4MB/s (i.e. 99.2Mb) - a more accurate reading than the flash based test

[Jayster]

Originally Posted by craigj2k12

When I see your evidence I look forward to picking lookholes -

speedtest to london namesco
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1873993831.png

which was taken after closing utorrent, which I had open before:
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3771/torrentar.png

as you can see its running at 12.4MB/s (i.e. 99.2Mb) - a more accurate reading than the flash based test

Hows that real world? All I can see is the best case senario eg DHT turned off, no leechers, seedboxes, very small swarm etc.

I suppose my original point was moving away from using torrents for testing purposes, however another problem with that would be you can only do it off peak times.

[Chrysalis]

private trackers with a fast seed are fine for speedtesting. Obviously stuff like piratebay which hardly would have high seeds and filled with leechers wasnt tho, so it depends on the torrent been used.

Using http for speedtesting is bad, for the same reason I have posted before multiple times.

speedtest.net is fine in my view, just because it may get slower it doesnt mean its a bad result, its still accurately telling you there is congestion somewhere on route. The problem seems with speedtest is with 'some' anti virus's proxying the data generating duff results.

[craigj2k12]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

speedtest.net is fine in my view, just because it may get slower it doesnt mean its a bad result, its still accurately telling you there is congestion somewhere on route. The problem seems with speedtest is with 'some' anti virus's proxying the data generating duff results.

Thats what i was trying to say, most speedtest.net servers are capable of 500mbit plus, but sometimes VM lines are incapable of hitting 30-40, never mind the full 100. Thats a VM fault, just becuase you can hit full speed to one server doesnt mean there isnt a fault.

I cant remember the minimum requirements to be a speedtest.net server, but I remember them upping the capacity requirements not so long ago, so if you cant hit 100mbit to a UK server, then 9 times out of 10 its VM congestion

[thenry]

BT have added upload test and ping latency

[babis3g]

upgraded to 100 mb

ping at speedtest is between 6-15
and at broadbandMAX speedtester is up to 40...
pingtest web is between 16 - 14 and jitter 6-20

BT show me 70-100 ms ... hmmm


any other tried what ping is showing?

[qasdfdsaq]

It looks like the BT speedtester is showing your latency as the connection round trip time during the speed test.

Speedtest.net shows you your latency when you are not downloading anything.