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Old 30-03-2012, 12:33   #1
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New BT speed broadband speed test

This is for download only, sorry no upload.

I was showing 50-60Mb on speedtest.net, showing a more accurate 96Mb here. A guy on the virgin 100Mb forum posted it, so cheers to him.

http://www.speedtester.bt.com/beta/speedtest-remote.jsp

*can a mod edit the first 'speed' out of the thread title, makes more sense, ta.
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Old 30-03-2012, 13:37   #2
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Re: New BT speed broadband speed test

On all the other speed test sites i normally get 46MB but this site is showing 49.70MB.

Don't know how accurate this is till other members do a speed test
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Old 30-03-2012, 13:43   #3
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Re: New BT speed broadband speed test

i got between 107.59 - 109.60Mbps
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Re: New BT speed broadband speed test

62+ on 60 Mbit here.
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Old 30-03-2012, 14:31   #5
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Re: New BT speed broadband speed test

It gives me 104.70 about the same as speedtest.net
Thanks for posting this jimexbox, always good to have another tester.
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Re: New BT speed broadband speed test

i got 50.54 then 50.35 on the BT one
speedtest.net gave me a 50.33 and 50.33
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Old 31-03-2012, 11:17   #7
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Re: New BT speed broadband speed test

Gives me 56.11 MBit while I'm on 50Mbit and rate-limited lower than that. (and also while there is other internet traffic going through the service).

I think the results are a bit over-optimistic.
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Old 31-03-2012, 12:11   #9
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Re: New BT speed broadband speed test

It gives me 67.19 on my 60mb connection wired. It would appear to be a bit on the high side.
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Re: New BT speed broadband speed test

Gave me 76.76 on a 100mb line. Im Wireless N connected, 8ft from the box.
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Re: New BT speed broadband speed test

hi all
new here & new with virgin
was with fttc via TT but moving house no fttc at the moment so VM
(PS: i prefer fttc)
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i am with 30 mbps package
it shows 32 with speedtest and BT shows 34
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Re: New BT speed broadband speed test

Has anyone tried the numion.com speed test?

I'm on 30Mb and both speedtest.net and the BT one say I'm getting over 30 but Numion shows a "real world" download speed of 2.3Mb (less than the upload speed).
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Re: New BT speed broadband speed test

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Has anyone tried the numion.com speed test?

I'm on 30Mb and both speedtest.net and the BT one say I'm getting over 30 but Numion shows a "real world" download speed of 2.3Mb (less than the upload speed).
What do you get in real world downloads? Speed tests are fine and good but they aren't to be relied on as it depends on so many factors like how many people are testing it, how close is the speed test to your location etc etc.

So I would say if your connection feels fine and you get good speed downloading real files is the main thing not what a speedtester says.
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Re: New BT speed broadband speed test

i just had a go with numion.com

it says my download speed is 1,012 kb(126.52 kilobits a second)
after 30 seconds of the test via numion ... i started to download a 330 MB file from you tube
my network meter program started to count about (less more) 450 kBs (kilobytes)
450 kilobytes are 3686.4 kilobits

network meter is counting real measures so my download is almost same as my upload
i still dont think i am close to the XL 30 package but i dont belive numion ... unless the server was tested was out of the UK...but seems very close in reality download speeds

it took me about 15 minutes to download the file and about 15 minutes to upload back at you tube
that means is a way far a 30mb download speed

if was real 30 mb should download in 3 minutes??? the 330MB file
hmmmmm.....


EDIT

i downloaded just now from gamershell.com
(what virgin reccoments in their forums for real test download speed http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...st/td-p/889075) ....
a 256MB file and took less than a minute with network meter touching 3.300 MB = 27033.6 kilobits ... so XL 30 is real and numio has problem
you tube is slow server as well (at least from the link downloaded the file)
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Re: New BT speed broadband speed test

Got exactly 104.43Mb on 3 consecutive tests. Varied between 67Mb and 108Mb during the test. More consistent than speedtest.net so far.

No doubt someone will say the ttb test is more accurate even though it gives me an average of 27Mb.

Yeah! I know these tests aren't meant to be indicative of anything. "Why bother", I say if your connection is doing what you want it to do.
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