Virgin Media reckons speedtests are still misleading

by Scott Bicheno on 11 March 2009, 12:40

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Here are some slides illustrating how the various sites fared at the three speeds Virgin Media offers.

 

 

 

 

We would like to know your experiences with the various speedtesting services out there; do you think Virgin Media has a point? Should there be more regulation of this sort of thing? Let us know in the HEXUS.community discussion forums.

 


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Posted by Singh400 - Wed 11 Mar 2009 13:35
I reckon Virgin Media are misleading

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Posted by shaithis - Wed 11 Mar 2009 13:36
Shame they don't show the speed tests of their service once the throttling kicks in :P
Posted by Tidus - Wed 11 Mar 2009 14:48
I agree that speedtests are misleading, my connection currently syncs at 17.5mb and after running a test on speedtest.net I was told I had a ping of 550 and a 6mb connection, I found broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk to be the most useful site showing my connection as 12.5mb down but the upload test was useless.

After testing my connection myself I managed to get a download of 1654KB/s off a server and 1.7MB/s from Torrents, my pings from gaming on my PS3 were around 30 on dedicated servers and 20 - 22 to websites like bbc.co.uk and google.com.

Speedtest sites should make people wait before the test starts then perform the test when they have more bandwidth to give acurate results, they also need to use larger files to test ADSL2 connections, the upload tests are over in a couple of seconds due to the size of the files transfered.

Some basic instructions before people start the test would be a good idea aswell, telling them to turn off any P2P applications or download services and recommend using a LAN cable rather than wireless, my wireless DL'd is very poor.
Posted by Singh400 - Wed 11 Mar 2009 14:52
ThinkBroand's test is the most accurate for one. Speedtest.net one is useless. Another good one is bbmax speed test.
Posted by moogle - Wed 11 Mar 2009 15:08
Singh400
ThinkBroand's test is the most accurate for one. Speedtest.net one is useless. Another good one is bbmax speed test.

bbmax = london speedtest.net server ;)

Just test on a multitude of servers to see the different speeds. Of course no 1 server is going to show you your full speeds but with a better connection you'd have higher speeds all round on all servers rather than one.

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