My VM connection has been worse than usual of late and I've been testing 
the speed. However I have used two site with widely varying results and 
wondered what is a reliable test. Speedtest.net has just given a speed 
of 2.24Meg while thinkbroadband.com gave .5Meg. My feeling is that 
neither is correct. Any thoughts?

BTW Over the weekend the connection was so bad that speedtest failed to 
complete!!!!! Anyone know of a good ISP or does such a thing not exist.

Alec

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> My VM connection has been worse than usual of late and I've been testing 
> the speed. However I have used two site with widely varying results and 
> wondered what is a reliable test. Speedtest.net has just given a speed of 
> 2.24Meg while thinkbroadband.com gave .5Meg. My feeling is that neither is 
> correct. Any thoughts?
>
> BTW Over the weekend the connection was so bad that speedtest failed to 
> complete!!!!! Anyone know of a good ISP or does such a thing not exist.
>
> Alec

I usually use Speedtest.net which gives me fairly consistent, but crap, 
results for my Virgin broadband.   It's a bit odd that two different speed 
testers should give such widely different readings.   Have you carried out 
multiple tests with just one tester, say Speedtest.net, during a period of a 
couple of hours?  If this gives wild variations in readings from test to 
test, I'd start to suspect that you may have an intermittent connection due 
to dust or oxidisation of contacts somewhere between the phone master socket 
and your computer.

I regularly unplug all connections and lightly spray with a switch cleaner 
like Servisol, making and breaking the connection several times as the 
cleaner naturally evaporates.

-- 
Dave (Sgt. Pepper)       Epsom, England
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    "I will not tolerate intolerance ... Doh!!"

Dave (Sgt. Pepper) wrote:
>
> I usually use Speedtest.net which gives me fairly consistent, but crap, 
> results for my Virgin broadband.   It's a bit odd that two different 
> speed testers should give such widely different readings.   Have you 
> carried out multiple tests with just one tester, say Speedtest.net, 
> during a period of a couple of hours?  If this gives wild variations in 
> readings from test to test, I'd start to suspect that you may have an 
> intermittent connection due to dust or oxidisation of contacts somewhere 
> between the phone master socket and your computer.
> 
> I regularly unplug all connections and lightly spray with a switch 
> cleaner like Servisol, making and breaking the connection several times 
> as the cleaner naturally evaporates.
> 

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Oddly things have been working normally 
today so what was going on I don't know. I have often found the two 
speedtesters differ and as thinkbroadband requires java I guess it uses 
a different method.

Alec

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:13:33 +0100, bill@hotmail.com wrote:

>Dave (Sgt. Pepper) wrote:
>>
>> I usually use Speedtest.net which gives me fairly consistent, but crap, 
>> results for my Virgin broadband.   It's a bit odd that two different 
>> speed testers should give such widely different readings.   Have you 
>> carried out multiple tests with just one tester, say Speedtest.net, 
>> during a period of a couple of hours?  If this gives wild variations in 
>> readings from test to test, I'd start to suspect that you may have an 
>> intermittent connection due to dust or oxidisation of contacts somewhere 
>> between the phone master socket and your computer.
>> 
>> I regularly unplug all connections and lightly spray with a switch 
>> cleaner like Servisol, making and breaking the connection several times 
>> as the cleaner naturally evaporates.
>> 
>
>Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Oddly things have been working normally 
>today so what was going on I don't know. I have often found the two 
>speedtesters differ and as thinkbroadband requires java I guess it uses 
>a different method.
>
>Alec

You are right, guys.  The two speedtests vary greatly.  I got 1.2 (dl)
from speedtest.net and 2 from think broadband.
I have investigated Virgin Media's suggested "gofaster" speed of 10
but it doesn't seem to be available here yet anyway.
Has anyone else enquired?

Pam in Bristol

Pam Moore wrote:

> 
> You are right, guys.  The two speedtests vary greatly.  I got 1.2 (dl)
> from speedtest.net and 2 from think broadband.
> I have investigated Virgin Media's suggested "gofaster" speed of 10
> but it doesn't seem to be available here yet anyway.
> Has anyone else enquired?
> 

Not me, I'm looking in to getting a different isp but keep finding bad 
reports about most.

Alec

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> You are right, guys.  The two speedtests vary greatly.  I got 1.2 (dl)
> from speedtest.net and 2 from think broadband.
> I have investigated Virgin Media's suggested "gofaster" speed of 10
> but it doesn't seem to be available here yet anyway.
> Has anyone else enquired?
>
> Pam in Bristol

Here over in Nottingham I have a successful 10meg download after ringing 
Customer Services and they increased it for me in seconds, after having 
difficulties trying to do it online.
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> Pam Moore wrote:
>
>>
>> You are right, guys.  The two speedtests vary greatly.  I got 1.2 (dl)
>> from speedtest.net and 2 from think broadband.
>> I have investigated Virgin Media's suggested "gofaster" speed of 10
>> but it doesn't seem to be available here yet anyway.
>> Has anyone else enquired?
>>
>
> Not me, I'm looking in to getting a different isp but keep finding bad 
> reports about most.

Try news.individual.net it costs 10 Euros a year, works very well and  I 
have had no trouble with it.
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