BT Speedtester Changes
Which is more than you can say when uploading pictures to this forum - it stalled twice 
on the previous post and even managed to post twice 
on the previous post and even managed to post twice
Glad someone else started this, saved me some typing!
Only had to accept the Java Applet thingie once earlier this evening when I first ran this new test, it didn't prompt me again just now.
It certainly runs faster, particularly the "checking user details" which used to take for ever.
The speed results "seem" a bit more realistic/accurate and compared with their Beta tester well, in fact on the last test I got 6.26M on both (fix??) the standard test and the beta, which for my 6.5M profile I considered to be quite good. The last test on My Broadband Speed just now gave me 6201kbps. Earlier this evening I got 6.19 & 6.14 from the standard test and 6.24 from the Beta.
I was also a bit miffed that the results (speed test & sync speed) were only to 3 figures, what's up with 4 figures then?
Also miffed that the profile was not displayed prior to the actual speed test. Although my line is normally stable, I do border the 6.5/6M profile and if I'm anticipating a profile change back up, I used to cancel the test once the profile was displayed before the speed test so that if I really wanted I could check again in less than an hour. But as the test can now be run every 10 minutes if one really wanted, can't have everything I supposed
You've got to laugh a bit when speed testers (all of them) give you faster speeds than your profile (or sync speed), up & down. The BT Beta gave me 6.55 the other day.
PS. Jim, how come you got an upload speed test? I've never seen that. I've only rarely seen an assured rate test with an ages ago tester and I think that's when it's connected to the wrong tester for some reason (I don't have an assured rate session).
Only had to accept the Java Applet thingie once earlier this evening when I first ran this new test, it didn't prompt me again just now.
It certainly runs faster, particularly the "checking user details" which used to take for ever.
The speed results "seem" a bit more realistic/accurate and compared with their Beta tester well, in fact on the last test I got 6.26M on both (fix??) the standard test and the beta, which for my 6.5M profile I considered to be quite good. The last test on My Broadband Speed just now gave me 6201kbps. Earlier this evening I got 6.19 & 6.14 from the standard test and 6.24 from the Beta.
I was also a bit miffed that the results (speed test & sync speed) were only to 3 figures, what's up with 4 figures then?
Also miffed that the profile was not displayed prior to the actual speed test. Although my line is normally stable, I do border the 6.5/6M profile and if I'm anticipating a profile change back up, I used to cancel the test once the profile was displayed before the speed test so that if I really wanted I could check again in less than an hour. But as the test can now be run every 10 minutes if one really wanted, can't have everything I supposed
You've got to laugh a bit when speed testers (all of them) give you faster speeds than your profile (or sync speed), up & down. The BT Beta gave me 6.55 the other day.
PS. Jim, how come you got an upload speed test? I've never seen that. I've only rarely seen an assured rate test with an ages ago tester and I think that's when it's connected to the wrong tester for some reason (I don't have an assured rate session).
I tried this new BT speedtester and found that it crashed Firefox 10.0 on Ubuntu 10.10 EVERY time !
On browsing to http://speedtester.bt.com/, I got a pop-up asking to accept the verified digitally signed applet, on clicking [Run] Firefox would crash and close down to the crash reporting dialogue.
I then browsed to http://java.com/en/ and ran the "Do I have Java?" tool - to verify that my Firefox Java plugin was still working (as it has always worked on this PC for the last year or so without any problems !). The tool said "Your Java version: Version 6 Update 20"
I then looked in the Firefox plug-ins to see which Java plugin was currently installed, and discovered "icedtea6-plugin" and "openjdk-6-jre".
I uninstalled those open-source Java plug-ins, then reconfigured Firefox to pickup the proprietary "sun-java6-plugin" which was already installed on the system.
Went back to http://java.com/en/, which now reports that I have "Your Java version: Version 6 Update 26"
Ran the BT speedtester again and now it works - phew !
On browsing to http://speedtester.bt.com/, I got a pop-up asking to accept the verified digitally signed applet, on clicking [Run] Firefox would crash and close down to the crash reporting dialogue.
I then browsed to http://java.com/en/ and ran the "Do I have Java?" tool - to verify that my Firefox Java plugin was still working (as it has always worked on this PC for the last year or so without any problems !). The tool said "Your Java version: Version 6 Update 20"
I then looked in the Firefox plug-ins to see which Java plugin was currently installed, and discovered "icedtea6-plugin" and "openjdk-6-jre".
I uninstalled those open-source Java plug-ins, then reconfigured Firefox to pickup the proprietary "sun-java6-plugin" which was already installed on the system.
Went back to http://java.com/en/, which now reports that I have "Your Java version: Version 6 Update 26"
Ran the BT speedtester again and now it works - phew !
Anyone else noticed that the "DSL connection rate" (sync speed) has disappeared from the new version?
Speedtest.net and MybroadbandSpeed always used to report higher throughput speeds both up and down, but I've just done back-to-back tests and the BT tester now reports slightly higher speeds than the other two.
Given that there was a "suspicion" that the other testers add the overheads back into the result and were therefore not a true reflection of actual throughput I'm wondering if BT now does the same (or in fact was previously under-reporting for some reason.)
Speedtest.net and MybroadbandSpeed always used to report higher throughput speeds both up and down, but I've just done back-to-back tests and the BT tester now reports slightly higher speeds than the other two.
Given that there was a "suspicion" that the other testers add the overheads back into the result and were therefore not a true reflection of actual throughput I'm wondering if BT now does the same (or in fact was previously under-reporting for some reason.)
[quote=JayG]Anyone else noticed that the "DSL connection rate" (sync speed) has disappeared from the new version?
No -
No -
Quote from: purleigh [quote=JayG]Anyone else noticed that the "DSL connection rate" (sync speed) has disappeared from the new version?
No -
Could be a 20CN/21CN thing?
So, one step forward, half a step back for some of us, and an additional element of doubt for everyone (not like BT at all!!)
