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BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

Luzern
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BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

Attached is a pic of the BT tester screen, when it hangs at 96% through the test. What I would like to know is whether the shown error may lie at my end, and so be something I can cure, or if it is the tester that is kaput.
Incidentally at a connection speed 6080 and profile 5000 the max speed I've seen with the My BB speed tester has been around 4200 and sometimes down to the 2500 mark.
Could there be some link between the low speed and the error shown?
No one has to agree with my opinion, but in the time I have left a miracle would be nice.
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Oldjim
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Re: BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

Without a pic - first suggestion is to try Internet Explorer as Firefox seems very dodgy
Luzern
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Re: BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

@ Oldjim. As you were posting I was modifying with the attached pic Embarrassed
No one has to agree with my opinion, but in the time I have left a miracle would be nice.
Oldjim
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Re: BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

and that is exactly the result I get with Firefox
stathe
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Re: BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

Try it in I.E.it does that in Firefox for me , works O.K with I.E
Luzern
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Re: BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

@ stathe, Oldjim.
Houston we seem to have a problem Cry
I could not find IE in my list of progs, so downloaded again and installed. Still couldn't find it, downloaded again and installed with same result. Where the dickens is it hiding, or do you actually and really go to IE, if you click the IE icon in Firefox?
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Oldjim
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Re: BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

I made an assumption - very dangerous thing to do - that you were running Microsoft Windows in one of  it's incarnations. In which case it is under Start/Programs/Internet Explorer and is called iexplore.exe I believe
James
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Re: BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

Or click on start, then run, then type in iexplore and then hit enter.
Luzern
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Re: BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

@JamesEH Found it now and pinned to start menu.  @ stathe, Oldjim. Yes it does work with IE. Should I perhaps be disillusioned with FF? The only problem is that I have a goodly number of bookmarks, some enfoldered, but that's OT.
FWIW result is attached and thst is at higher end of what I've been getting
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Re: BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

I used the BT Speedtester earlier this afternoon on Firefox and it worked fine.
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Re: BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

Unless someone has fixed the BT site recently, it has never worked for me.
Even then, it only seems to 96% work in a 32bit version of FireFox.
It works 0% in my usual 64bit browser.
Since every other site works 100%, why can't BT manage to get it working?
Why do they use Java - all the work is done at the server side isn't it?
BTW I don't have (or want) access to the ie browser.

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Oldjim
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Re: BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

I only use IE for the odd site which doesn't like Firefox such as Microsoft (and BT Speedtester of course) occasionally and when I want  to log into the PlusNet portal but not under my account to avoid messing up the autologin in Firefox
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Re: BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

the answer is that version 7 of Java had a bug, has now been cured, also make sure that you have Firefox updated and update Java
I can guarantee that this is the answer, there is a recent thread http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,66802.0.html
Oldjim
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Re: BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

Do you want the bad news or the worse news.
Firefox is up to date version 3.0.1
Java is up to date Version 6 Update 7 (build 1.6.0_07-b06)
And it still stalls
Wuz
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Re: BT Speed tester hangs at 96%

I have exactly the same stup and problem and use have to ie7 for BT Speedtester!
Wuz