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Kremmen
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Speed Tester

I've been using a new speed tester at speedof.me
it doesn't use Flash or Java but HTML5 and it always produces readings closer to what the Openreach engineers got on their mobile devices.
In my case Speedtest.net shows circa 17 or 18Mbps but this shows 19 or 20Mbps. The Openreach engineers kit plugged into the test socket was showing 20Mbps.
I like it  Smiley
Let's be careful out there !
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rongtw
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Re: Speed Tester

mmmm is shows me i lost some somewhere  Sad
69.86 Down
6.71 up
12 ms ping
speedtest.net
72.14 down
17.36 up
12 ms ping
TBB
72.3 down
18.3 up
16ms ping
all servers say London
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adamwalker
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Re: Speed Tester

Good spot Kremmen
I'm sure a lot of people will find a non Java of Flash based app useful.
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anniesboy
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Re: Speed Tester

I tried it and got a very odd result.
Speed of      0.99 down
                      4.67  up
                      22 ping

TBB                24.9  down
                      8.4 up
                      21 ping
Speedtest      24.93  down
                        7.98 up
                          19  ping
Jaggies
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Re: Speed Tester

You always get different results from different testers, obviously, but I've always found Speed of Me consistently gives the worst results:


ajbrown1965
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Re: Speed Tester

Just tried speedof.me. Gave me 1.01Mbps download and 3.94Mbps upload. Speedtest.net gave me 73.35Mbps down and 16.95Mbps up, which is what I get with most speed tests I try. I don't think I'll be switching to speedof.me any time soon!
Terranova667
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Re: Speed Tester

I ran it 3 times and got different results for each of them 1 being pretty much spot on the others being way of either on the download or the upload so it's no better or worse than any other really.
Kremmen
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Re: Speed Tester

Thanks for the input.
I wonder why it works consistently for me but not for some others. It was recommended to me on another forum where they raved about it being html5.
Let's be careful out there !
rongtw
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Re: Speed Tester

Kremen what browser do you use ?Huh
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Re: Speed Tester

speedof.me gave download tests slightly faster than my connection (40.45 on a 40 connection; difference is noise). and upload below what a good tester gives (15.15 vs 18.6 or so)
Thinkbroadband gives the most consistently sensible values for me.
w23
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Re: Speed Tester

+1 for thinkbroadband, sensible and realistic results.
Call me 'w23'
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Jaggies
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Re: Speed Tester

+1 for TBB here, too.
Kremmen
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Re: Speed Tester

Quote from: rongtw
Kremen what browser do you use ?Huh

Firefox
I've run it again and the results are still closer to the OR engineers results than speedtest. I never thought of browsers  Roll_eyes
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Re: Speed Tester

I just tried it - clicked the "Start Test" button - and nothing happens !  Crazy
I'll try it again later of a different PC.

I compare web based speed checker results with the real-time firewall or "System Monitor" on my Linux PCs, and my broadband router has an accurate traffic throughput graph that can be viewed while performing speedtests.
I find that -



My SamKnows whitebox also gives accurate speedtest results,  but it doesn't seem as good as they claim regarding not performing speed tests when the connection is being heavily used, so some results during peak times have to be ignored.
Crazy
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Re: Speed Tester

Firewalls and antivirus can also skew speed tests.  They can slightly slow everything down.  I some cases the way they buffer information for checking before passing it on to applications can have the reverse effect. 
As an extreme example, Kaspersky a few years ago would routinely have a huge effect.  I got confused speedtests report over over 100Mbps on a 20Mbps ADSL connection, and I saw other even more extreme distortions posted.  There was no significant impact on real speeds.