Speed tests - Sites to try etc

[patrick78]

I have very poor results for Sky Max package...

[Oakey22]

i take it my speed is ok, taken from Numion - YourSpeed and SiteSpeed

kilobit/sec (kilobyte/sec)
Download speed: 16,631.22 (2,078.90) 100%
Upload speed: 656.74 (82.09) 100%
Surfspeed inside United Kingdom: 271.95 (33.99) 100%
Surfspeed average (worldwide): 278.32 (34.79) 100%
Surfspeed outside United Kingdom: 280.32 (35.04) 100%
Latency: 250 milliseconds

[alderney1965]

Hi Guys & Gals

I have just done a speedtest, I am on Sky Connect and about 2.5km from exchange.

not using any firewalls apart from Windows own, Windows Defender and AVG, my speeds are as follows;

Download: 4325 Kbps
Upload: 381 Kbps

Is this about normal or do I need to tweak something, and if so what.

Thanx

[jamsterfrog]

Dont know if this will help anyone but..the link below contains fifty speed test site around the world and a dozen in GB

Hope this helps you all to max out..


broadband help » Speed Test

All the best

Dean

[PeteC]

and if you have a DL manager or something like downthemall try

www.petesmail.eu/100.bin

that will give you the full max speed your line can do. or should do theres nothing on it and terrabytes of BW sat idle

dont bother with single threads if you have FF get downthemall addon if not then get a DL manager - your just wasting time with single threads

try my file with single thread then with a DL manager and you'll see exactly what i mean

[PeteC]

well i tried all the UK sites and none of them were even close..

don't trust speedtests - simple

[Keiran2K8]

@Pete, Is that file actually 1.5Mb or is my PC playing up, Even with the DownTheMall (*Thanx for the Tip*) The file downloads way too quickly to get a proper reading.

[PeteC]

no it's 100.00MB in size and its coming down here at 1.19mb/sec

it's the same file zen have on their speedtest site - only theirs is never very fast atall..

[Keiran2K8]

Dunno what was up with it before,


Excellent! TopDog! Faster then what I get on the BT Site!

[PeteC]

change your chunks from 5 to 10 so it shows 10/10 in advanced and it might go faster

you and anyone else on this site is welcome to download the bottom off it i've got dedicated BW of 3TB just for speedtests