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[renluop]

Please see attachment. All the readings were taken within a few minutes of each other, and allowing for any stupidity on my part, do not seem to be completely logical. For instance, DSLstats has U/s sync 571 kbps, whilst Speed of Me has 610 kbps, and, moreover, BT has .48 Mbps with profile .83 Mbps.

Any comments for #1 easily confused person? Please!

[sheddyian]

I wonder if it's congestion varying on different paths to those different test sites.

Yesterday I was trying out an old modem and went to speedtest.net for a throughput check.  I was amazed how badly it performed, with the speed varying greatly during the test.  Speedtest.net had automatically chosen a server in London for me, but when I manually chose a different one on the site, I got much more stable and realistic speeds.

I imagine all any of those sites are doing is measuring the speed of data throughput between you and a given server, where all parts (your line, your ISP, trunk data routes, the destination ISP & server etc etc) are going to play a part in the overall performance.

Ian

[renluop]

Maybe I should have emphasized  the upstream elements; an upstream through put greater than sync reported in DSLstats and BT report of IP profile way above sync obtained. BTW until a week back syncs were 8229 and the up was much closer to what would be expected of uncapped.