btw Havlock bit of info for you that you may be interested in.
>> Being a novice can you tell me how I use the BTw speedtest to check my line without going through AOL.
Had a convo with the guy in charge of the BT performance and speed testers last week.
If you are on max the PT is a 3 part test, and if your speeds are sufficiently low, it is supposed to take you on to instructions to do a BTw speedtest via a separate log in. (I think we were already of this)
I was told that if you are on MAX, then using the old BTw speedtester via IP address goes in via a backdoor which bypasses the BT loadbalancers. Therefore he says any results obtained this way cant be considered accurate.
Need to update my site properly when I get chance -
Ive already edited the
Performance Tester page slightly.
He is supposed to be sending me some more info but as yet I havent received it.
Theres also a couple of things I want to check further - because when I was "playing" with the PT the other week, I noticed I could force it to take me on to part 3 - but for some reason I still wasnt able to complete the test properly... need to do a bit more digging on that one.
But the jist of it would seem to be that if you are on max there is now no real easy way of being able to check for VP congestion like we used to be able to. :/