How is it possible to get more download than the network your on?

hyperst

hyperst

hyperst

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I have a weird one, how is it possible to get above the rating of you line/download speed , I live out in the country so now super fast broadband here only BT's 8Mb/s speed, yet a couple of speed test have reported above what I should be getting?



I have also had over 10Mb/s

As of late I am getting some lag in battlefield bad company 2 and wondering if there is something going on I should get my supplier to check?
 
Use a trusted speed test site like www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

A lot of speed testers are badly designed and can be quite inaccurate.
The only surefire test of a connection is to measure a real life download, speed tests are just pretty (sometimes fictional) numbers.

Speedtest.net just gave me 4.8Mbit on a 10meg leased line :) which is completely worthless because I know it's 10meg, because it's uncontested and it's ethernet so it will be 10meg or nothing.
What's causing that result is other traffic and QoS traffic shaping on the breakout firewall. (I know because I put it on there to stop people running speed tests and alike screwing up other services :))
 
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I have long suspected that these companies give speed testing websites an artificially high priority to make themselves look better. Best way is to pick a nice big file from a powerful server and time how long it takes to download.
 
Usenet is always a good indicator, also zen test file for download, speedtest.bbmax for a generic speed test
 
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