Upgraded to VM 100Mbit

Cavallino · 3 Feb 2015 at 11:37

Was waiting for someone to point that out to me, but I think most people on here knew what I was talking about

Cavallino · 3 Feb 2015 at 13:10

Dog said:
Nah we stopped using the download sites hence why we made servers available on speedtest.net

Are you seeing poor speeds from the afore mentioned site tonight or just trying downloads from somewhere? Where are you trying to downlaod from?

Rich

Tried downloading the thinkbroadband files but Im getting 10.5MB/s yet still getting +100Mbit on adesco bbmax speedtester.

Dog · 3 Feb 2015 at 13:22

I honesty don't think the 'thinkbroadband' site / server is up to the job for those with upper tier connections. I've had to stop customer's from using their speedtest site in the past as the results were inconsistent and not a true representation of the state of their connection.

If you are seeing the full speed on speedtest.net and on bbmax I really wouldn't worry - your connection is working just fine.

There are an awful lot of things that can affect a file download and in that case I think their server is a waste of space.

Try downloading a large file from a decent server - something like a linux OS, ubuntu's servers used to be pretty fast - haven't tried them recently though.

Rich

Psypher5 · 3 Feb 2015 at 13:34

doesnt vm have their own speedtest on their site somewhere?

Cavallino · 3 Feb 2015 at 13:47

Dog said:
I honesty don't think the 'thinkbroadband' site / server is up to the job for those with upper tier connections. I've had to stop customer's from using their speedtest site in the past as the results were inconsistent and not a true representation of the state of their connection.

If you are seeing the full speed on speedtest.net and on bbmax I really wouldn't worry - your connection is working just fine.

There are an awful lot of things that can affect a file download and in that case I think their server is a waste of space.

Try downloading a large file from a decent server - something like a linux OS, ubuntu's servers used to be pretty fast - haven't tried them recently though.

Rich

Thanks bud. Just tried a newsgroup server (easynews) and same, 10.5MB/s, irrespective of port etc etc. Really bizzare and peeing me off a little!

Are there any decent large file servers you could recommend to try ?

skaif · 3 Feb 2015 at 14:00

anything off mega.co.nz. I always seem to max my 152mb virgin line through them! Hit near enough 20mb/s download!

Cavallino · 3 Feb 2015 at 14:09

Cheers skaif, will try that tonight.

Man cant get my head round this, you can see that as soon as it starts to go above 11-12MB/s, whoomf, it gets brought down to 10.5MB/s nice and neat.