ThinkBroadband speed test

[Noreen]

I know that some people here aren't keen on speed tests as such but I've just done the test at ThinkBroadband so that I could do the monthly ISP rating. I got a result of 5988.99 Kbps this surprised me as I'd just previously done a BT test and got a result of 6803 Kbps, I'd gone straight from one test to the other. The only consolation is that I presume that the apparent reduction in speed would apply to all persons rating their ISP via the speed test. I would have assumed that the BT was more reliable but is that so? 

[Gary]

Speed tests can vary but I find the BT speed tester more reliable Noreen to be honest, some of the others appear to give wildly different readings

[TheMonkey]

can i ask if anyone was having speed issues yesterday? i haven't tested it today as i am now at work but my browsing was taking ages to load and my speedtests were showing my download speed as 1 meg (

1st problem i've had with speeds since joining. hope its all ok. my router stats are exactly the same i posted in another thread. i'll try and find it.

[Noreen]

Yes Gary, I'd also done a Speedtest.net test and as usual it was even faster than BT. It seems unfortunate that ThinkBroadband's slower test results are involved in their ISP rating system. 

[Gary]

Yes Gary, I'd also done a Speedtest.net test and as usual it was even faster than BT. It seems unfortunate that ThinkBroadband's slower test results are involved in their ISP rating system. 

I wonder if there is a bias involved their somehow Noreen

[Gary]

can i ask if anyone was having speed issues yesterday? i haven't tested it today as i am now at work but my browsing was taking ages to load and my speedtests were showing my download speed as 1 meg (

1st problem i've had with speeds since joining. hope its all ok. my router stats are exactly the same i posted in another thread. i'll try and find it.

No issues here at all, have you had a sync event maybe, or loss of power that may cause the line to see an issue?

[Noreen]

I wonder if there is a bias involved their somehow Noreen

Are you confusing them with DSL ZoneUK Gary?

[Inactive]

Are you confusing them with DSL ZoneUK Gary?

You wouldn't be suggesting that DSL Zone is biased Noreen?? 

[Gary]

Are you confusing them with DSL ZoneUK Gary?

I never trust any site Noreen that says its not biased  but I may have been

[TheMonkey]

No issues here at all, have you had a sync event maybe, or loss of power that may cause the line to see an issue?

not sure, i changed to homesupermax about a week ago and everything was fine. tried reseting my router and turning it off for 30 seconds but no joy.

[Rik]

I've not seen any speed issues, and with IDNet back in the office yesterday, I'm sure we would have heard of any problems. Like Gary, I think you need to look for any local issues, running a BT speed test would be a good starting place.

[Ann]

Mine was just now 6552 with BT and 6490 with thinkbroadband so not much different.  Probably just a blip for Noreen.

[Simon]

Perhaps any speed issues were due to IDNet catching up on all their emails! 

[TheMonkey]

i tried that rik but i can never get it to work. runs the speed test but the bar gets not even a quater the way across and nothing happens. i check back about 30mins later but its still the same.

i live in a flat and my niegbours upstairs have been banging around and hammering. bit of a long shot but do you think they've nicked a wire somewhere?

[Gary]

i tried that rik but i can never get it to work. runs the speed test but the bar gets not even a quater the way across and nothing happens. i check back about 30mins later but its still the same.

i live in a flat and my niegbours upstairs have been banging around and hammering. bit of a long shot but do you think they've nicked a wire somewhere?

Do you use firefox or IE for that test? I find it only works in IE myself

[Rik]

i live in a flat and my niegbours upstairs have been banging around and hammering. bit of a long shot but do you think they've nicked a wire somewhere?

It's always possible, or someone is using an appliance which is electrically noisy. What are your router stats like?

[TheMonkey]

the same as i posted in the other thread that you mentioned were good. i'll have to find them.

oh and i used firefox for that test. if its still a problem later i'll give it a go in IE. 

[TheMonkey]

same as these

Port      Status      TxPkts      RxPkts      Collisions      Tx B/s      Rx B/s      Up Time
WAN    PPPoA    104    101    0    175    434    00:01:13
LAN    10M/100M    599    818    0    2346    1180    00:01:41

ADSL Link    Downstream    Upstream
Connection Speed    8128 kbps    832 kbps
Line Attenuation    20 db    5.5 db
Noise Margin    12 db    9 db

[Rik]

Nothing wrong with those. If it continues, have a word with IDNet. The only things I can think of are exchange congestion or significant noise causing lots of re-sends.

[TheMonkey]

it happend after i took the chrimbo tree down. maybe its sad 

[Rik]

Could you have disturbed anything in the process. I'm just wndering if you had a low sync event and your profile hasn't recovered?

[TheMonkey]

i don't think so. unpluged an adapter but don't think anyhting was disturbed. my comp is in my bedroom and the phone wire starts right from there. 

[Gary]

i don't think so. unpluged an adapter but don't think anyhting was disturbed. my comp is in my bedroom and the phone wire starts right from there. 

can you try a BT speed test in IE? And do you have the latest version of the Java runtime as well since it uses that.

[Rik]

i don't think so. unpluged an adapter but don't think anyhting was disturbed. my comp is in my bedroom and the phone wire starts right from there. 

What Gary said - a BT test would help a lot right now.

I'm just wondering whether you could have disturbed any electrical connections, sufficient to cause a noise storm?

[TheMonkey]

ok cool guys, like i say i'm at work at the mo so i'll post some stats later. thanks for you time