Do you have problems with the BT speed tester - or not?

[Rik]

Thanks, Drummer. It seems like Londoners are doing best.

[colirv]

Well I've just posted this and it appears to have vanished in the ether, so here goes again. I'm in Washington, Tyne & Wear, and the BT speed tester usually works fine in IE7, never in Firefox 2.0.

[MoHux]

I am in Brixham, Torbay, S.Devon.  Using IE7 - 570 mtrs from the exchange - No Problems (but with all you others trying, it says "busy, try later", at the moment!). 

[Rik]

Well I've just posted this and it appears to have vanished in the ether, so here goes again. I'm in Washington, Tyne & Wear, and the BT speed tester usually works fine in IE7, never in Firefox 2.0.

Were you using the QR box or the normal reply, Colin?

[colirv]

QR I think.

[Rik]

Er, silly question, I know, but you did hit Post, didn't you. I know that I haven't a few times, as I can see the messages and think I must have posted (from using the normal reply screen in the past).

[RA-1972]

Mohux you live just down the road from me really m8 well about 10 miles . (newton abbot)

[Dopamine]

I'm in Horsham, West Sussex. Migrated from Pipex to IDNet 7 days ago.

With Pipex I could nearly always get a successful test, with IDNet I can only get successful tests during the early hours of the morning, except for two successes at around 8pm.



Have also noticed that my peak time speeds with IDNet are a lot lower than they were with Pipex, which is a bit of a shock, although IDNet's absence of traffic shaping has improved my browsing experience.

[Rik]

What was your profile for IDNet, compared to Pipex?

It could be you are on a congested VP, of course, or possibly you need to tweak MTU?

[Dopamine]

What was your profile for IDNet, compared to Pipex?

It could be you are on a congested VP, of course, or possibly you need to tweak MTU?

Stable line, profile 7150 on both Pipex and IDNet, noise margin 8db down, 24db up, attenuation 28db down, 16db up.

[Rik]

What's your throughput like?

[Dopamine]

Pipex was around 6mb, IDNet at peak times is between 1.8mb - 4mb.

[Rik]

That's bad - and unusual in my experience. Do a few BT tests and let support have the results. I'm sure they'd want to find out why that's happening (my immediate thought, though, is congested VP at the exchange).

[kerrso05]

I had no problem with BT Speed tester yesterday............I was able to complete two speed tests but not today.................none.............I tried twice and both failed 
Probably too many people using it

[Mr Booh]

Hi, North Essex........... Tester works eventually............... IE7

[colirv]

Er, silly question, I know, but you did hit Post, didn't you. I know that I haven't a few times, as I can see the messages and think I must have posted (from using the normal reply screen in the past).

Possibly not! Anyway, no matter.

[Philip]

never got the thing to work, I'm in Penzance.

[Lance]

Hi, North Essex........... Tester works eventually............... IE7

I'm North Essex too!

[pup]

have  only had 2 successful tests 1st after about 3hrs of trying on tuesday, second attempt on wednesday, no luck to day (just wanted to confirm that my profile is still stuck at 2000k)

Im on the camborne exchange in cornwall

[DeViTTo]

Having problems myself and i'm in Bodmin. There seems to be a lot of cornish on here. 

[Malc]

I like pasties

[MoHux]

Mohux you live just down the road from me really m8 well about 10 miles . (newton abbot)

Hi! Small world as they say.
We had another, very popular member, living in NAbbot.  His forum name was Kheldar, but he hasn't posted for a couple of months.  Probably too busy with the new addition to the family.

 

[Rik]

Devon is making a play for world dominance I reckon, Mo.

[DeViTTo]

Devon is making a play for world dominance I reckon, Mo.

I come from Devon though. 

[MoHux]

Devon is making a play for world dominance I reckon, Mo.

Not pygmalion likely, I remember what happened to the last bloke!