New speed tester at this link below
http://beta.speedtest.net/
Its flashy has all the bells and whistles but i don't trust the result.
I got 5700Kbps on it then did the Giganews http://www.giganews.com/performance.html test straight after and got 4335Kpbs.
The giganews results are nearer my usual speeds.
Maxping,
Just to throw a spanner in the works giganews gave me a result of 100k ten seconds later 5m at dslzone and 4.4.m with the bt tester a couple of mins later.
Regards
Doug
Its still reporting the highest test result here but to be honest they all move up and down each time you use them.
I think its best not to do speed tests ;D
ADSL Guide -- 4953.8 Kbps
Giganews -- 4562Kbps.
Speedtest -- 5441Kbps
I think the Giganews speedtester is congested ... too well known now I reckon ;)
I`ve always trusted a realtime download in any case, such as what you get here (http://fuller.zen.co.uk/test/). Start downloading 100 megs, leave it for a few minutes then see what your realtime throughput is. Far more accurate I would say than downing a few kilobytes ;)
BTW, I like this new speedtester max! :)
I like the real time downloads over speed tests.
Have a look at this it will show a picture for a few seconds then give you info on your connection ;)
http://www.netmonitor.org/tools/ttest.php
You do know who owns this site m8 ;) Not that it`s a problem ... belongs to ADSLguide ;)
But it ain`t what I class as real time ... they sent me 1 meg ... nowhere near enough. Stick with Zen server and get a true realtime HTTP download.
Do as yer told!! :police: :laugh:
Thanks Guys!
Hours of fun presented here for us speed tester junkies.
No probs, but I stopped doing `em regularly a long time ago ... got tired of worrying why I was losing 1kb/sec throughput in between the hours of 3:30am and 4:30 am ;)