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Thread ID: 93358 2008-09-13 06:49:00 Incredibly wrong speed tests Netsukeninja (13296) Press F1
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704959 2008-09-21 16:40:00 So recently I have been getting incredibly wrong (extremely fast) speed tests.

Here is a picture of what I mean: Attached file: untitled1221286722.png (www.imagef1.net.nz) (59 KB)

I'm on Telecom Go Large

Any idea what I can do to fix this? I've tried clearing my cookies, cache etc.

Happens on Firefox301 and IE7

Well mine is ok but yours is WOW
Here are 4 tests 2 in speedtest and one io and one with a Direct Dowload Server diferent mile distance on the speedtest ones:
1.speedtest.net 100miles
www.speedtest.net (http://www.speedtest.net)
48000kb/s DL
2.speedtest.net 1350miles
www.speedtest.net (http://www.speedtest.net)
47000kb/s DL
3.speed.io
speed.io (http://www.speed.io)
30000kb/s DL
4. i38.tinypic.com
5.5MB/s DL
Psihi (14178)
704960 2008-09-22 00:28:00 try around 7-8pm & compare the result:banana

I find with Xtra's (Go Large) throttling, the first (say) 5Mb of a large download is super fast then it gets throttled back to sometimes 1/10 of the initial speed.
This initial 'burst' of unthrottled bandwidth can give misleading results on speedtests
sroby (11519)
704961 2008-10-01 10:42:00 Well I can't find a way to edit my post so here is the solution I found.

It seems to have been be Avira AntiVir Premium's "webguard". This problem also happens with Kaspersky's "webscanner". If you disable the guard the speedtest will run fine. :)
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