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451159 2006-05-01 19:08:00 How accurate are the speed test programs? Look at todays test. Two vastly different speeds from tests one minute apart

May 2nd, 2006 6:04am 2891.3 kbps
May 2nd, 2006 6:03am 3479.5 kbps
May 1st, 2006 8:53am 3133.1 kbps
April 30th, 2006 7:16am 2891.3 kbps
April 30th, 2006 7:16am 2896.7 kbps
April 30th, 2006 7:15am 3283.4 kbps
April 29th, 2006 6:37am 3353.7 kbps
April 28th, 2006 8:21am 2978.9 kbps
April 28th, 2006 8:21am 2962 kbps
April 28th, 2006 8:21am 3374.9 kbps
April 27th, 2006 6:07am 2951 kbps
April 27th, 2006 6:06am 2978.9 kbps
April 27th, 2006 6:06am 5913.4 kbps
April 26th, 2006 12:17pm 3209.6 kbps
JJJJJ (528)
451160 2006-05-01 21:40:00 I wouldn't worry about it, you're getting good speeds overall. pctek (84)
451161 2006-05-01 22:25:00 The April 27 test might be a rogue one. As to the others the variability is depedent on other traffic on the link between the testing computer and the testing server. You may have to go through multiple router and network links.

Do a tracert to see how many hops between you and the server. The more hops you have the more variability.
KiwiTT_NZ (233)
451162 2006-05-01 23:21:00 What plan and provider gets you those speeds? My ihug 2 MB ony gets me arround 1000 kbs most of the time. DavidW (532)
451163 2006-05-02 01:09:00 any good site for testing speed? SKT174 (1319)
451164 2006-05-02 02:04:00 www.nzdsl.co.nz JJJJJ (528)
451165 2006-05-02 02:05:00 any good site for testing speed?For accurate testing of your best speed at the time (which doesn't account for other influentials such as traffic and server congestion)... go to:

www.jetstreamgames.co.nz/speed

or

www.nzdsl.co.nz
Greg (193)
451166 2006-05-02 08:54:00 So disappointing :dogeye:

I was on 2Mb plan before and I used to get 1.6Mb and now they said they have upgraded to 3.5Mb and I now get 1Mb :badpc:
SKT174 (1319)
451167 2006-05-02 12:06:00 @JJJJJ
wow lucky you getting high speed

i'm on 3.5mb getting something more like 2.2mb
but the last two night's been horrible
sometimes slower than 256k..duno why..
i did go over my cap a bit on the last day of april
but now it's May..not sure why so slow


um..just some more speedtests you can do:
www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
www.speedtest.co.nz
heni72847 (1166)
451168 2006-05-02 13:39:00 Speed: 1936 kbps (242 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 130 kbps (16.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Cicero (40)
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