BT Speedtester

How long should it take for the bt speedtester to complete ?
Over the last few months I have tried it at various times of the day
and also during the night.

I gets to the page "testing please wait" No of threads 4!
after 25 mins the progress bar gets to 96% and then stops, this
morning it was at 96% at 0905 and was still there at 1330 when I gave
up. I have never yet got this speedtester to complete has anyone got
any ideas what may be the problem.

Walter

"Walter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> How long should it take for the bt speedtester to complete ?
> Over the last few months I have tried it at various times of the day
> and also during the night.
>
> I gets to the page "testing please wait" No of threads 4!
> after 25 mins the progress bar gets to 96% and then stops, this
> morning it was at 96% at 0905 and was still there at 1330 when I gave
> up. I have never yet got this speedtester to complete has anyone got
> any ideas what may be the problem.

It's notorious for doing things like that.
Someone may be along in a minute to explain why?

George

Alan P wrote:
> George Weston explained on 16/01/2009 :
>> "Walter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> How long should it take for the bt speedtester to complete ?
>>> Over the last few months I have tried it at various times of the day
>>> and also during the night.
>>>
>>> I gets to the page "testing please wait" No of threads 4!
>>> after 25 mins the progress bar gets to 96% and then stops, this
>>> morning it was at 96% at 0905 and was still there at 1330 when I gave
>>> up. I have never yet got this speedtester to complete has anyone got
>>> any ideas what may be the problem.
>
> I've been getting java exception errors lately - using Firefox & W2K.
>
> The test results are not displayed in the browser. Curiously the test
> does complete OK using Firefox & Ubuntu linux.
>
> This is a good alternative speedtest :-
>
> http://www.auditmypc.com/internet-speed-test.asp
>
>
> Alan P

Just tried that Alan.
It gave me 4216 kbps downstream 294.5 kbps upstream

Whereas http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/ less than 2 minutes later gave me
6168, 371 respectively. Comments !



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"Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°9 +" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message n
>
> Just tried that Alan.
> It gave me 4216 kbps downstream 294.5 kbps upstream
>
> Whereas http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/ less than 2 minutes later gave
> me 6168, 371 respectively. Comments !
>
>
Its giving me silly results.

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>>
>> Whereas http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/ less than 2 minutes later gave
>> me 6168, 371 respectively. Comments !
>

Yes that gave me a result same as the ones I used

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Alan P wrote:
> Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°9 + has brought this to us :
>> Alan P wrote:
>>> I've been getting java exception errors lately - using Firefox & W2K.
>>>
>>> The test results are not displayed in the browser. Curiously the test
>>> does complete OK using Firefox & Ubuntu linux.
>>>
>>> This is a good alternative speedtest :-
>>>
>>> http://www.auditmypc.com/internet-speed-test.asp
>>>
>>>
>>> Alan P
>>
>> Just tried that Alan.
>> It gave me 4216 kbps downstream 294.5 kbps upstream
>>
>> Whereas http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/ less than 2 minutes later
>> gave me 6168, 371 respectively. Comments !
>
> Just tried them both :-
>
> auditmypc
> ds 6118
> us 393
>
> mybroadbandpc
> ds 5439
> us 379
>
> It's a case of the old Chinese proverb :-
> "Sometimes the bus is early, and sometimes it is late."
>
> Alan P
>
>
auditmypc 3917/397

mybroadbandpc 6856/384

thinkbroadband 5937/378

I don't care any more. I can get West Ham and my other half can get Man
U at the same time every time on P2P that is good enough.

Obviously I am not with Tiscali or TalkTalk. I am with Newnet (8Mb) and
take 99.999% reliability and pretty good speeds 24/7 as a given.

"Edward W. Thompson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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Clearly a
> contention issue but how to ghet anyone aty BT to do something about
> it?

It is you that as to do something!
You move to a decent ISP.

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Walter wrote:

> How long should it take for the bt speedtester to complete ?
> Over the last few months I have tried it at various times of the day
> and also during the night.
>
> I gets to the page "testing please wait" No of threads 4!
> after 25 mins the progress bar gets to 96% and then stops, this
> morning it was at 96% at 0905 and was still there at 1330 when I gave
> up. I have never yet got this speedtester to complete has anyone got
> any ideas what may be the problem.

It's notoriously bad. Persist.

Graham

"Edward W. Thompson" wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:23:08 +0000, Walter <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
> >How long should it take for the bt speedtester to complete ?
> >Over the last few months I have tried it at various times of the day
> >and also during the night.
> >
> >I gets to the page "testing please wait" No of threads 4!
> >after 25 mins the progress bar gets to 96% and then stops, this
> >morning it was at 96% at 0905 and was still there at 1330 when I gave
> >up. I have never yet got this speedtester to complete has anyone got
> >any ideas what may be the problem.
> >
> >Walter
> >
> During the evening it is notoriously slow but during the day I have no
> problems but it does take up to three minutes to complete.
>
> What I find with .speedtester' is it consistently gives abiut 2mbps
> higher speed than another broadband speed tester. This would not be
> so much as a problem except the BT people only accept the result from
> the BT Speedtester so in the evenings, when my actual speed is always
> less that 800kbps, the BT spedtester gives close to 3mbps which BT
> maintain is fine. My daytime speed is about 3.5mbps (the BT average
> as I understand it) whereas the BT speedtester gives 5.5mbps which is
> comparable to the rated 6mbps line speed.
>
> The BT broadband where I am located is simply a fraudulent service.
> 6mbps promised and charged for the service provides 3mbps during the
> day and an unuseable 700/800kbps during 'peak' times. Clearly a
> contention issue but how to ghet anyone aty BT to do something about
> it?

It's most likely it's your ISP that's fraudulent.

BT. Figures. Get a decent one and NEVER use 'their' email addresses, so
you can them swap ISPs at will.

Handy tip. Good ISPs only require 1 month contracts.

Graham

"Eeyore" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>
> Handy tip. Good ISPs only require 1 month contracts.
>

A one month contract does not mean they are a good ISP, be careful not true
in all cases.

(I'm on a 3 month notice contract.)

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