at midnight on 20 January I journeyed to the future (ha ha) and my speedtest nearly broke 2 GBits 🙂
I gotta know - how did i get this speed score. Nearly two gigabits 🙂 Statistical anomaly? Dodgy code?
https://github.com/ansemjo/speedtest-plotter
In Edinburgh if that matters; speedtest is just to check things are OK (a while back i got stuck on a 100 mbits so this just lets me know if everything is OK).
Thanks.
VM recommend (and use) Samknows for speedtests, I prefer speedtest.
see
https://speedtest.samknows.com/
Try them on 2 different browsers - as Chrome sometimes gives odd results.
Hi jbrennand,
All other speedtests (and the two you mentioned) work and accurately report my speed and its in line with what i pay for (500 MBits).
I was just wondering if anyone can tell me why i jumped so high (nearly hit 2 Gbits!!). I record my speed every hour (I once paid for 300 MBits for a year and used a router with only 100Base-T so lost 200 MBits! and now record my speed to make sure i'm not doing anything stupid...) and I've not had it jump like this ever. I think the speedtest has to get that much data from a remote host so I think it was a real thing.
Just wondered if any network engineers in Virgin could satisfy my idle curiosity.
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Virgin Media's service is impeccable - fast, reliable, no problems (touch wood). Honestly its all great.
If you read my post you would see from the graph i am very satisfied. Can you ask one of your network engineers to tell me how i managed to get nearly 4X my paid for speed? I normally get 500 MBits but nearly got 2 GBits at midnight! Thats 2000 MBits 🙂 Just idly curious. If you can't, its all good, please spend all your time keeping my service reliable, no complaints here.
Are you on the new XGS-PON service (Hub 5x) by any chance? I think VM is itching to launch a 2 Gbps service on it soon.
I am not sadly. I am only on a Hub3. Which amazed me as i didn't think they could do 2x Gigabit speeds...
My guess is that its probably an error as the speedtest needs to receive that much data from a remote host? And i can't see how i could possibly do that without the hub letting me.I dunno - all a big mystery. But its nice to know I might (probably not) hit 2 GBits :)))))))))) No idea what i would do with 2 GBits but its hella cool.
I think the two speedtests were with ultranetworks or a Lancashire council. I can't easily parse the speedtest.db right now.
also depends on what site your using to test. If I use "Broadband speed checker" it tells me im getting over 2 Gig upload speed.
I use speedtest cli to do testing as its a command line program, so is not browser dependant.
A Hub 3 cannot possibly pass that speed, so it's simply a false reading.
My theory is that the data was buffered for a few seconds somewhere along the line, the 2Gbps was a data burst from the buffer, not from the internet. It's showing 2Gb because the reading was not averaged over time.
