Speed record and idly curious why

[chimneypool]

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.

[jbrennand]

VM recommend (and use) Samknows for speedtests, I prefer speedtest.

see

https://speedtest.samknows.com/

https://www.speedtest.net/

Try them on 2 different browsers - as Chrome sometimes gives odd results.

[Daniel_Et]

Hi @chimneypool 👋 Thank you for your post and welcome to the Virgin Media Community 😀

Have you tried following the advice provided by @jbrennand? If so, are the results more in line with what you'd expect?

Please pop back to us at your earliest convenience.

Regards,
Daniel

[Cardiffman282]

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. 

[chimneypool]

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.

[chimneypool]

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.

[chimneypool]

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.

[HUGH_EFFO]

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.

[jpeg1]

A Hub 3 cannot possibly pass that speed, so it's simply a false reading. 

[asim18]

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.