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I haven't used speedtester.bt.com for a couple of months or so.
All this week, all I get is that the URL no longer exists.
Anyone else having the same problem. ??
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Hi Matt.
Yep, I do also use that tester, but you don't get a profile with it.
I'm on fibre myself, but I what to test my daughters line, & to see her lines profile.
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You should do, on the further diagnostics after the basic test?
Matt
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You should do, on the further diagnostics after the basic test?
Sorry Matt, my mistake.
I didn't try that. It goes on & runs what looks like the old test, & gives the profile 
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I didn't try that. It goes on & runs what looks like the old test, & gives the profile
It doesn't actually run the old test, it's much quicker than that.
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Maybe I should have said, that it displays the results like the old tester.
Yep, it is faster, but I don't like the upload results. All other sites give much higher upload speeds, than that test.
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I'm on fibre myself, but I what to test my daughters line, & to see her lines profile. You can see FTTC Profiles too.
1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up => 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB => 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB => 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU => 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU => 2011: Orange 20 Meg WBC
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Maybe I should have said, that it displays the results like the old tester.
Yep, it is faster, but I don't like the upload results. All other sites give much higher upload speeds, than that test.
I also get about 2Mbps upload less on that test. Download really close to real.
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It's interesting that, if you run the bt speedtest, tbb, and speedtest.net in quick succession (how sad is that?) you can get three totally different results which I don't believe can be just the result of a couple of minutes time delay.
Why is that? Which do you believe?
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All three are testing slightly different things, speedtest.net tends towards showing a burst speed (we show avg and burst but our burst is calculated slightly differently). What bt do, no idea but their test can bypass a chunk of internet too, and relies on java to add to the difference.
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What bt do, no idea but their test can bypass a chunk of internet too, and relies on java to add to the difference.
BTW speed tester no longer uses Java.
Brian
From September 2001 on BTopenworld Home 500/Home 1000/Home 2000. Then ADSLMax on <n>ildram. Moved to ADSL2+ from ADSL24. I'm now with plusnet. I'm not saying who I work for. Any opinions expressed here are my own.
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It's interesting that, if you run the bt speedtest, tbb, and speedtest.net in quick succession (how sad is that?) you can get three totally different results which I don't believe can be just the result of a couple of minutes time delay.
Why is that? Which do you believe?
Probably because each of the testers is cherry-picking different bits of the data to disregard. For example, speedtest.net discard the fastest 10% and slowest 30% of the samples in the test (all explained at https://support.speedtest.net/entries/20862782-how-d... ).
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Thanks, and there are often large differences in ping as well, IMHO too great to be accounted for by the couple of minutes time difference - speedtest usually being well in excess of tbb.
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