Postcode side is experiment so wont affect monthly stats

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/index.php?s...
Is a unique version that will do an auto detect of postcode

It put me in Southampton. I live in the north of Scotland...

Can someone explain the Buffer Bloat symbols, please?

BufferBloat is when the test monitors the ping of your connection whilst its downloading or uploading... it then uses the results to grade it A - F

I'm not sure of the values, but I think address said that F means the ping has multiplied by 6x during the saturation of the connection (download/upload)

Thanks. So as both down and upstream show A for buffer bloat, that's the best possible outcome?

A+ is best. But A is still very good and very close to A+ on their thresholds.

Edited by Chrysalis (Wed 19-Aug-15 08:16:07)

We just use A to F on our tester.

Need to add some more notes for people on it, was running the tests in background for a few months, and went live ahead of time because DSLReports started doing theirs.

Hmmm, very good... I've struggled to get mine above C... and that was with heavy QOS intervention so gave up...

I restricted my 60/18 to 50/15 and still got between C - E ratings.... but then thats something I've noticed an issue with on my Plusnet connection.

sorry yeah, was thinking of dslreports.

Thanks for answering tho as I would assume tbb would also have A+.

if your router has rubbish buffering configuration (heavy buffers) then yeah rate limiting wotn improve your latency under load.

There is no standard, maybe in term when we see LOT of people getting A/A we may add a higher standard just like electricity ratings on white goods.