In reply to a post by adebov:

This makes no sense to me (unless BT are applying some far out routing) as I'm 44 miles from Maidenhead and 107 miles from Manchester

Even in the ADSL days long before FTTC there was NO geographic connection between your ISP and where your traffic entered the internet. Unlike dialup days, or other countries (e.g. USA).

Also its very possible the speedtest servers are under heavy load.

What has Astrology got to do with me??? lol

Well now I think I did and checking now just found that it has changed, so once again I'm going to keep my mouth zipped up. lol
iechyd da

Not quite as bang on:

26/04/12 05:01 Thu 44019 Kbps 5660 Kbps
17/03/12 15:17 Sat 34207 Kbps 4891 Kbps
02/03/12 01:27 Fri 27920 Kbps 2451 Kbps
20/02/12 22:02 Mon 27628 Kbps 4704 Kbps
20/02/12 22:01 Mon 30960 Kbps 4701 Kbps
20/02/12 21:59 Mon 32960 Kbps 4707 Kbps

OK, if it helps clear this up ....

I fitted an 80/20 yesterday, predicted speed speed, 68 down, but full 80/20 sync seen.

In reply to a post by adebov:

This makes no sense to me (unless BT are applying some far out routing) as I'm 44 miles from Maidenhead and 107 miles from Manchester (direct "as the crow flies" distances), so God knows where BT are routing my connection (if the ping to do a 214 mile round trip is 2.6 times lower than the ping to do an 88 mile round trip).

The Manchester server is falsely labelled, it's actually in London.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Also its very possible the speedtest servers are under heavy load.

Routing plays a significant part, and not always in the way you'd expect.

For example the Preston Speedtest.net server is hosted on VM's network, yet delivers the slowest speeds to VM customers (<20mbps) while at the same time non-VM customers could achieve >90mbps from the same server even from abroad.

In reply to a post by qasdfdsaq:

The Manchester server is falsely labelled, it's actually in London.

Well that's helpful - nice one Xilo

Err.. we have no hosted kit in London, so they're wrong.

Matt

Thanks, so it's in Manchester and whoever posted that it was mislabelled (and is in London) has got their wires crossed (or simply made it up).

Good, I'm glad it hasn't moved ...

Mind you, when I was on Infinity 40/10, I was getting pings to Manchester of around 10-15 ms ...

Now on 80/20, I get pings around 30+ to Manchester ...

Any ideas???

Rob