Google is your friend.

In reality it is the next stage in Google's takeover of all the world's access to information. Only the Chinese have twigged it. Or maybe all the Goggle shareholdings can be traced back to there, as can all the BT kit that is running the speed test ....

And so on, and so on, ....

Or perhaps if you paste each link into Notepad on adjacent lines, and compare, there is a difference?

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Or perhaps if you paste each link into Notepad on adjacent lines, and compare, there is a difference?

Done! When I say "same" I mean identical.

From Google: http://speedtester.bt.com/
From Favors: http://speedtester.bt.com/

Now that I paste them here, they both work.

Using your Favorites link:-

Download speedachieved during the test was - 31 Mbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speedsis 12 Mbps-38.72 Mbps .
Additional Information:
IP Profile for your line is - 38.72 Mbps

Upload speed achieved during the test was - 1.78Mbps
Additional Information:
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 2 Mbps

(I hope it is the rotten wireless on the PN WNR1000 N150 that is giving the low downstream).

I didn't see your last line, it was off-screen.


It is possible you have somehow got some "non-printing" character in the Properties of the Favorites link. Something that used to happen a lot in the old days but rarely now. But still now and then.

If you highlight and delete it there, then replace with a "copied" one from your post, I reckon it will work.

Screwed up the typing there and in correcting it lost an important bit.

To highlight in Properties use double-click. Not marking.

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 13-Mar-12 23:10:26)

Done all that repeatedly. Why wouldn't I?

Now, in the end, deleted orig Fav and stored new one. Now works fine . Will just have to remain an enigma.