Speedtest broken

Speedtest.net looks like it is spectacularly broken

http://www.speedtest.net/result/295275452.png

Not bad for an up to 8Mb service!

Regards,
Steve

No big surprise there.
Speedtest.net is fantastically rubbish at the best of times.

I've usually found it quite accurate to be honest.

Regards,
Steve

Looks like it is on Windows it is broken. Here's a couple of tests moments apart; one on Windows, the other on Ubuntu

Windows: http://www.speedtest.net/result/296560639.png

Ubuntu: http://www.speedtest.net/result/296560078.png

Regards,
Steve

I only have Windows.

I gave up on BBMax a while ago as it showed crazy figures. I read a post not long ago that I think said speedtest.net uses the same engine. So .

In BBMax's case a while ago it seems it had a single 100Mbps pipe to use. That wouldn't help accuracy.

The only tests I really trust are BT and TBB. The oddities in TBB seem to be specific to certain unknown circumstances for particular users. I always find the two tests very consistent when run in sequence.

same here I expect the OP is a victim of cached speedtesting, firefox user I wonder.

Running Firefox on both Windows and Ubuntu, and both IE and Opera report equally silly figures on Windows. It only recently has gotten silly on WIndows.

Regards,
Steve