Speedtest

I am a newcomer to broadband and am interested in the speed of the service I am receiving. I have used the speed test at thinkbroadband and received a result.
However, I'm not sure how to read the result or what it means. Horizontal bars are in blue or red and the red appear to be very low!
I am subscribed to BT's 8Mb Total Broadband service and understand that I am unlikely to achieve 8Mb; but, I don't understand from the result how close I am.
Is there an area of the site that explains the graph.
Also the graph does not appear like the graph that is proposed on the website if I register.
Can anyone help please?
Jim

post a link to your results and someone can look at them and tell you if they are infact low.

Hi wrtpeeps. Thanks for the quick reply.
Not sure about how to post a link! Does this work?
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/11676681244903466507.html
Jim

Yeah, it works. You have a problem

Thanks Movie, but can you tell me how big the problem is?
What exactly is the speed of my connection?
I was expecting a graph result in Mb/sec!
Jim

I doubt that you have a problem. This speedtester is, frankly, flaky at times - I get similar results shown but know for sure that I run at 6mb.....

Go here:-

http://www.speedtest.net/

and try this one. Use the London server and you shoud get a reasonably accurate picture.

If nothing else is using the connection, you should get something like mine. You have very poor speeds.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/11676705152436807342.html

Try what I said. This speedtester is not consistently accurate!!

I use five different speedtesters. All except this one show similar results. This one is flaky!!

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This speedtester is not consistently accurate!

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Works for me Maybe you have a problem?

Hi Garyilka,
Thanks. I'll try the link.

PS Interesting question about the universe. Remember, it is space that is expanding. Also, consider that not only is space expanding but that the rate of expansion is excellerating! Weird! Something is working against gravity which would return the universe to it's origin - the big crunch.
Jim