Currently yes that will change though

Yes, same with my system. On Speedtest.net it regularly reads 900Mb+ in both directions (best ever was 944 in both directions) but the TBB test clocks in at around 200Mb.
All I'm measuring is the speed of the test server, not my fiber connection.
As far as we can make out there is only one testing server (Okola beta in Amsterdam) that can keep up with 1Gb symmetrical fiber connections.
Does anyone know another?

Have you actually looked at the throughput that ookla is generating and compared that to the numbers it displays?

A big number at the end of the test is often not the full story.

We are seeing a handful of people who do have access to fast connections giving reasonable results e.g.

775 Mbps ipv6 TalkTalk
712 Mbps Hyperoptic
497 Mbps Warwick uni
440 Mbps Oxford uni
416 Mbps Essex uni
388 Mbps Ask4

This is not tests by us, but real people. It would be interesting if you could post a link to your results button, as the graph may actually match what speedtest.net would display, I know how their algorithms work so can usually suggest what they would have displayed.

Well I'm running the TTB Meter at the same time as the Ookla / Speedtest.net test and the figures seem to agree pretty well.
Speedtest says 912.66 Mb/s / 936.46 Mb/s and the bar graphs are peaking at just under 1Gb.
TTB is a great tool with so many bells and whistles, is there any way of grabbing the results in order to post them here that doesn't involve an image?
The "Details of Sites Visited" page is quoting speeds of 800 to 1000 KB/Sec after I've run these tests, but that doesn't seem right, this is only about 7-8 Mbps by my reconing, even you own test tells me 200+Mbps
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/13633...
It's slightly confusing to have both bits/sec and bytes/sec, the conversion site I'm using seems to equate 1Bps=7.8bps approximately.

Edited by deleted (Fri 15-Mar-13 16:57:57)

1 Byte comprises 8 bits

Bytes is used when talking about files,
bits when referring to throughput/connection speeds etc

There is the ability to run a 30 second TCP data grab, but it can be involved to reverse engineer the speed from that. I would rather you had posted the button with the graphs on it, as those are much more useful.

The in and out of the network we are running on is well capable of Gigabit speed, the big unknown is what networks are involved between you and us and that might be the key to the puzzle. As from the numbers I can see you uploading fine, but there are signs of congestion on the download side.

In reply to a post by pjaj:

It's slightly confusing to have both bits/sec and bytes/sec, the conversion site I'm using seems to equate 1Bps=7.8bps approximately.

There are two major confusions, and one sort of fact.

The fact is that for all the discussions here there are 8 bits to a byte. (In systems other than any used here there can be various numbers of bits to a byte).

The two major confusions are to do with the difference between data storage capacity and data transmission speeds

Data storage is measured in bytes, with 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes, and 1 megabyte = 1024 kilobytes. Independent of the number of bits in a byte.

Data transmission speeds are measured in bits per second, with 1 kilobit ps = 1000 bits ps and 1 megabit ps = 1000 kilobits ps.

(There is further minor confusion about the usage of kilo and kibi as prefixes).

Where things really come to grief is that file download software normally reports in the number of "storage" bytes of the transmitted data. Which makes sense as the downloader is normally interested in how many bytes have been transmitted and remain from his 574 megabyte file. This also caters for the other systems mentioned earlier, where there are other than 8 bits to a byte.

Comparing file download speeds with data transmission speeds is therefore to be done with care. The conversion site you refer to with 1MBps = ~7.8Mbps may be mixing things up.

I've replaced the link with one to the graphs.

Not from what I see you haven't . Which isn't surprising seeing as your post with the link hasn't been edited.

Edited by RobertoS (Fri 15-Mar-13 16:54:32)

Wierd! I've edited it 2 or 3 times now and it keeps flipping back to the wrong button after I say "change this post"
If it still is wrong, the link is
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/13633...

Can you do a tracert speedtest4.thinkbroadband.com

I don't know the Gigaclear network arrangement off the top of my head. It is possible they have ensured the route to amsterdam is clear, but not worried about ours before as we never claimed we could test Gigabit speeds until a few weeks ago.

The flat HTTP line suggests there is a limit of some sort somewhere.