My connections are wired, although I do have wireless connectivity if I wanted to use it - as for my mobile. I take it from your replies that there's nothing really I can tweak. Seems odd that speedtesters (apart from yours) test either one thing or the other and don't say which it is.

Tx for the help anyway.
Cheers

MerC

Keep an eye on this thread for a few days. Someone might come up with an idea.

ISP traffic management ? Do you see this on other TT fibre results ?

Don't recall seeing it, and too late to go and dig through the various data sets I have now

In reply to a post by yarwell:

ISP traffic management ? Do you see this on other TT fibre results ?

Is there any chance the OP can test at different times of day showing us the graphs with the different results in it?

I have two theories:

The first being that your circuit is set so that one thread is equal to your IPv4 TBB speed so it will be impossible to max out the connection with one thread. Speedtest.net uses two threads (four threads sometimes if needed) hence the higher (double) speed with their tests.

The second is that TalkTalk are using traffic management as previously suggested. Completing tests at different times of the day should rule this out.

Edited by chris6273 (Fri 22-Mar-13 01:19:38)

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

So in short don't know why single thread is slow on that PC

Just a thought but I had a problem like that with my ISP last year. It turned out to be a configuration issue that occurred after they updated one of their boxes. I don't have any more information than that but here's what tech support said:

"Thanks to input from Andrue we have identified a possible issue with one of the LNS servers so we're going to reload it at 04:30 tomorrow morning. Consequently those customers currently connected will see a brief PPP drop as your connection is shifted to one of the other LNS servers. "

That is a possibility, some nifty analysis on a few weeks worth of test data might help.