Speed test

Anything wrong with the tbb speedtester as no dial pointer movement or results, then used Ookla and got a test speed result for the EE mobile via a router connection?

Update
Speed test result from tester now that the VPN is switched off.

There shouldn't per se be anything preventing testing via VPN.. it could affect performance.. there are some weird issues I see with VPNs and generally breaking things on some public wi-fi networks to do with MTU sizes I think..

In reply to a post by Apprentice:

Update
Speed test result from tester now that the VPN is switched off.

I don't do speed tests with the VPN switch on, you can lose a bit of speed doing that and sometimes it just don't work.
It is interesting to see what you lose with the VPN switch on.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

In reply to a post by Apprentice:

Update
Speed test result from tester now that the VPN is switched off.

I don't do speed tests with the VPN switch on, you can lose a bit of speed doing that and sometimes it just don't work.
It is interesting to see what you lose with the VPN switch on.

I may try this later

On a 1gbit connection I can get around 300Mbit using OpenVPN and 700Mbit using wireguard.

This is using PIA.

using a vpn browser addon, i lost about 100mbits single threaded download - x6 was compareable, but the upload was more sporadic and was hitting 145mbit/s on a 110 upload

And that was a with a good vpn, lesser known vpns with not enough bandwidth will be worse along with differing pc/mac cpu performance.