BT Speed Test

I've just run a BT speed test for the first time in months. It does not appear to make sense. I have ADSL MAX as issued in April 2006. Can anybody interpret?

Download speed achieved during the test was - 7618 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 1000-7150 Kbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :1072 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 7844 Kbps
The throughput of Best Efforts (BE) classes achieved during the test is - 16.91:22.76:60.33 (SBE:NBE:PBE)
These figures represent the ratio while sententiously passing Sub BE, Normal BE and Priority BE marked traffic.
Upload speed achieved during the test was - 614 Kbps
Additional Information:
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 448 Kbps

It's been doing this a lot lately, ie giving throughput way faster than sync. I wonder if you have been moved to IPStream Connect, it would be worth asking support. What is your d/s sync speed?

There's something odd going on... when I tried to run it using Safari it hung (comprehensively- I had to abend), it worked on Camino but, after asking for my phone number, didn't ask for further authorisation.

Results were OK though.

Downstream sync is steady at 8,128 kbps. Upstream varies 832-896 kbps. My line was transferred to 21CN in April this year before which updream sync was static at 832 kbps.

Edited by ARD (Sun 12-Sep-10 17:10:18)

I was unable to complete a test for about 6 months after the latest reincarnation. I reported it to support and Miriam passed on the info to BT. I've only used this tester successfully twice. The first time I was asked for my phone numbe plus user ID. Today, my phone number was enough. Agreed. Very odd.

I'm not surprised, as Bill says, it's having a cranky period lately.

It's never been the easiest page to get to work, but I've been using it without (too many!) problems for several weeks since I went to FTTC (tbb results have been a bit anomalous).

It was fine up until yesterday, asking for a user ID every time

In reply to a post by rikbean:

it's having a cranky period lately.

I think that when they added the bit for FTTC they broke the rest of it

It's proably due to reincarnate again.

You get that feeling, don't you, Bill. Something similar happened when they launched the ADSL2+ version.

Working again on Safari, but still not asking for a user ID.

Never could see the point of all that anyway, the phone number should be enough!

It's from BT, Bill, they specialise in pointlessness.

I�ve just run another BT Speed Test. Here�s the result:

Download speed achieved during the test was - 7561 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 2000-7150 Kbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :0 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 0 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 7150 Kbps
The throughput of Best Efforts (BE) classes achieved during the test is - 12.76:23.47:63.77 (SBE:NBE:PBE)
These figures represent the ratio while sententiously passing Sub BE, Normal BE and Priority BE marked traffic.
The results of this test will vary depending on the way your ISP has decided to use these traffic classes.

I haven�t been able to count on the reliability of the BT Tester or, indeed, any broadband speedtester since my line was upgraded to 21CN back in April. I don't have a speed issue but if I did I would not be able to send accurate data to IDNet. Can anybody offer an explanation?

Edited by ARD (Wed 27-Oct-10 16:31:15)

It's broke, I've tried it on the same day using IE, Safari and Opera and got from 10% download speed over my connection speed to over 150% download speed. Seems to be happening on exchanges that have been upgraded to the 21CN network

There are suspicions that the WBC link to the BT speedtester may bypass some things that normal traffic doesn't, it's certainly been giving strange results for some time.

Whether this is down to incompetenceaccident or design is anyone's guess.

That about sums it up, Bill, though you left out a 'lack of'.