Mavericks and TBBx1 Speed Test

Hi,

I have a computer running OS X Mavericks and a computer running Windows 7 64.

On the Windows machine (IE 11) I get the following speed test: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/13956...

On the Mac OS X machine (Opera 20) I get: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/13956...

Is there anyway I can improve the TBBx1 on OS X?

That's bizarre - there is no 'in principle' reason the results should be any different (although I *think* there are issues with the TBB tester in OSX).

Have you tried Speedtest,net?

In reply to a post by t22design:

Is there anyway I can improve the TBBx1 on OS X?

Yes- use Chrome or Firefox.

Safari (and, it seems, Opera) have a problem with Flash on OS X which causes them to top out at ~12.5Mbps, Chrome and Firefox don't suffer from it.

With Safari there's a warning about it at some point during the test, but don't know about Opera.

Thanks Billford. I actually got the warning about Firefox and Safari, so that was my reason for trying it on Opera.

After using Chrome on OS X, I got this result: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/13956...

So it seems to be the problem with the Flash plugin for OS X.

In reply to a post by t22design:

I actually got the warning about Firefox and Safari, so that was my reason for trying it on Opera.

I mis-remembered the message about which browsers were affected- the iMac has been away for some fairly radical surgery (paid for by AppleCare I'm glad to say!) and I've been using the Linux box.

After using Chrome on OS X, I got this result: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/13956...

That looks a lot better