In reply to a post by Skilty:

Just for arguments sake I did. Single threaded over ports 80 and 8080 came out at ~60mbps.

Ran the multi-threaded test over both ports 80 and 8080, again 60Mbps.

Same here. No difference between ports or threads.

Just to put the cat among the pigeons, Speedtest.net (Ookla), Pulsate or the beloved TBB speedtest all show the same speeds on my line. Why pick on Pulse8 when it is resold Talktalk.

Yes, a bit of a non story, though boosted by this site recycling it. Nice to see folks standing by Pulse8 - Quite a turnaround from the slagging off they and I took when I first switched to them.

Three speedtests nose to tail this evening.
http://postimg.org/image/vtnsq2fp7/
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5034806720
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

Time for TBB to get OOKLA to put this investigation to bed if they have influence.

Even if this was happening (not looked into it with detail as not fussed tbh) its nothing to do with Pulse8 as you and me know they have no control over the network.

Im not sure what an ISP would gain by doing this anyway? Its not like the BT checker that gives a rough speed estimate. A speestest can only be completed once you have switched so what incentive would any ISP have to exaggerated speeds?

No control over the network they supply is the sort of rubbish I often expect to find here. They have full control of profiles and everything TT themselves have.

They can control your line such as target noise margin and interleaving but i highly doubt they have control over which ports are or arent prioritised or throttled

In reply to a post by bobble_bob:

They can control your line such as target noise margin and interleaving but i highly doubt they have control over which ports are or arent prioritised or throttled

Either way, a long way off no control whatsoever.

Having control over your line isnt the same as tge network. I think i describe them as having no control and the way i meant it was no control over the network (so ports, throttling, blocking of p2p etc). Line control yes they do have control but that is different

Care to explain 'this site recycling it' - since we have not posted it to our news which is what I would presume you mean by recycling it