i get lower download speeds on tbb test files and speedtests.

than most sites

some sort of routing issue ?

You probably don't have the half speed issue. The namesco speedtest is reliable (I find).
The vodafone server is always a little dodgey. I wasn't sure which one of the two played up for me so I asked you to do both.

On think broadband I see 14Mbps. If I run a YouTube download at 1080p it goes at 8Mb/s

Most speedtests can't handle FTTC speeds. The namesco ones a good one as they have the capacity to test correctly.... Overall I find speedtests just totally unreliable. I easily get my full 80Mbps speeds yet speedtests say otherwise.

A good test is to download iTunes & run 2 full 1080P videos on YouTube. Then look in task manager (windows) or activity monitor (mac). See if that appears to match up. Do these things simultaneously.
Eg if you connect via Ethernet you'll see the connection at 100Mbps. You're looking to see it hit 30% or above.

On OSX it just shows the current download speed as a total.

That's a far better test

Edited by ukhardy07 (Tue 13-Nov-12 03:57:42)

I think so

It did the same on virginmedia and now on Sky too. I just don't bother with it .

OK cheers, well at least all my torrents are 1-1 ratio now I find it hard to believe that my upload on torrents is at max or more, sometimes 11Mbs and my download struggles to hit 12Mbs , time will tell.

I just downloaded a download manager, so I could see my download speeds, as Chrome and IE hide them now, I started to Get FiFA demo at 480MB and it was downloading at 4.9Mbs and would take 1min 12 seconds, so I guess Thats full speed

Edited by garbageguy (Tue 13-Nov-12 08:08:03)