The only way to be sure and see the actual sync is to unlock your Openreach modem, but you DO NOT want to touch the Openreach modem until Saturday if you were installed today. As RobertoS told me, the Openreach DLM is watching the line very carefully until then and you don't want it to do anything silly.

The Sky router gets the same data as the modem. The sync showed at 192.168.0.1 in the sky router is identical to anything shown in the openreach modem. Tried and tested.

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The Sky router gets the same data as the modem. The sync showed at 192.168.0.1 in the sky router is identical to anything shown in the openreach modem. Tried and tested.

The Openreach modem CAN resync but the Sky router only updates when its power cycled - as the sync information is pulled from Sky's systems, not from the openreach modem.

Like that tester, it shows. as opposed to this.

Something weird goes on with the tbb meter on the upload.

I also don't understand how one can be different of 3mb download and 2mb upload?

Especially when these speedtests back up what the BT one is telling me

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2318718445.png

http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/results/178180291.png

Edited by deleted (Mon 19-Nov-12 20:53:35)

Hmmm never really looked into it but something to do with the routing of traffic.

i only use xilos or namesco servers the rest can't handle the speed.

I tried the BT Beta and got 38Mbs, but the thinkBroadband showed 23Mbs, while namesco on speedtest.net showed 36Mbs, its all confusing, my speeds seem to have rised by about 5-10Mb since instal last week

Did you double check the graph profile from the speed tests?

If it is variable, rather than a nice flat line, then to be expected to see a variation as not all tests show the same number, some are a burst, some an average and some something in between.

The variation of 5% that was present on 0.5 Mbps connections due to various factors is still there with fast connections, which means at 30 Mbps a 5% variation can be the difference between a 28 Meg result or 32 Meg result.

I have been spending a lot of time testing lately and are finding some tests that actually go faster than the connection I am using. Then other days you can test on one tester and get wildly varying results, when the day before it was a stable as a lump of gold.

We use 1024 currently, but know the others use 1000 which explains why when displaying Mbps we are often slower.

We are going to merge with the rest of the world, which will probably have people thinking we suddenly got 5% faster, and a raft of other changes are on the way. A key aim is to provide information so people can see enough information to understand the result if they so wish.

Files are downloading at around 2392.1 kb/s using Opera and via direct ethernet.

This suggest around a 20mb connection, does it not?

If by kb/s you mean Kilo Bytes per second then yes

VERY often the place you are downloading from is the bottleneck.

E.g. even apple and microsoft sometimes cannot max out my connection.

Download 3 files at once from different reliable sources. Add them up. If this totals 20Mbps I would say there's a problem. Otherwise it's probably just that the servers are slower than 40Mbps due to congestion etc.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Mon 03-Dec-12 22:31:46)