in the past randomly it picks speed tests below 10mb (or 2mb as just happened) that is to low for 50mb + connections as some times it does not get the speed right (i can see in task manager its flat lineing the connection when it reports incorrect results)

i did the flash speed test as well 1 of them completed the download test in less then 1 second

So you are saying it picks a 2MB or 10MB file to download?

Care to share this task manager graph? Does the flat line agree with the speed we report? If yes, then you may just be suffering a hot peering link from Virgin Media.

In reply to a post by kwikbreaks:

IMO the BBMax speedtest doesn't transfer enough data for a reliable test on anything above ADSL speeds

I was shocked earlier on. On BBMax I often get 67Mb for my 60Mb connection. But tonight I got 75Mb! How am I getting that speed when it's 25% more than I'm supposed to get, and is it accurate? BBMAx is always the one that gives me the highest speeds. Meanwhile, I'm getting differing speeds elsewhere. TB giving me 57Mb java and 55Mb flash. Speed test.net gives me 62Mb on average but is currently fluctuating between 56Mb and 62Mb. http://www.speedtester.bt.com is giving me a consistent 66 to 67Mb. I've no idea why they all vary so much but I wonder what I'm really getting and which is the true speed tester.

I have another question. VM engineer came to my house on saturday and fitted a 10 dB forward path attenuator as my power levels were over 11 dBmV and are now down to 0. I asked him the benefit of this and he said it would ensure my download speeds never go below 60Mb. Well apparently not as I'm still seeing sub 60's, albeit not very much. So, is he talking rubbish?

Our current testers use 1024 rather than 1000 for the maths, so tend to under read, and we show life time average, rather than a peak speed.

We plan to show both figures in the future, so that people can see what their burst speed and sustained speeds are like.

In short most of the testers are accurate, just that they may be showing different figures due to different test methodologies.

my vm download speed has now gone back to between 100mbs and 90mbs since the cable upgrade.