SG Broadband Community

In dealing with @home and some problems with my download/upload speeds they kept haveing me test at this place http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/index.html
I was wondering if any one else has used it or any like it and how accurate they felt it is?
Thanks

I personally don't think it is accurate at all. Different speeds evertime i do it.

Yeah thats how i felt never got close to the same results and results varied greatly from DSLreports

I have a 768kbit cap and it says I download
at 1600+ KBytes per sec.
So I would say not very accurate

Tests like that are never accurate, i don't know why they told you that site...

there really aren't any place that's gonna give you an accurate result

the ONLY places you should be quarenteed by your ISP to get good speeds with is your first or second hop on their network, and also within the @Home network, never leaving outside of it, if you can get good speeds and pings in their network then your setup is great and anything after that is the fault of a third party person or router or net traffic....

when i got upped to the level 2 techs they went by tracert results and ping results. was also told to check into the tweaks at this site for my particular OS. Least some of the techs there have good sence.
thanks for the replys

I agree with Brent, My provider has a speed test page that is only 2 hops to their server.
If you go outside of that you are dealing with others lines and who knows what the traffic is like there.

You will never get an accurate result, just a round about figure .

@Home just seems to suck lately!

Try calling them and see if they are willing to be square with you. If not then you need to hit them hard with major complaints, give them hell.

Don't give up....they will give first!

I don't like that test site either Sorry to say it, but the results are not even close to what i get in speeds

-Andrew

I personly think its the general instruments surfboard modem. soon as it was installed speeds were cut over half from 5Mbs downloads to just over 2Mbs my uploads are still good over 300Kbs but i really want my download speeds back. the first tech i talked to told me a router had gone down that monday my modem was replaced give it a couple days. two days later the problem wasn't fixed and my uploads were faster then my downloads and i was transfered to level 2 tech support where i was told to get the tweaks here and try and they did a modem push whitch they said was refresh the signal from @home to the modem. call back in 2 hours if no impovement. called back and decided it was a DNS server that was out since i wasn't pingable. but others I had ping me and run tracerts to me had no problem. was told to call back monday if no improvement. I also noticed my nic video sound ata controler and a couple other devices were all shareing IRQ9 i turned of the plug and play bios settings and reinstalled windows2k and my speeds have come up to what they are now 2Mbs/300Kbs not what i used to have but better then what it was. still thinking of calling in the morning and swearing my speeds are that of a 56k modem and see if any thing happens.

If you really want to test your speed use NetStaLive. This will give you your line speed more accurate then useing one off the the net. You can download it at www.analogx.com. I never use online speed test .They are not accurate. Give it a try if you want.

[ 02-23-2001: Message edited by: Storm90 ]