Getting a download speed greater than my "up to" speed

tafelmoneysaver

I'm an certainly not in the complaining camp about this!

I decided to run a speed test this evening (at speedtest.net) and whilst I expect the site to report slightly lower than the actual speed being delivered for all sorts of sensible reasons I was surprised when it reported I've got a >100 Mbps download speed from my Superfast BT Infinity which I thought could only deliver up to 76Mbps!

I tried the test a few more times and about 50% of the tests were >100Mbps.

Can you ever take these results with more than a pinch on salt given that there are so many variables?

closed

take with a pinch of salt, they are an indicator of speed, some are flawed, try a different tester

Mobeer

If I try speedtest.net I get reasonable figures, if I try broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk then I get huge numbers. All these sites seem a bit flaky, though I suspect that using lots of them multiple times could work better.

grumpycrab

With BT? Then use http://speedtest.btwholesale.com
(also useful if you want to know the profile of any BT number)

John_Gray

Are you running an Internet Security package?
Some time ago the Kaspersky firewall was known to do some form of buffering which completely threw the less-intelligent speed checkers (like speedtest.net, which reports the highest figure encountered).
Me, I found the fastest my 10 Mbps cable line ran was 43 Mbps!