Which? Magazine Speed Checker

Sterlingtimes

Which? sent an email to me today promoting their broadband speed checker. This reports impossible speeds: 84.3 download and 28.2 upload for my Talk Talk fibre broadband.

Would someone else try it please to see how it reports:

https://broadbandtest.which.co.uk/

oldagetraveller

Inaccurate! I'm on Plusnet's 40/2 FTTC package. Which? shows 40.1 down and 5.7 up.:rotfl:The latency is way off the mark too.
Ookla speedtest and BT consistently show I'm on 37.5 down and 1.9 up which is about right - not far from cabinet.:)

LazyTyper

I got:

Response time (latency)
106 ms

Download speed
70.6 Mbps

Upload speed
23.3 Mbps


Not really sure how it calculates those figures as my VDSL2 (FTTC) syncs at 70,482 Kbps download and 20,000 Kbps upload. I'm guessing those must be stats from the sending sides which don't reflect the actual throughput.

Anyway, beta.speedtest.net reports:

PING
20 ms

DOWNLOAD
64.69 Mbps

UPLOAD
17.71 Mbps

These figures are far more believable.

Mister_G

I get

Ping : 195ms (must be going via the Moon!)

Download : 31 Mb

Upload : 2.4 Mb


Speedtest.net and BT Wholesale tester both give

Ping : 20 - 35ms

Download : 17Mb

Upload : 3.2Mb

Which is what I normally get.

So something is certainly not quite right with it.

steveE2

Which:
34ms
85.1 down
14.1 up

Speedtest.net:
13ms
74.45 down
21.17 up

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/6182445313

Kim_13

Which:

136ms
21.3 down
4.5 up

Speedtest

9ms
36.16 down
10.34 up

Sterlingtimes

Thank you all, so Which? which tests and is so critical of other people's products is promoting its speed tester which is misleading and not fit for purpose.

My results:

Which? Ping 84 ms, down 84.3 Mbps, up 28.2 Mbps
Speedtest Ping 10ms, down 68.2 Mbps, up 18.7 Mbps

Which? is outside the range of possibility.

AndyPK

Was correct for me on asdl. 6.9mbps

Robisere

Miles out!

speedtest.net (I use these to check my Sky speeds every few days, and save them as a Snipping Tool pic): -

Latency: 26 ms Download: 13.21 Mbps Upload: 0.59 Mbps.

Which speedtester: -
Latency: 211ms Download: 14.5 Mbps Upload: 112.7 Mbps

I know it's All Fool's Day, but didn't that become ineffective after 12 noon?

Kim_13

Sterlingtimes wrote: »

Thank you all, so Which? which tests and is so critical of other people's products is promoting its speed tester which is misleading and not fit for purpose.

My results:

Which? Ping 84 ms, down 84.3 Mbps, up 28.2 Mbps
Speedtest Ping 10ms, down 68.2 Mbps, up 18.7 Mbps

Which? is outside the range of possibility.

Interesting to see that they are overreading rather than underreading in your case (different from the other results here I believe.)

I also have a different app for speed tests and its results are broadly in line with Speedtest.

brewerdave

Miles out for me on my ADSL2+ connection.
Ping ~ 10 X what other sites show.
Download - @ 17.7Mbps is greater than the profile for the line (~16.8Mbps)
Upload - @ 4.2 Mbps - over 10X what I actually achieve!!

Deffo useless!