BT speed test significantly faster than the independents?

doubleoseven

Just upgraded to BT Full Fibre 100, which is 150 Mbps down and 30mbps up and guaranteed at 100mbps. 

I tested with the BT wholesale speed checker and it comes up 200mbps! 

However, I tested about 5 different ones found on the search engines and they're all showing c50mb/s. 

Can anyone technical in these things spread any light on why the large discrepancy prior to my going back to them?

Cheers, 

Neil_Jones

Are you doing these speed tests wired to the router?  Don't do them wireless, it's not a fair result if you do them wireless.

JJ_Egan

Yes sometimes the FTTP will show higher for me .

Often the other testers connect to different  server locations and may not be your nearest.

doubleoseven

Neil_Jones said:

Are you doing these speed tests wired to the router?  Don't do them wireless, it's not a fair result if you do them wireless.

Yes, speed test is wired into a iMac. 

Point is, when I use the BT speed check, it was 202mbps, and when I used 5 of the most popular ones from an internet search, such as Which? they all came out averaging 50.

That is quite a big discrepancy. 

doubleoseven

JJ_Egan said:

Yes sometimes the FTTP will show higher for me .

Often the other testers connect to different  server locations and may not be your nearest.

So basically, BT offer a 'speed guarantee' to connect to their own servers

https://www.bt.com/help/broadband/what-is-bt-s-stay-fast-guarantee-?s_cid=con_email_SKCI_OrderConfirmed_SpeedGuarantee

JJ_Egan

Or the others are poor measures .

matelodave

AFAIK BT speed test are to the WAN side of the router whereas others test through to your computer and take into account wifi and any other processing

littleboo

doubleoseven said:

JJ_Egan said:

Yes sometimes the FTTP will show higher for me .

Often the other testers connect to different  server locations and may not be your nearest.

So basically, BT offer a 'speed guarantee' to connect to their own servers

https://www.bt.com/help/broadband/what-is-bt-s-stay-fast-guarantee-?s_cid=con_email_SKCI_OrderConfirmed_SpeedGuarantee

Yes of course, no ISP will guarantee performance other than within their own network.

mohammed1111

What do the router stats say?