Internet speed freeks! Need halp. I've always used speedtest.net but I'm getting hugely varying readings from that to https://samknows.com/realspeed/ - from a brief look around the internet it seems speedtest isn't actually that reliable. But I can't find out if https://samknows.com/realspeed/ is. Any thoughts and opinions?
@thayer I believe that the SamKnows test is *very* local - you may literally be downloading from someone just down the road from you. That 'realspeed' doesn't even work on my BT/EE ADSL, so it's almost certainly a deal SamKnows & Virgin has for monitoring/testing.
With Virgin, the immediate area does share bandwidth, so it might be getting varying readings depending on what other people are doing - the 'noisy neighbours' problem.
OTOH, I did teach Sam PHP 20 years ago :D
@Alister yeah I was wondering this, thanks for saying so! I've basically run it across everything I can find and taken an average. I seem to be getting 700-1200 for a 1gb pipe so I guess I'm average it's acceptable. Also feeling pretty lucky I get anything above 500 at all tbh!