tdewhurst

Thanks mate. I tried this and never got as high as 2Mbps. Mostly hovered between 1-1.5meg. Same as the speed tests (apart from Avonline's) I fully get your cynicism. The thing is, in the fine print in my contract, they 'guarantee' an average of 6meg download. The problem I have, of course, is that despite all my tests being much lower than 6meg their test shows 18meg.

I live in a rural area with very poor broadband via BT line and no cable service. Satellite broadband offered 20Mbps download speed which is like heaven for me. £35 per month for 20gb at 20meg from Avonline using Tooway seemed like a reasonable deal. However, having deployed my satellite solution over a year ago, my download speed has never exceeded 6Mbps with a 'normal' reading of around 2-3Mbps. This is consistent across all speed testing sites/apps. Avonline support said they didn't trust speed testing sites and directed me to the speed test facility on their own site. Lo and behold, their website speed test shows something like 18-20Mbps. Am I missing something? By the way, I carried out speed tests by hot wiring the Tooway modem to my desktop without going through the wireless network. Hope you can help