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Hello Frank, thank you for your comprehensive and informative reply, it is much appreciated. My internet connects to a radio transmitter tower across the Towy Valley about 2 miles away via a dish on my house. I am pleased to inform you that, since my last post, my internet provider has replaced the dish with an upgraded one. Here are my new speeds!!!

11 October 2024 39º N 31º W Hello Steven WJ Richards. I hope you are well My internet communications 10 to 15 years ago was unique in two ways. The first one was done with ISP two satelite dIshes link with 210 meters on 80 meters self supported towers for ADSL distribution. The second was earth to satelite geostationary orbit, at 35,786 km (22,236 mi) in altitude above Earth's equator to earth for ADSL distribution.I never mesured the latency but was high. The internet speed was 4Mbps and we paid for 12 Mbps. Your internet is from 4G ? What is your internet speed? What is the latency at TMN London Server (auto mode) ? 4G is better than ADSL. Do you have sheep or goats in your paradise? and your antenna is safe from the animals ? I am also testing with TMN and this was my last results and observation: Today, the Amazon Latency test at TMN and Ookla Speedtest is similar for London. We don't know if Amazon have servers in the countries with Shopps/Stores-Business ? All the tests below was done by wireless with ISP router and DNS. (5m from the router in a strait line) With warm Wi-Fi 5 on Intel modem AC 20-160Mhz on the PC and the router with 160 MHz bandwidth channel, 1733 Mhz all the results should be a little bit better. We factory reset the router 4 times a year. We use TMN server in London for speed test because it is closer to my router LINX LON1 - 195.66.224.91 - LINX LON2 - 195.66.236.91 I hope you answer my questions. Kind regards.

Reading the speed between their server and your computer is not really testing the internet speed. Doesn't matter how you connect. You're not testing the Internet if you don't actually go out to the Internet. Testing against your ISP's servers isn't going out to the Internet. That's why TestMy.net is here. Your ISP has control over the quality of peering and bandwidth in and out of their network. If your ISP is in the UK, then it should be a very quick hop over to my UK servers. As long as your ISP is delivering that won't affect the final result. There would be little to no difference if all the connections between are running with capacity available. Any good ISP in that scenario would have at least multiple 10 GbE peers, meaning that the route between the ISP and TestMy.net should never be the weakest link... unless it's over capacity. It's a red flag if an ISP tells you that only testing against their server's is accurate. And like I said, it doesn't make sense in the first place. Your ISP's servers are not the Internet, that's your host's network... before the Internet. It's a part of the Internet but if that's your host, their network is your network. A step above your local area network but we're not really out to the wider Internet. TestMy.net is actually testing your connection out to the Internet.