disorganisesydney

I'm using the software version running as a VM. I've tried disabling the proxy part of it and got a similar result. So now I just fired up another VM and bypassed the UTM entirely (to 'force' traffic the UTM, I put everything on a different network with the UTM having the route to the router) by being on the same network as the router and using the router as the default gateway. I still got a 'max' of 174Mb to the UK https://testmy.net/db/32FuiQXIr You may notice I also swapped ISP's, so I've ruled out there being something 'odd' in the AussieBB network, since Superlook gets similar (thought not as ridiculous) results. What I have noticed, is that running on my main PC I don't see greater than 100Mb - at least not so far. So *maybe* the other PC I was running the GB test from was maxing CPU and that causes some timing issues which affects the result? Presumably the VM could be the same

Hi, I had some bandwidth issues the other night; been on NBN (Australia) for about 3 weeks with a 100/40 plan, and I was seeing sub 10Mb on the download side using the official speed test app. I had noticed because Netflix looked poor quality. I failed to do a test using a wired device (doh!). Anyhow, next day I thought - wouldn't it be nice to automate a regular test so I could have some history? And google brought me here I didn't even need to create a script, awesome! I'd like to measure both locally and overseas, and that's where I got stuck. The multithread option didn't seem to do what I expected; i.e., measure more than one destination in a reportable manner so I could see over, say, a 24 hr period how the bandwidth looked like to London, or US central. Instead it seems to aggregate into an unsplittable result. I then tried multiple browsers tabs, only to find they shared the destination info. Two different browsers - same. So I've ended up with; Running a local (Sydney) test on my PC Running a UK test on another PC - with it NOT logged in else it ends up with both PC's doing the same destination. So question 1: Did I misunderstand the multithread and would it give me what I want? (graphs for Sydney, graphs for UK, and graphs for US) On my UK test, I'm getting odd results. Min 87Mb, middle 156Mb, Max 657Mb. The Sydney test (94Mb) proves I'm not suddenly getting a Gb connection It *looks* like caching to me, but I thought I read the data was randomly generated each time? So question 2: What could be some reasons that a test would imply speeds far exceeding my connection speed? FWIW; yes, I have a proxy in between. I'm running Sophos UTM - however, even that *was* caching, it should be irrelevant when the data is randomised shouldn't it? And I don't get the odd results for the Sydney tests. thanks Dave