Broadband speed tests
Living, as we do, in a rural location some 4miles from civilisation, we get a very poor broadband speed. It seems that BTare unable to persuade high speed electrical bits to travel down 4 miles ofcopper cable when all their mates have the luxury of fibre optic travel. However,I digress, sampling 3 random broadband speed test sites they all (incredibly) comeback with the same answer of 3.4 megathings. Two sites completed the test in 12seconds, the third took 30 seconds. In the middle of the test the ‘clock’ of the slow one stuck at 50% for ages. The cynic in me smells something ratty here. Are they saying that during actual download the speed is indeed 3.4 but there is an awful lot ofwaiting time between the packets – but we don’t count that sir because it’s beyond our control?