Broadband Speed Checker going funny on Virgin Media?

I have been getting very bizzarre results for my download speed from a large number of test sites. Speedtest.net which is normally very good is also giving me some very strange results no matter what server I use.

I am supposed to get 20Mb which I am getting but the results it gives me are 70Mb if not more.



I think it may have something to do with VM introducing 100Mb broadband, but I wanted to see if anyone else was getting these strange readings with Virgin Media or any other broadband provider.

Looks like Virgin has finally increased the upload speeds.

I have now upgraded my BB from 20Mb to 50Mb and this is the speed test result I got.

This is mine:



What do the figures in your router show? These should be equal or greater than the figures shown above.



Converting to kbps, I get the following result.

Download: 5550.08 < 6270
Upload: 911.36 < 1123

Dwarf said:

This is mine:



What do the figures in your router show? These should be equal or greater than the figures shown above.



Converting to kbps, I get the following result.

Download: 5550.08 < 6270
Upload: 911.36 < 1123

I have got an engineer comming out on Friday as there seems to be a problem with my internet connection, I am not getting no where near the 50Mbs.

Most of us would do anything to get a speed like you've reported. What sort of problems are you having with your connection?

Dwarf said:

Most of us would do anything to get a speed like you've reported. What sort of problems are you having with your connection?

The readings are not correct readings, but the most I seem to be getting is it peaking at 36Mbs, but it averages at 20Mbs, so basically I am paying for 50Mbs and only getting 20Mbs.