Curious test: does your ISP unshaped speedtest ?

[Necuno]

I can see this working on a few here

I really got sick of all of OpenWeb`s bull...t

Why fight them? Just leave and find another ISP.

PS. Do a test like this to determine how much Openweb throttles your downloads:

Upload 2 identical files to the same server.
Name the one anything ie. download.zip
Name the second one and add the word "speedtest" to the file ie. download.speedtest.zip

Now test the speeds on both.
The download.speedtest one will break the speed test record whilst the other one will get throttled to death.

I use a premium service for downloading and it`s possible to change the download file`s name before downloading so while I was with OpenWeb I just added .speedtest. to all my download files and they came down at full speed 24/7

Still left OpenWeb and it`s been my best decision yet concerning ISP`s

 

[Yuu]

nice find however i don't see this lasting long

 

[Necuno]

3D mark cheating all over again

 

[AntiGanda]

Interesting point, but I think Speedtest is prioritised for all ISPs. It explains why when you say downloads are slow, they ask you to run it and send them thespeed results. It will always be good, unless there is a ping spike or something.

 

[Basjohn]

Interesting point, but I think Speedtest is prioritised for all ISPs. It explains why when you say downloads are slow, they ask you to run it and send them thespeed results. It will always be good, unless there is a ping spike or something.

Pretty much why it's largely worthless for diagnostic purposes nowadays. I'd recommend the tool made by a fellow forumite on here instead. "Check your line tool" or so I believe it was called, I'm bit shocked atm that it wasn't stickied, incredibly useful.

 

[HavocXphere]

I'd be very surprised if that has any relevance whatsoever.

If anything they'll be looking at IP or top level domain, not whether "speedtest" is mentioned *somewhere* in the URL.

 

[kianm]

I'd be very surprised if that has any relevance whatsoever.

If anything they'll be looking at IP or top level domain, not whether "speedtest" is mentioned *somewhere* in the URL.

Makes more sense. Surely they'd just exclude the speedtest IPs from the shaping policies and not just some keyword

 

[kianm]

I'd recommend the tool made by a fellow forumite on here instead. "Check your line tool" or so I believe it was called, I'm bit shocked atm that it wasn't stickied, incredibly useful.

I am looking for this tool on the forums, if you can please point me to the post directly i'd appreciate it. Need to do some checks here thanks

 

[eddief1]

Makes more sense. Surely they'd just exclude the speedtest IPs from the shaping policies and not just some keyword

I think that it is almost impossible to obtain all the IP's required...if u take speedtest.net for example, they have multiple locations around the world, each with more than one server...im guessing keyword is the only way.