[iyonix-support] Re: Iyonix broadband access speeds

Andrew Pinder <Andrew.Pinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My broadband ISP (Waitrose) provides a speed tester.  The highest figure
> I've ever got out of that is about 1.9 Mbps.  I've just run a test on the
> BT speedtester site (http://www.speedtester.bt.com) using IE6 on a
> Win98SE PC and got a figure of 4368kbps for throughput.  Two minutes
> later I got 1.54 Mbps via the Waitrose site using Firefox 2 on an Iyonix.
> Both computers were connected at 100 Mbps via a Safecom ADSL modem
> router. Why the 3 to 1 ratio in speeds?  Is it just my Iyonix or is this
> typical?

The javascript based speed testers do not give accurate results with either
RISC OS Firefox or Oregano 2/3. As mentioned time a large file stored on
your ISP's webspace.

Cheers
---Dave

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