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Speed Test....very strange

tarakino · 2013-09-13 21:16:40

I have a 8mb conection and getting around 5.5mb. when i run a speed test on any website it shows normal results but when I do it on the UPC website I get a download speed of 70mb!! Did anyone come across this case? Thanks

13-09-2013 10:16pm

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tarakino

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I have a 8mb conection and getting around 5.5mb.
when i run a speed test on any website it shows normal results but when I do it on the UPC website I get a download speed of 70mb!!

Did anyone come across this case?

Thanks

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#2 13-09-2013 11:35pm

dave1982

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Nope mine is accurate, are you in a UPC area?

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#3 14-09-2013 5:06pm

Automan

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I'm on the 30Mb package with UPC (Max speed the scientific atlanta router is capable of) and was getting speeds of 85Mbs with different speed test websites (Definitely something shifty going on there).
Here is a link:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=86013042

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