Sky (Siro) insisting on using desktop app to test speeds

dvega

So I recently changed from Eir to 1G Sky (through siro)and when i had tested the speeds myself after the technician had left i found i was only getting 120/130 Mbps. When I rang sky they told me to download the ookla app and not test it on speedtest.net through chrome. Then specifically asked to test it through digitemp (Dublin server). It shot up to 700 MBps but only though that server and only through the desktop app, anything else i tried are very low speeds.

Anyone why this is? I can't find much online about it

ED E

Extensions.


Avoids idiot users trying to speedtest through their VPN or AV suites scanner and getting horrid results.



Download this and watch the speed.

https://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/gentoo.org/releases/amd64/12.1/livedvd-amd64-multilib-2012.1.iso

tuxy

Sounds reasonable to me. The app removes many of the possible poor software configurations the end user may have. Also many of the servers on speedtest are still unable to support such high speeds, the's not Sky's fault.