My broadband speed tests

Following on from my post about the SamKnows.com monitoring initiative, I decided to do a check on my broadband speed, firstly I used the very pretty graphical test at speedtest.net initially it chose a recommended server in Maidenhead and I only got a pathetic 9345Kbps download, switching to an alternative in London I got the following results (17397Kbps download and 703Kbps upload).



Next I check the speed test at Broadband-expert.co.uk and got the following (19.9Mbps download and 704 Kbps upload)



So seems my 20Mbps connection is preforming well.

On the broadband-expert.co.uk website it also has accumulated results (click speed test results button at bottom of screen) for most of the UK ISPs and my ISP VirginMedia seems to come out pretty well, despite the introduction of even more extreme and complicated traffic shaping schemes.