My partner recently left Orange due to only getting 3Mb which was not enough. We were getting 6Mb from AOL for a month. We are now getting 0.4Mb at the best of times with AOL. So appreciate your 1Mb from Orange, you never know when you might miss it!
Speedtest from the UK using AOL Broadband In Firefox
Speedtest from the USA using AOL Broadband In Firefox
Speedtest from Spain using AOL Broadband In Firefox
Now then, i decided to use a different browser and for a laugh i used AOL Browser 9 (i think its version 9 anyway)
I couldn't believe my eyes, still a snail on loading the speedtest site and the rest of the web but look of those speeds using AOL BROWSER!
Speedtest from the UK using AOL Broadband and AOL Browser
Speedtest for the USA using AOL Broadband and AOL Browser
Speedtest from Spain using AOL Broadband and AOL Browser
The morale of the story is, appreciate what you get from Orange because my GF is now in an even worse contract for 24 months!!!
I take your point that something isn't right if using one browser gives significant speed difference over another - you need to investigate that. I have never seen any appreciable difference in browsers (I tested Firefox against IE8 and everything is identical).
Second point is with the speedtest.net website. Of course you are going to get different speeds from different parts of the world; I can't see what use they think that is. What you need is an average. If all the websites I visit were hosted on my nearest server then woo hoo:
If they are all on this server in california then not so good:
And of course, different testers give different results.
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