(a) may be valid. (b) is fishy (a) may be valid because it may be that your ISP has a better set of peering relationships towards your VPN server and your company's ISP has better peering relationships towards the Speedtest server than your ISP has towards the Speedtest server. I'm not saying that IS the case, but I have seen instances where such results were, in fact, perfectly legitimate for such reasons. Owen On Apr 3, 2013, at 17:20 , Chris Hindy <chindy@lwpca.net> wrote:
I can run two speedtest.net session side by side on my home network on one laptop, and over VPN to my employer's Long Island locale on a second, pointed at the same speedtest server, over the same wifi and ADSL and have the VPN connection report speeds that are (a) 50% better on VPN than not; and, (b) exceed my ADSL's hard cap by 10+ mbps. That smells a bit fishy to me, all in all.
-c
On 03-04-2013 18:02 , "Nick Hilliard" <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
On 3 Apr 2013, at 22:48, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
(If anybody's got evidence of it reporting more than the link is technically capable of, feel free to correct me...)
I've seen speedtest.net give results significantly greater than the physical bw of the client's network link.
Nick