What is your fastest BT Wholesale Speed Test resul...

Hi,
Aplogies to the CL's if this is not the right forum but it definitely is speed related related. I tossed up where to post it but decided on here fuguring you will soon move it if you want to.
As the title suggests, and for a bit of fun, what is the fastest result you have got from the new BT Wholesale Speed Test ?
I'll kick off with this :-
Best regards,
dfenceman

Hi Keith,
I typed a long response but have lost it now ???
Right, I'll type it all again. You are right I am on ADSL as is the whole village. This result was obtained from the village school.
As you know, every speed test I have run on the "new" speed tester has returned a download speed in excess of my IP Profile and at times in excess of my downstream speed.
Under the County Councils cost saving, performance enhancing project the school has just had its wireless link replaced with 16 bonded copper pairs. This was projected to provide the school with 8Mbps, 2Mbps below all the other 250 odd in the county. I therefore asked the school to run a speed test to find out what it is actually getting and this was the result.
I thought it would provide a little light relief from what can be a very serious forum.
As I said in my OP I was unsure where to post it but I never expected you to move it ti Infinity, I thought it might be The Lounge. Neith of these are visited so frequently as the Speed/connection forum though.
Best regards,
dfenceman

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True, MMINSO, I can just go use some other word processor. (Thanks for the tip.) I'm sorry to laugh at your suggestion but you entirely missed the point of my keyboard input test when you told me to just delete the whole paragraph at once.
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