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Speedtest.net by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Find out what your download and upload speeds really are.

Been using speedtest for quite some time. They even have an app for the iPhone.

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Would like to have faster upload, but just can't afford it.

At work, on the guest network, using an iPad...

Download: 33.79Mbps
Upload: 33.93Mbps

On Chrome on a PC on Ethernet, on the office network...

Download: 90.82Mbps
Upload: 95.2Mbps

This may be a little overkill for gaming...

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Century Link... :(
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Over priced Rogers...

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Who is your provider and a what cost?

Fios

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At home on an iPad on wifi about 30 feet away and downstairs...http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1494910949.png

I will try on Friday while on Ethernet.

This is from my desktop at work. I'm at a research university...

Time Warner (now Spectrum) installed less than 10 minutes ago.


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At the office - House is about twice as fast

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30 bucks a month for 100/100 via fibre. I have 7 carriers to chose from on fibre, 4 carriers to choose from on ADSL and three carriers to chose from on 4G.

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There is a problem with these internet speed tests. A couple problems really which is why you are finding variability..

1. You are not measuring speed at all, you are measuring throughput capacity. The (propagation) speed of a signal over fiber is about the same as a signal over copper. Add in very necessary but comparably very slow devices to boost and route the signal along the way and it’s a wash. But you are not so concerned with speed to transfer 1 bit of data, if you want to stream a movie and that is more like a constant stream of semi trucks. Those “semi trucks” are more affected by routing slowdowns so “speed” of signal is irrelevant.
2. The “Internet” is not a single place and nothing has a direct connection. Most likely your work computer goes out through your corporate headquarters which could be in Texas even though you live in Maine and who knows where the speed rating site is. If you want to find out then download a utility called traceroute which can show you all the different routers your signal traverses. That is more significant and variable than what this speed site says.
3. People also confuse latency with throughput capacity for a “slow” link. Latency is especially critical with gaming. When you are on the phone talking you expect the other person to say “ok” every once in a while or you will stop talking. Computers are the same. You do not want that movie site to stop sending and that is often set by negotiated protocol window sizes on each side. If you have small window then any link can seem jittery so you can cover up high latency on a big movie download but not with gaming and this is more about your connection to other people rather than a speedtest site.
4. The measurement changes constantly. The route your traffic takes can change several times every second. The conditions on each of those routes and devices change constantly and other traffic will have higher priority. The traffic you send for the speed test has a completely different priority and route than the gaming you do a second later.

There are lots of other things like max packet sizes, error correction, caching hosts, backbone routing levels etc. Now "speed tests" can be very accurate between themselves but have little to do with anything else you are doing over the internet.

It is not like the old telephone system where you got a dedicated link for the duration of your call. Today it is all broken up into tiny packets that all go their own way. If you want deterministic speed then drag a wire from your computer to every other computer you want to connect to like the old days and you will quickly realize why things went this way.

my cats breath smells like cat food

This is what the Internet was for... Research.

WOW. Advertised at 30. They say it will be faster if I hook up the ethernet cable. Who the hell drags around a laptop with a cable ??

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Home internet

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You are mixing up things. The test is measuring speed and median roundtrip delay for ping packets to nearest test server. "Necessary devices to boost signal" are called Optical Amplifiers and add almost no delay and are not slow at all. Basically, they are loops of doped fibre pumped by laser. There is no conversion of signal...amplification is done in light domain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_amplifier

Routing does create some delay. Of course, delay will be proportional to amount of hops and physical (and logical) length of the route.

Not mixing up at all, I said (boost and route) as a collection of devices.
You cannot simply boost a signal all along unless you have a direct fiber-fiber connection between hosts as I said. Even then the signal would need regeneration for long hauls but that scenario we understand is irrelevant. (we do right?)

That means switches and routers along the path and the most significant delay wise (not just some delay but orders of massively greater)- routers on the path change signal delay from microseconds to milliseconds. That is forever in network terms, like GT3 racers having to stop each lap and wait for their number at DMV office. Add in 10 of those routers on the path and the variability and you see is completely up to routing algorithms, capacity, priority etc. Delay is far from proportional or deterministic as you say. What is the point of measuring a GT3 cup race with the DMV wait times thrown in?

Besides "ping" is ICMP control traffic, tiny and carrying no data which gets a different priority than data traffic so as I said it has little bearing on actual data traffic and not even talking about Natting or content inspection delays.

I don't know what loops of doped fiber pumped by laser but it sounds dirty. :) Loops in fiber are bad and degenerate signal as light bounces, not strengthen. It's all doped-I think you mean single mode fiber but you may be looking at the straightaway and forgetting about the DMV.

Identical to my Frontier service, actually embarrassing.

Still on WiFi but on a Mac:

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Also this was while my daughter was streaming music...

84.3... 6.21 Comcast cable