Anyone know of website other than speedtest.net that can test my TRUE bandwidth???
most ISPs should have their own speedtest. My ISPs seems to work pretty well and isn't too far way from you. linky
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Wadaya mean "TRUE" bandwidth?CapnNismo wrote:
Anyone know of website other than speedtest.net that can test my TRUE bandwidth???
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
I mean: they say I am supposed to get 8mbps, but I want to know what my actual is.
What's wrong with SpeedTest? oOCapnNismo wrote:
I mean: they say I am supposed to get 8mbps, but I want to know what my actual is.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
you could always open a couple of RS (or some other high bandwidth dl site) downloads and look at that speed
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Your modem should tell you your downstream rate
Speedtest is your TRUE bandwidth, as that's all the throughput you're gonna get from a server other than inside your ISP's own pool.
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Freezer7Pro wrote:
What's wrong with SpeedTest? oOCapnNismo wrote:
I mean: they say I am supposed to get 8mbps, but I want to know what my actual is.
Cheez wrote:
Speedtest is your TRUE bandwidth, as that's all the throughput you're gonna get from a server other than inside your ISP's own pool.
Not true.Cheez wrote:
Speedtest is your TRUE bandwidth, as that's all the throughput you're gonna get from a server other than inside your ISP's own pool.
Speedtest is only moderately reliable.
It is reliable, up to those 100Mbit lines. I benched 60Mbit on the school's 100/100 FIOS. Probably limited by the LAN.Bertster7 wrote:
Not true.Cheez wrote:
Speedtest is your TRUE bandwidth, as that's all the throughput you're gonna get from a server other than inside your ISP's own pool.
Speedtest is only moderately reliable.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
There's nothing wrong with Speedtest - I was just looking for a second opinion.
Went to the cable provider today and they say my maximum is 16Mbps - but I'm only getting ~5614 Mbps. Bullshit if you ask me.
Went to the cable provider today and they say my maximum is 16Mbps - but I'm only getting ~5614 Mbps. Bullshit if you ask me.
Depends a lot on the conditions. My line is about 30Mbit, but my modem is limiting it to 14-15, even if I basically live 50m from the building with the Sweden link.CapnNismo wrote:
There's nothing wrong with Speedtest - I was just looking for a second opinion.
Went to the cable provider today and they say my maximum is 16Mbps - but I'm only getting ~5614 Mbps. Bullshit if you ask me.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
Not very reliable. I've had numerous systems outperform speedtest benchmarks in real world performance. Proper tests I've conducted in the past on network clusters directly on the UK JANET backbone have confirmed this (with NS2 simulations of the network cluster performance being confirmed perfectly by the results of the experiment) - other more practical real world demonstrations include downloading torrents at over 1.4MBps when speedtest gives results of ~6000kbps (note the difference between bits and bytes there, or that last sentence won't make much sense). Speedtest doesn't give a clear enough idea of the speeds achievable through multiple connections and it is severely limited by this.Freezer7Pro wrote:
It is reliable, up to those 100Mbit lines. I benched 60Mbit on the school's 100/100 FIOS. Probably limited by the LAN.Bertster7 wrote:
Not true.Cheez wrote:
Speedtest is your TRUE bandwidth, as that's all the throughput you're gonna get from a server other than inside your ISP's own pool.
Speedtest is only moderately reliable.
It's fine as a general rule of thumb, but it's not especially accurate and can be slightly misleading.
The last time I tested my connection with ST it said my upload is lower than rated. So maybe Bertster is right.
It depends a lot on the server you're benching with. The recommended one isn't always the right one. SpeedTest gives me very accurate readings, I download at about 1.4-1.5MB/s, and SpeedTest reads 12000-13000kbps downstream, which is pretty much identical.Bertster7 wrote:
Not very reliable. I've had numerous systems outperform speedtest benchmarks in real world performance. Proper tests I've conducted in the past on network clusters directly on the UK JANET backbone have confirmed this (with NS2 simulations of the network cluster performance being confirmed perfectly by the results of the experiment) - other more practical real world demonstrations include downloading torrents at over 1.4MBps when speedtest gives results of ~6000kbps (note the difference between bits and bytes there, or that last sentence won't make much sense). Speedtest doesn't give a clear enough idea of the speeds achievable through multiple connections and it is severely limited by this.Freezer7Pro wrote:
It is reliable, up to those 100Mbit lines. I benched 60Mbit on the school's 100/100 FIOS. Probably limited by the LAN.Bertster7 wrote:
Not true.
Speedtest is only moderately reliable.
It's fine as a general rule of thumb, but it's not especially accurate and can be slightly misleading.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
Great if you're in the USA, but SUCKS for anyone in Europe.aimless wrote:
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
Just run a torrent client running some Linux distro for an hour.