New local connection testing site with extra mapping goodness

[guest2013-1]

Wow, you now hold top spot for ADSL! What kind of line is it?

You know that 16.7 mega bits per second though. I'm just reading up on the different symbols and getting to the bottom of the 1024 vs 1000 debate. Once I've got my head around it I'll make sure the website is consistent throughout.

It's a 4mbps ADSL line

 

[guest2013-1]

To give you an idea, there are 8 bits in a byte

There are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte
There are 1024 kilobytes in a megabyte
And there are 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte

4 mbps is thus 4096 kilobits per second. So 4096 divided by 8 (8 bits to a byte) gives you a theoretical download speed of 512 Kb/s. I say theoretical because your line is usually only effective between 80-90% and not the full 100% (at least here in S.A)

So 80% of 512 Kb/s should give you around the download speed we usually (or should be able) to achieve.

I'm sorry to say this but why start a bandwidth speed monitoring website if you're not clued up on the difference between bits and bytes etc?

 

[baudmap]

I've made a few changes to the tests - all described on the help pages. Let me know how it goes.
Cheers,
Greg

 

[TheLoot]

Well, I'm on a 384 kbps ADSL line and my results were as follows:

Performance matches: 384k ADSL
Time to load an average web page: ~13sec
Time to download 10MB file: ~16min 27sec

So pretty spot on with the line speed Just one thing though, I can usaully get well over 100 MB an hour (+-130 MB) so the last one is way off, I'll usually get 10MB in about 5 minutes

 

[cyberarmy]

I am on 256kbps WIFI, told me mine is 384kbps connection....

 

[baudmap]

I am on 256kbps WIFI, told me mine is 384kbps connection....

Thanks for the feedback, but I'd like to clarify.
I assume that you were talking about this this result, right ?
It said

Connection speed matches 384kbps ADSL

, right? This is a guess based on the tested download average speed of 118311.7340 and average upload speed of 36601.0820.

The code looks up those numbers (see lookup table below) and finds those results fall above a 56k modem but below 384k ADSL. Unfortunately it's not aware of 256k wifi because I don't have theoretical values for that connection type yet.

Based on feedback here, I'll change the summary to focus on the actual tested values more and re-word line type to emphasize that it's not a guess of the tested line but an indication of it's relative performance.

Cheers,
Greg

Line type lookups

var AJAXOmeterLineTypes = new Array(
{name: '14.4k Modem' , up: 14400.0 , down: 14400.0 }
, {name: '28.8k Modem' , up: 28800.0 , down: 28800.0 }
, {name: '56k Modem' , up: 56000.0 , down: 56200.0 }
, {name: '384k ADSL' , up: 128000.0 , down: 384000.0 }
, {name: '512k ADSL' , up: 256000.0 , down: 512000.0 }
, {name: '1M ADSL' , up: 384000.0 , down: 1024000.0 }
, {name: '1.5M ADSL' , up: 384000.0 , down: 1536000.0 }
, {name: '4M ADSL' , up: 384000.0 , down: 4096000.0 }
, {name: '7M ADSL' , up: 1000000.0 , down: 7000000.0 }
, {name: 'High Speed Wireless' , up: 7000000.0 , down: 7000000.0 }
, {name: '10M Ethernet' , up: 10000000.0 , down: 10000000.0 }
, {name: 'T3' , up: 44736000.0 , down: 44736000.0 }
, {name: 'OC1' , up: 51800000.0 , down: 51800000.0 }
, {name: '100M Ethernet' , up: 100000000.0 , down: 100000000.0 }
, {name: 'OC3' , up: 155000000.0 , down: 155000000.0 }
, {name: 'T4' , up: 274760000.0 , down: 274760000.0 }
, {name: 'OC12' , up: 622000000.0 , down: 622000000.0 }
, {name: '1G Ethernet' , up: 1000000000.0 , down: 1000000000.0 }
, {name: 'OC48' , up: 2500000000.0 , down: 2500000000.0 }
, {name: 'OC192' , up: 9600000000.0 , down: 9600000000.0 }
, {name: '10G Ethernet' , up:10000000000.0 , down:10000000000.0 }
);