speed test today oh my ***

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craigsa

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:mad: :mad: 2005-05-16 07:07:38 EST: 20 / 99
Your download speed : 21295 bps, or 20 kbps.
A 2.5 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed is much faster than down.. have you tweaked?
Your upload speed : 102004 bps, or 99 kbps.
 
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I'm in Pretoria North and I get about the same. Wondering what de ****** is going on. Oh yeah, I have 5 modem lights, so signal strength is ok.
 
Which test is that, craigsa?

Latency is a big problem with International speed tests - they are designed for users with low latency <100ms. Typically a full packet to/from SA is around 500ms-800ms, and so quite often packets are resent if the acks are delayed byond the test's timeout limit. With a very high RWIN setting you can get much better "test speeds" simply because the number of acks are greatly reduced.

But I'm a bit skeptical as to what these tests actually measure. Often I can barely get above 200kbs on an international speed test, but if I d/l a file from an international site, it'll whizz in via my download manager at >1000kpbs.

You'll read anywhere, on these test sites and other places that the "best" speed test is the one that is located closest to you. The further your packets travel the more it says about network congestion, routing, and factors beyond your control. The shorter your packats travel, the more it will tell you about the quality of your connection.

For that reason, the Telkom test is the most reliable and meaningful if you are concerned about your signal strength/connection.
 
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slimothy said:
plus alot of these international test are single thread only
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Are there any multi-threaded tests? I haven't found any. But I'm sure it could easily be done, the site just needs to transmit several files simultaneously, rather than just the one.
 
there are multithread tests but they only do like 2 threads, I think speed tests done over HTTP are better because then if you use multithread in your browser it will be used on the speed test, it gives a more realistic spec of what the user can expect but doesn't show them what thier connection is capable of.

Interestingly enough when WBS played with shaping last week they managed to get international single threaded downloads going pretty good, even 120KB/s, it still seems to stand true up till now however I find you need to build up to that speed, over about 5MB or so.
 
I am not using any speed tests but I can tell you that p2p is dead (as expected) because it's Monday. Everything else is quite fast. Will resume downloading next month as I have to keep some bandwidth left over so my gf can study.
 
Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

* Download time: 2.766 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 1475.1 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 180.8 (kiloBytes/second)
 
holy crap thats super fast!

alot faster than my uncapped iburst... oh wait, you HAVE uncapped iburst. amazing
 
With those peaks come the lows, that wireless.. wish it was stable at that...
 
noone said:
holy crap thats super fast!

alot faster than my uncapped iburst... oh wait, you HAVE uncapped iburst. amazing
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wtf?

well Slim said he had seen it I still won't believe it.

Do you get 180kbits download speed peaks eva (when downloading compressed files)

It actually makes me think that if that is telkom measuring 1024kbits then we should all get that on telkom
 
yup, if you're in a good area it peaks over 1mbit sometimes, not for long period, ussually stabalises at 120 - 132KB/s

if your speeds are nothing liek that then I don't blame you for p1ssing on your modem
 
Seburn, when multithreading it occasionally goes up to 180K but not for very long... Like Slim says sits at 130 - 120 mostly if you get good signal..
 
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