Speeds Confuses Me

[mr_jmdk]

Hi Guys,

I'm currently with Macrolan/Seacom, have been for almost a year now. I have a 100/25 line (Octotel) but I have NEVER reached close to 100Mbps.
Have been running speedtests for them on: Fast.com (They claim this is accurate) and now also on speedtest.net and speedtest.co.za
Attached are the results I'm getting, who is correct and what is my true speed. I'm concerned they are going to use the Bullsh1t baffles brains approach with me and I'm not going to stand, want to get my duck in a row.

Looking forward to the experts explaining to me..

Cheers J

 

[Sinbad]

Is your PC connected over wifi or by ethernet cable to your router?

 

[Rickster]

The 1st speedtest.co.za result seems to be bang on, just a few megs short of 100Mbs, perhaps you dont have a Gigabit network + devices but that is doubtful.

Go to thinkbroadband.com/download and click on a test file to download, if your browser is showing a DL speed of 10MB/s then its what you are paying for.

On the other hand the speedtest.net results are not good as they are half of what you paying.

 

[Rickster]

Is your PC connected over wifi or by ethernet cable to your router?

Screenshot shows wired connection.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Speeds seem fine to me, think you might not have gigabit router might be limited by the overheads.

 

[xodosman123]

I have 100 and on fast i get 95... does not seem right what you are getting.

 

[Zurg]

Speed is one hell of a drug xd

 

[Syphonx]

What router model do you have? You will probably find it is a cheapie they give for free which only has 100Mb ports.

 

[SiR_BP]

The 1st speedtest.co.za result seems to be bang on, just a few megs short of 100Mbs, perhaps you dont have a Gigabit network + devices but that is doubtful.

Go to thinkbroadband.com/download and click on a test file to download, if your browser is showing a DL speed of 10MB/s then its what you are paying for.

On the other hand the speedtest.net results are not good as they are half of what you paying.

I also need help understand speeds, especially downloads.. My fibre line was recently installed, 100/10 (Vuma/Vox) and was recently upgraded to 200/20.

Speed test running at full speeds, however, when downloading I get between 2-5Mbps on downloads. Tested downloading something from thinkbroadband.com/download and it runs at full speed was hitting 25Mbps downloading any file.

Any idea why my other downloads getting the lower speeds?

 

[powermzii]

It's dependent on a number of factors, the route the packets take, the congestion on those routes, the capacity of the server at the other end. For torrents the number of active seeds and the quality of the connections that are seeding

So no 2 downloads will be the same

 

[Moosedrool]

Yeah Sandra Bullock should still have dated Keanu Reeves in Speed 2.

 

[system32]

Try a tracert/traceroute to check the hops & route followed.
Use netstat -an to get the ip of the server.

 

[simons]

I also need help understand speeds, especially downloads.. My fibre line was recently installed, 100/10 (Vuma/Vox) and was recently upgraded to 200/20.

Speed test running at full speeds, however, when downloading I get between 2-5Mbps on downloads. Tested downloading something from thinkbroadband.com/download and it runs at full speed was hitting 25Mbps downloading any file.

Any idea why my other downloads getting the lower speeds?

Are your downloads bits per second or bytes?

Remember bits is througput and bytes is storage (I.e file size)

200Mega bits per second = 25 Megabytes per second