Speedtest.net vs. SAIX

[KikzAzz]

Why is there such a huge different in the results reported by the Speedtest.net results and the results via SAIX.net.

I have run the tests more than once concurrently during the last couple of days. Both tests are connecting to the Cape Town server. With the Speedtest.net test I have selected the Cape Town SAIX server which is probably used for the SAIX test as well.

In most cases, the results from SAIX is double of that from Speedtest.net. Still ridiculous for a 4Mb line!

Speedtest.net:
Ping - 20ms
Download Speed - 0.67Mbps
Upload Speed: 0.40Mbps

SAIX:
Ping - 36ms
Download - 1.26Mbps
Upload - 0.37Mbps

 

[Tim the Techxpert]

Hi There,
While I understand what you are saying can you elaborate a bit more on why it is important to you that Speedtest and SAIX should correlate more closely?

Regards

Tim

 

[ProAsm]

Mine are very similar on a 2 mbit line:

Speedtest.net:
Ping - 49ms
Download Speed - 1.81Mbps
Upload Speed: 0.43Mbps

SAIX:
Ping - 35ms
Download - 1.76Mbps
Upload - 0.41Mbps

Regarding the pings, I think the mybroadband test is wrong as nowhere in SA is my ping as bad as 49.
Would be interesting to know where the test server is that MyBroadband uses.