Telkom's lying with their speed test!

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nGAGEd55

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Just did a speed test on Telkom's site and it gave me this result:
Your line speed is approximately 534 Kbps or 65.4 kBytes/sec
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well, I was quite surprised, since the max i've ever gotten on that test is about 56KB/s.

Then I saw this in my browser (Opera 9): http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2344/telkomspeedtestck9.jpg
notice the difference in the loading times?

I then immediately did all the other local speed tests that are listed on this site, and here's their results:

Gamco: http://img423.imageshack.us/img423/9316/4451ca7.jpg
Sentech: http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/6426/sentechrn7.jpg
iBurst: http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/4071/iburstyf5.jpg

And I even did the telkom speed test in another browser just to be sure: http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/619/telkomfirefoxwq2.jpg

And ATM normal http downloads run at a solid 51KB/s.

So my line is definitely not performing as well as Telkom's speed test claims.

I think Telkom must have done something deliberately to make it look faster, and the fact that it's so close to 512kbps or 64KB/s every time, is just too coincidental to me. :cool:
 
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Have you tried the ftp test instead of their http one?
 
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Insane speed test

I dunno WTF is going on but on all the local speed tests I am getting WEIRD figures.

I did telkom's one now - A FEW TIMES, and I'm getting speeds of between 6mbps and 200mbps - SERIOUS!

The FTP test shows normal - I'm on a 4mbps line so the speeds i'm getting there are acceptable but the http tests are insane.

this is my last one - just did it now: Your line speed is approximately 7831.1 Kbps or 959.7 kBytes/sec

This is frome gameco:
Your current bandwidth reading is:

102.40 Mbps
which means you can download at 12.8 MB/sec. from our servers.

WTF?!?! I WISH!
 
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wait wait - i want to be the one to say it - your browser is caching it - press ctrl+f5 and you will see normal figures
 
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And let me be second to say: If you read the other threads in the forum you would see that i showed that telkoms speed page is incorrectly configured thus showing around a 7kb/s increase in speeds...
 
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dotcat said:
wait wait - i want to be the one to say it - your browser is caching it - press ctrl+f5 and you will see normal figures
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That's definitely the case with PsyLenT, but in my case it's ONLY the telkom speed test that's giving incorrect results, and I am 100% sure it's not loading it from the cache, if it was it would anyways be a hell of a lot faster.
ziglet said:
And let me be second to say: If you read the other threads in the forum you would see that i showed that telkoms speed page is incorrectly configured thus showing around a 7kb/s increase in speeds...
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Sorry, didnt see those threads, and telkom's speed test only started giving these types of results yesterday, a week before I did the same test and it was more accurate.

I wouldn't be surprised if this 'incorrect configuration' isn't on purpose, to give results closer to the line speeds they advertise. :cool:
 
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nGAGEd55 said:
That's definitely the case with PsyLenT, but in my case it's ONLY the telkom speed test that's giving incorrect results, and I am 100% sure it's not loading it from the cache, if it was it would anyways be a hell of a lot faster.

Sorry, didnt see those threads, and telkom's speed test only started giving these types of results yesterday, a week before I did the same test and it was more accurate.

I wouldn't be surprised if this 'incorrect configuration' isn't on purpose, to give results closer to the line speeds they advertise. :cool:
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proxy server your side? at your isp?
 
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PsyLenT

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okay I was a little bit of a n00b :/

BUT, I realized this around 6am and started testing using ctrl+F5 and though I wasn't getting tremendous speeds I was still getting results of 7mbps.

I could still have been acting up n00bness tho so don't jump for joy
 
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Ja, it does seem too fast,or maby its just run on the best most unshaped etc conection that Telkom have.

but I doubt it... the other night two guys on Iburst were exchanging their around 1.5mb/s Telkom speed test figures. One guy got 2mb/s once. this was late night and they have amazing Iburst connection which are almost always at 1mb, but not really 1.5 or 2.
 
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Your line speed is approximately 317.3 Kbps or 38.9 kBytes/sec

^^^--- Odd, mine is accurate...

No.. Wait... It's higher than the gamco one.

GamCo:

Your current bandwidth reading is:
293.10kbps

which means you can download at 36.64 KB/sec. from our servers.

Eish, why the slowness ?
 
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