testmy.net speeds please.

Telkom 4 meg line
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Can't seem to copy forum code with the iPad, but here's the results anyway:

8.ta 3G

:::.. Download Test Results ..:::
Download Connection:: 1019 Kbps or 1 Mbps
Download Test Size:: 1 MB or 1024 kB or 1048576 bytes
Download Speed:: 127 kB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net version:12.2
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/db/NWzh3IJ
Test Time:: 2012-02-12 09:04:25 Local Time
1MB Download in 8.06 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~2 Hours - 18X faster than 56K
This test of exactly 1024 kB took 8.042 seconds to complete
Running at 253% of hosts average (Telkom SA Limited)
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3 [!]
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MWEB Guy said:
Have you tried another speed test and was there any active traffic when you did the speed test?
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I've done 5 with them. I'm not running ookla, it's clearly optimized on your network. So far it's just me, waiting for more mweb users to arrive. You logged call for me is noted, but I will be phoning in to speak to will due to your generic response which is not acceptable.
 
Pr⊕phet said:
I've done 5 with them. I'm not running ookla, it's clearly optimized on your network. So far it's just me, waiting for more mweb users to arrive. You logged call for me is noted, but I will be phoning in to speak to will due to your generic response which is not acceptable.
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My apologies if you feel i've provided you generic responses, please provide me comparative speed test results. Also the netstat results would be valuable, I will add the detail to your open query.
 
8Mbps line

4Mbps Mweb Uncapped 45Kbps


Webafrica Shaped 104Kbps


Webafrica Unshaped 1.5Mbps
 
I assume everyone is aware this is international speeds we are testing here....so getting that 3.5 MB/s with this is highly unlikely. Chances are the 1Mbps and 4/8/10 Mbps users will get similar speeds.

Anyhow, since the site is keeping a public history of all tests being run, isn't it more useful to look at it like this?

http://testmy.net/host-history/mweb_connect

Here's a few tests i did, Mweb 4MB uncapped/shaped :


http://testmy.net/HTaqw5M.png (849 kbps)
http://testmy.net/3tQR2aT.png (350 kbps)
http://testmy.net/share/zEJxjN1 (740 kbps)
http://testmy.net/xIO6ZrT.png (320kbps)
http://testmy.net/g31Ca4y.png (848 kbps)
http://testmy.net/UfR5YFg.png (1.2 MB/s)
http://testmy.net/TZINsUz.png (340 kbps)

As can been seen speeds is very inconsistent between tests, VERY inconsistent, which explain why the average is so low (for the ISP in total).

EDIT: The more tests i did, the more clear it is i can easily get above 1 MB/s one moment and right the next test get a measly 300 kbps . So i'd suggest you do quite a few tests before drawing any conclusions about "max speed" .

Some interesting stats going through the history per ISP as can be seen on testmy.net (obviously this is ignoring what the test subjects' actual line speeds are and what packages they are using at said ISP ).

Webafrica Average Download Speed: 1.2 Mbps (156 kB/s)
Internet Solutions Average Download Speed: 683 Kbps (85 kB/s)
Mweb Connect Average Download Speed: 413 Kbps (52 kB/s)
Telkom Sa Limited Average Download Speed: 475 Kbps (59 kB/s)
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Just looking at things like this, i sometimes wonder why we even pay for 4+ MB/s packages. Most likely you'll get most value for money on a 1MB/s type of package (if we're talking uncapped) .
 
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My results from this site just vary to much to be reliable.

I don't see any practical use for using speed tests from this site as my real world speeds are always 350KB/s+. I hardly ever download single-threaded, and if I do I mostly always get good speeds too (depending on the location of the server).

Those people that are getting poor results, download this file: http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Driver/mb_driver_intel_me_7series.exe (not using a d/l manager) and see what speeds you get, this is way more real world than the speed tests as I would actually be using something like a driver. I got an average speed of 388KB/s on the above file while using the testmy.net speed test, I got speeds ranging from 60KB/s to 250KB/s.

Here is my wget output that I ran from the command line for the above file:

Code: 
--2012-02-12 15:08:33--  http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Driver/mb_driver_intel_me_7series.exe
Resolving download.gigabyte.us... 210.80.76.165, 210.80.76.164
Connecting to download.gigabyte.us|210.80.76.165|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6503162 (6.2M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: “mb_driver_intel_me_7series.exe”

100%[========================================================================================================================>] 6,503,162    421K/s   in 16s     

2012-02-12 15:08:50 [B](388 KB/s)[/B] - “mb_driver_intel_me_7series.exe” saved [6503162/6503162]

And a traceroute to the server:

Code: 
traceroute to 210.80.76.165 (210.80.76.165), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  0.340 ms  0.694 ms  0.687 ms
 2  wtvw-ip-bb-1.ipnet.wa.co.za (41.185.97.1)  9.469 ms  11.867 ms  14.554 ms
 3  wnls-ipc1-vl-108.wa.co.za (196.220.59.238)  19.586 ms  23.392 ms  25.832 ms
 4  wnls-cr1-vl-801.wa.co.za (41.185.0.67)  27.303 ms  29.250 ms  31.976 ms
 5  wnls-cr2-vl-10.wa.co.za (41.185.0.41)  34.420 ms  36.869 ms  39.314 ms
 6  41.185.1.49 (41.185.1.49)  42.737 ms  35.192 ms  12.450 ms
 7  41-66-150-177-b1.USED.africainx.net (41.66.150.177)  62.462 ms  16.826 ms  19.755 ms
 8  41-84-12-87-57.available.africainx.net (41.84.12.87)  199.848 ms  200.372 ms  199.958 ms
 9  195.50.122.217 (195.50.122.217)  206.765 ms  207.202 ms  207.595 ms
10  ae-52-52.csw2.London1.Level3.net (4.69.139.120)  192.161 ms  238.737 ms  192.243 ms
11  ae-59-224.ebr2.London1.Level3.net (4.69.153.141)  221.699 ms ae-57-222.ebr2.London1.Level3.net (4.69.153.133)  219.739 ms  220.136 ms
12  ae-42-42.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.137.70)  283.311 ms ae-44-44.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.137.78)  281.273 ms  277.944 ms
13  ae-4-4.ebr1.NewYork2.Level3.net (4.69.141.18)  251.947 ms  280.531 ms  280.870 ms
14  ae-1-51.edge2.NewYork2.Level3.net (4.69.138.195)  276.042 ms  254.380 ms  263.235 ms
15  204.255.173.53 (204.255.173.53)  235.440 ms Verizon-level3-2x10g.NewYork.Level3.net (4.68.62.42)  312.224 ms 4.68.111.138 (4.68.111.138)  277.314 ms
16  0.ae1.XL4.NYC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.18.233)  240.413 ms 0.ae2.XT1.NYC4.ALTER.NET (152.63.3.109)  259.915 ms 0.ae1.XL4.NYC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.18.233)  294.857 ms
17  0.so-3-0-0.IL1.SAC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.48.37)  341.379 ms 0.so-3-0-0.IL2.SAC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.48.45)  347.814 ms  348.207 ms
18  0.so-2-0-0.IR2.SAC2.ALTER.NET (152.63.48.42)  333.741 ms 0.so-2-0-0.IR1.SAC2.ALTER.NET (152.63.48.34)  331.207 ms  352.017 ms
19  0.so-2-0-0.XT4.TPE1.ALTER.NET (210.80.51.10)  450.035 ms 0.so-2-0-0.XT3.TPE1.Alter.Net (210.80.49.234)  458.436 ms 0.so-2-0-0.XT4.TPE1.ALTER.NET (210.80.51.10)  474.373 ms
20  0.so-3-0-0.GW5.TPE1.ALTER.NET (210.80.2.10)  454.867 ms  454.394 ms 0.so-6-0-0.GW5.TPE1.ALTER.NET (210.80.2.18)  494.306 ms
21  210.80.76.165 (210.80.76.165)  498.222 ms !X  442.296 ms !X  444.679 ms !X

I don't need anymore speedtests.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
My results from this site just vary to much to be reliable. I don't see any practical use for using speed tests from this site as my real world speeds are always 350KB/s+. I hardly ever download single-threaded, and if I do I mostly always get good speeds too (depending on the location of the server).

Those people that are getting poor results, download this file: http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Driver/mb_driver_intel_me_7series.exe (not using a d/l manager) and see what speeds you get, this is way more real world than the speed tests as I would actually be using something like a driver. I got an average speed of 388KB/s on the above file while using the testmy.net speed test, I got speeds ranging from 60KB/s to 250KB/s.

I don't need anymore speedtests.
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You miss understood why one would need a good single thread speed.

Obviously no one *just* download using a single thread, however when getting piss poor speeds from a FTP/HTTP when using a single thread there is obviously a problem.

There's even more of a problem when clearly it is not a FileSharing host, but quickly being told so. I've ran about 5 tests getting 30KB on all of them from testmy, but when doing ookla magically it's above 1Mbs. When repeating the test using microsoft's ftp, globescape ftp, direct Mirc.exe download link and debian iso links on http or ftp yet again I got same measly 30-40KB, but again was quick to be told FS has ****ty speeds.

Then on exact same pc, router, line, copper and exchange when repeating the tests with WebAfrica all tests pass. Now what else but conclusion can I draw that mweb has ookla optimised as well as was ****ed?

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http://testmy.net/compID/3772081702878

Where is the massive erratic speed differences you speak of? Please link your test data.
 
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Big Bean said:
their results seem a bit dodgy, 48KB/s DL for 384 : ?
http://testmy.net/gUc0jeK.png
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Shouldn't that be the correct speeds with overhead on a 384? I'd hardly think that you get above 50KB...


jsheed_sa said:
You have bits and bytes mixed up, your line speed / 8 is what you will theoretically be able to get in terms of max download speed in KILOBYTES - Kb/s , Kbps is Kilobits and thats 8 Kilobits in a Kilobyte.

So a 384kbps / 8 = 49 kB/s , 512kbps / 8 = 64 kB/s , 4096kbps / 8 = 512 kB/s

Use the same standard of measurement, otherwise you're just comparing oranges to watermelons.

J
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Pr⊕phet said:
Where is the massive erratic speed differences you speak of? Please link your test data.
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Here's mine (can easily see how it's up and down) :

http://testmy.net/compID/3772277093


Amusingly looks like Mweb's average went up like crazy in the last day, someone's been running some serious 2.5MB/s speed tests on the site .... what exactly does the USA mirror flag means? Can you jippo this test with a VPN service? (because my suspicion meter is going off looking at those, 2.8 MB/s international speeds in the middle of a working day )

I'm now referring to the test history seen here : http://testmy.net/host-history/mweb_connect . Just look at the graph to see a mysterious speed bump .
 
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