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I used Sentech's speed test at http://www.sentech.co.za/speedtest/display_speed.php and got the reading: "Your download speed is: 761.02 KBps, or 6088.19 Kbps
The test took 0.703 seconds to complete"

I the tested my speed at http://www.telkom.co.za/minisites/dsl/speed1.html and got the result:"Your line speed is approximately 42.6 Kbps or 5.2 kBytes/sec".

Can anyone please explain the huge difference in speeds tested? Today the speeds are so slow, I definately agree with Telkom's speed meter rather than that of Sentech.

Can anyone suggest a trustworthy way to measure true speeds?
 
The Sentech speed test server is just a router hop or two away from your host, while the Telkom speed test server is multiple hops away, across peering links etc.

You will always get a faster speed test using the closest available server.

According to me the difference in speeds are due to insufficient peering link bandwidth.
 
Sentech has been having alot of latency issues over the past few days/weeks, so your throughput would be a bit slow.

But yeah like Luke7777 said, that is definitley a cached test.
The best wat to really get a good DL speed is by getting a accelarator (Mass Downloader, Download Accelarator,etc.)

Try also opening up more than one thread, by downloading more items at a time - Sentech Single thread Connection (I think lol)
 
Thanks for the help.

Franna is right. When the speedtest file is in my cache, the speeds are in MBps! (Wouldn't it be wonderful if one day.......)

I think though that the telkom one must be quite true. What spedd are you experiencing today?
 
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