Up speed faster than down?

[Raithlin]

I've been watching my tcpIQ tests, and I noticed something wierd: Up is almost the same speed as down.

There are to my mind a few possibilities here, considering that I get single-thread downloads at up to 70KB/s and multi-threaded downloads at up to 100+KB/s.

1. iBurst is shooting themselves in the foot by blocking/throttling access to this site (highly unlikely)
2. The test is single thread based, and not a true reflection of attainable speeds
3. Something else I haven't thought of - perhaps you can help

I get amazing speeds while playing games, downloading, etc. but when it comes to broadband tests it just doesn't reflect. Why??

 

[Gatecrasher]

I get amazing speeds while playing games, downloading, etc. but when it comes to broadband tests it just doesn't reflect. Why??

I get similar results. It's mostly due to single threads versus multithreads. But also TCPIQ is one of the slowest speed tests out there, don't know why. Seen a few complaints from ADSL 4096k users who are only getting <500k on TCPIQ.

I got very good results from speedtest.net, like >850k on one test. I wonder whether they use simultaneous downloads for testing.

 

[Raithlin]

Perhaps rpm should be looking at other tests then. It's certainly in Telskum's favour for something like this to stay on the board.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Oh, so this is why Iburst get in at around 167kb on all the MyADSL speed tests.

It really doesnt make sense, I can also get good speeds on some internatioan speed test, and THOSE speeds are the true reflection of my speeds. Well, I guess it'll have to be, unless RPM decides to change it. Its probably just that TCPIQ is one of the only tests that can run automatically over a period of time, giving a good average score.