Re: Testing upload/download bandwidth speeds for verification

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Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
> I have been testing my residential ISP/DSL-Landline
> connections and wanted to make sure that I was getting
> what I am paying for. Supposedly, one can use the various
> website based "speed test" tools to determine their upload
> and download speeds.
>
> Are these "speed test" tools credible and can they
> be trusted?
>
> Of the several sites I have tried, they all more or less
> seemed to be in close agreement with one another in
> terms of the bandwidth speeds, i.e. my connection
> speed is quoted at 768KB/s up and 3MB/s down,
> and the farther away from central, the more reduced
> is the speeds are.
>
> The average speed tools says that I have measured
> speeds of 720-30 KB/s up and 2.0-5MB/s down.
>
> Why is it however, that when downloading software
> from the various Linux/M$ and other downloads sites
> I am seeing on average, speeds of 200-320(max) KB/s
> and never see anything much faster than that?
>
> Is this normal?
Yes, very normal....

First, the download speed get from any site can only be as high as their
upload speed.

Second, run the web based speed checks from 2 or 3 different sites 
simultaneously and/or the same site multiple times simultaneously and
see what the results are then. 

Those two things should shed some light as to why it is normal.

Oh, and third, the software download sites probably also have rate
limits on each upload (from their point of view) so that everyone gets
the same level of service.

All of these reasons are the driving force behind the development of
bittorrent...
>
> Has anyone gotten download speeds any faster that
> what I have reported?
>
> What I am trying to determine is if my ISP only shows
> un-throttled speeds between me & them, but then somehow
> throttles my bandwidth usage when I am using the Internet,
> or is it more probable that download speeds are being throttled
> from the download site itself?
>
> Other than by using `speed testers', I have yet to find a download
> site that pushes out more than 2-300KB/s?
>
> I have tried HTTP, FTP & Bittorent and there is very little or no
> speed improvements as far as I can tell.
>
> Just wondering,
> Dan
>


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