Test your bandwidth

**Feelingpink** · 25th-August-2006, 10:23 PM

How very cool.

http://www.speedtest.net/

Here's my result.

Now if only I understood it ....

Is this good, bad or indifferent?

Warwick · 26th-August-2006, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Feelingpink

How very cool.

http://www.speedtest.net/

I'm cheating though. That isn't the home bandwidth.

**ducasi** · 26th-August-2006, 09:08 AM

I'm getting 3812 kb/s download, 365 kb/s upload, with a ping time of 76 ms. Oh, and I'm about 350 miles away...

Pretty much what I would expect – my cable modem is capped to 4Mb/s download and 400kb/s upload.

**Rhythm King** · 26th-August-2006, 02:50 PM

Well this is mine, but I'm supposed to be getting 8 meg any day now.[IMG]

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**Missy D** · 27th-August-2006, 09:44 AM

So is this good or bad?

**Feelingpink** · 27th-August-2006, 09:58 AM

And this is this morning's results

**ducasi** · 27th-August-2006, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Missy D

So is this good or bad?

Those numbers are surprisingly low for broadband, or surprisingly high for dial-up.

**Missy D** · 27th-August-2006, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ducasi

Those numbers are surprisingly low for broadband, or surprisingly high for dial-up.

Not sure what I am on as I have logged into my neighbours 2 doors along as my 'wifi' is not working. Dont feel I can ask them really

dee · 27th-August-2006, 08:32 PM

This is mine

TheTramp · 31st-August-2006, 02:37 AM

This is the one I'm using in Sydney. Wonder what mine at home is like....

(Where are you Meegan!)

**Franck** · 31st-August-2006, 09:29 AM

Pretty good, but probably slower than the 10mb I'm supposed to get

**Yliander** · 31st-August-2006, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by TheTramp

This is the one I'm using in Sydney. Wonder what mine at home is like....

(Where are you Meegan!)

At the time of your posting - asleep - at time of reading your post at work

results from work are

will check the house later

Andreas · 5th-September-2006, 08:24 PM

Not exactly the 8Mbit that I am supposed to have but the uplink is still pretty good.

**DavidY** · 5th-September-2006, 11:32 PM

So if it's my bandwidth that's being tested, why do I get consistently different answers from the server in Amsterdam, say, compared to the one in London? If it was just a test of my connection, surely I'd get the same answer from all of them?

**Will** · 6th-September-2006, 12:34 AM

I'm on an 8MB Bulldog link. Seems to compare favourably with other home users, but again not as much the 8MB I should be getting.

**ducasi** · 6th-September-2006, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidY

So if it's my bandwidth that's being tested, why do I get consistently different answers from the server in Amsterdam, say, compared to the one in London? If it was just a test of my connection, surely I'd get the same answer from all of them?

Because it's a test of the bandwidth between you and the server. The further away it is, the more likely there will be network congestion. Or the server might just be heavily loaded. I found I was getting really poor results from the Liverpool server, despite it being (theoretically) closer to me.

Andreas · 6th-September-2006, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidY

So if it's my bandwidth that's being tested, why do I get consistently different answers from the server in Amsterdam, say, compared to the one in London? If it was just a test of my connection, surely I'd get the same answer from all of them?

I have done three tests last night, London, Amsterdam and New York. New York came out at pretty much the same value as London, which implies that Plus.net have a fast backbone to North America. And since Amsterdam could only match the uplink speed but reached merely 50% downlink speed, I assume that they have a thin pipe to the continent.

**Beowulf** · 29th-October-2006, 01:12 PM

as I've FINALLY been regraded.

I think I'm probably just a "little" to far away from the exchange with really old dodgy phone lines between me and there to get the full 8 meg broadband. Still I would have expected better than that

**El Salsero Gringo** · 29th-October-2006, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidY

So if it's my bandwidth that's being tested, why do I get consistently different answers from the server in Amsterdam, say, compared to the one in London? If it was just a test of my connection, surely I'd get the same answer from all of them?

The concept of "your bandwidth" is fairly devoid of meaning until you say your "bandwidth with somewhere". You might be able to ship data at 8MBit/s between you and your phone/ADSL exchange but there's no meaningful data there for you to access at that speed (nor is there an easy way to measure it). So the test measures the speed you can ship data to/from servers in different locations. For nearby servers it's likely that your ADSL line proves to be the most significant bottleneck - but that's clearly not true for servers much farther away.

TheTramp · 29th-October-2006, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by TheTramp

This is the one I'm using in Sydney. Wonder what mine at home is like....

(Where are you Meegan!)

And at home....

25th-August-2006, 10:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
Feelingpink Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Greenwich, UK Posts: 1,577 Status: Just been at the top of the Gherkin Rep Power: 4 Rep.: 1308	Test your bandwidth How very cool. http://www.speedtest.net/ Here's my result. Now if only I understood it .... Is this good, bad or indifferent? __________________ Better too much than not enough - Luis Rodriguez

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ducasi Lovely Moderator Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Glasgow Posts: 9,640 Status: back down with a thump. Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 6 Rep.: 3277	Re: Test your bandwidth I'm getting 3812 kb/s download, 365 kb/s upload, with a ping time of 76 ms. Oh, and I'm about 350 miles away... Pretty much what I would expect – my cable modem is capped to 4Mb/s download and 400kb/s upload. __________________ Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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Rhythm King Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: In London, by the River Thames Posts: 2,985 Status: No Status Rep Power: 4 Rep.: 1274	Re: Test your bandwidth Well this is mine, but I'm supposed to be getting 8 meg any day now.[IMG][/IMG] __________________ The hottest thing since Morton Thiokol used the Challenger to take teacher hazing into the Space Age...

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Feelingpink Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Greenwich, UK Posts: 1,577 Status: Just been at the top of the Gherkin Rep Power: 4 Rep.: 1308	Re: Test your bandwidth And this is this morning's results __________________ Better too much than not enough - Luis Rodriguez

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TheTramp The Forum Legend Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Dundee, Scotland Posts: 10,496 Status: No Status Rep Power: 6 Rep.: 1710	Re: Test your bandwidth This is the one I'm using in Sydney. Wonder what mine at home is like.... (Where are you Meegan!)

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Franck Omnipresent Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Scotland Posts: 2,783 Status: getting ready for Edinburgh tonight! Blog Entries: 2 Rep Power: 10 Rep.: 1552	Re: Test your bandwidth Pretty good, but probably slower than the 10mb I'm supposed to get __________________ Franck. Pourquoi tant de haine? Parce que si peu d'amour...

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Andreas Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: London Posts: 1,225 Status: No Status Rep Power: 3 Rep.: 500	Re: Test your bandwidth Not exactly the 8Mbit that I am supposed to have but the uplink is still pretty good.

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DavidY Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Midlands Posts: 2,162 Status: No Status Rep Power: 3 Rep.: 715	Re: Test your bandwidth So if it's my bandwidth that's being tested, why do I get consistently different answers from the server in Amsterdam, say, compared to the one in London? If it was just a test of my connection, surely I'd get the same answer from all of them? __________________ Love dance, will travel

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Will Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: London Posts: 1,422 Status: No Status Rep Power: 4 Rep.: 557	Re: Test your bandwidth I'm on an 8MB Bulldog link. Seems to compare favourably with other home users, but again not as much the 8MB I should be getting.

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Beowulf Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: London Posts: 7,176 Status: No Status Rep Power: 5 Rep.: 1805	Re: Test your bandwidth as I've FINALLY been regraded. I think I'm probably just a "little" to far away from the exchange with really old dodgy phone lines between me and there to get the full 8 meg broadband. Still I would have expected better than that __________________ "Makes a soft mint look hard" - Twirly

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