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| 1324366 | 2013-01-22 23:06:00 | Speedtest has always been pretty acurate for me... I also have had a lot of people report to me that speedtest is selecting far away locations for its test servers for some people. Ive had these reports the last few weeks, people in auckland getting speedtested automatically on wellington servers. Is anyone else having that trouble? My understanding is the applet pings the servers, and uses the one with the best latency. One person had complained to me because he thinks we are routing his traffic to wellington first before anywhere else and thats why speedtest.net was testing fastest on wellington. |
Matrix64 (10604) | ||
| 1324367 | 2013-01-22 23:23:00 | Wouldn't trust speed test as far I could throw it, it not consistent. heres some results. Default location Down:12.34 www.speedtest.net Change server to Napier:21.82 www.speedtest.net Change server to Auckland : 34.47 www.speedtest.net Lets go south to ChCh 63.26 www.speedtest.net Now try it on Telstra Speed test and Telecom speed test close enough to identical 83.78 4693 The Max I can get is 100 |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1324368 | 2013-01-22 23:32:00 | www.speedtest.net | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1324369 | 2013-01-23 00:21:00 | No I would suggest those are indicative of real-world conditions there wainuitech. You may max out at 100, but that's only you back to your ISP. From there, whatever peering arrangements they subsequently have with other ISP's or peering exchanges is completely up to them. Download WinMTR for me and run traceroutes for say 60 seconds to the following: nzherald.co.nz 2talk.co.nz ts.vgn.co.nz maxnet.co.nz I'd be curious to see what you get! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1324370 | 2013-01-23 01:16:00 | No I would suggest those are indicative of real-world conditions there wainuitech. You may max out at 100, but that's only you back to your ISP. From there, whatever peering arrangements they subsequently have with other ISP's or peering exchanges is completely up to them. yeah, I was going to point that out.....anyway real world is the performance you get when accessing the net or downloading or whatever. Tests are OK, but how long it takes to download or lag on video is the real importance. Mines OK, so I'm not complaining. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1324371 | 2013-01-23 01:33:00 | www.speedtest.net mine is so sloooooooooooooooooooooow im supposed to get at least 10 |
jonovw (16835) | ||
| 1324372 | 2013-01-23 02:12:00 | Supposed to according to what, jonovw? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1324373 | 2013-01-23 02:40:00 | No I would suggest those are indicative of real-world conditions there wainuitech. You may max out at 100, but that's only you back to your ISP. From there, whatever peering arrangements they subsequently have with other ISP's or peering exchanges is completely up to them. Download WinMTR for me and run traceroutes for say 60 seconds to the following: nzherald.co.nz 2talk.co.nz ts.vgn.co.nz maxnet.co.nz I'd be curious to see what you get! The whole idea of a speed test is to test the line speeds for bottle necks etc. if you run any speed test from who ever at different times of day then of course they will be slower during the end of business days,and generally school holidays. I found out for some reason Telstra was throttling me back a while back, when they looked there was no reason, so the guy set it to go to what I Was meant to have. Funny thing is with Speedtest it didn't make any difference, but Telstras own it was a vast improvement. Yes it may have been direct, but that's the point whats the connection capable of, not the fact the half the country is suddenly downloading the latest movie or some thing and that's causing slowness. If that's anyone elses point of speedtest, that's easy to fudge, just do them when most people are asleep and theres less WAN Traffic - but that's false results. Re those test/results you asked about -- What figures do you actually want ???? - Looking at the packets sent/lost its perfect 100 % sent/Received. Ping speeds are all up and down depending on which address is entered ?? Ping times Via Telstra Verse actual download speed don't seem to make a much difference. Just ran 3 tests, fastest ping was 14ms - resulting in 84.15 Slowest was 28ms - 83.75 |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1324374 | 2013-01-23 03:29:00 | It'll show the routing, how you're getting to X or Y. It won't show where the speed is being "reduced" but it'll give you an idea if there's some stupid routing like perhaps going to Aus and back again (Does happen). So yes, the speed test will test the line speeds. Right now your connection and throughput to your ISP seems good, and it seems that they're peering with the likes of Telstra / Telecom quickly, but the others are quite possibly going through some other route where they don't have sufficient bandwidth. So what you've proven so far with your speed tests is your connection to your ISP is good, but from there, they really leave something to be desired... What are your speeds like internationally? Say to Sydney? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1324375 | 2013-01-23 03:57:00 | Using Speedtest.net, bit up and down to Aust, but close to the same as NZ locations. Using http://www.ozspeedtest.com/ its around 55.?? to 59.?? |
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