305 Mbps for me. Cringy how slow internet connetivity is in the UK.
I remember me and my brother getting excited when torrent speeds used to touch 200 kbps. Good days.
You can download an entire album in minutes, that's crazy fast!
Speed Test
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are decent alternatives for this. Fast.com is hosted by Netflix, making them an excellent speedtest to check for service throttling. Google has a speedtest as well (Google "speed test" and it'll show a button). The more of these tests start appearing, the better.
I've found Fast.com gamed sometimes when traveling in Asia/Europe, in the sense the ISP prioritizes Netflix traffic but normal traffic never gets within 20% of that Fast.com download speed or has much higher latency or something...? With Cloudflare I'm guessing it's a more balanced measure.
Huh, that's strange, I usually see the opposite when I'm out and about (particularly in Europe/South America). Popular services like Netflix are throttled but downloading huge blobs from my own servers is much faster.
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#83how to change server? default one is too close, I need to test oversea connection
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#85Uff. Apparently gives correct readings mostly in Chrome only. I have a 500/500M connection and on the same computer Chrome gives 465/364 and Firefox has 311/303M. EDIT: this was on Linux/intel. On Mac M1Pro it Chrome/FF/Safari all get pretty much the same numbers. Both computers have wired ethernet.
I've ran it multiple times in Chrome only and got vastly different results just there, from 200 to 600 down on a 500 connection. Must be heavily dependant on moment-to-moment network conditions I guess, to the point where it's nigh useless.
Yes, the bandwidth test is so short that I'm not surprised it gets inconsistent results. I'd wager the speedtest.net being longer was not decided for fun, but to get more consistent results.
edit: Now I realize that the later tiny-small-medium filesize downloads also add to your above-the-fold download performance, so the results of the initial warm-up test are discarded later.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've found Fast.com gamed sometimes when traveling in Asia/Europe, in the sense the ISP prioritizes Netflix traffic but normal traffic never gets within 20% of that Fast.com download speed or has much higher latency or something...? With Cloudflare I'm guessing it's a more balanced measure.
Huh, that's strange, I usually see the opposite when I'm out and about (particularly in Europe/South America). Popular services like Netflix are throttled but downloading huge blobs from my own servers is much faster.
Here in Europe it's all equally fast. I don't remember ever having a throttled service, that sounds like a page out of the dystopian scenarios produced in the era where net neutrality legislation was being proposed/promoted ten years ago or something. There were rumors back then that bittorrent was being throttled (and corresponding protocol obfuscation and port changing) but I never had that myself
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#87It's very cool, but I thing the initial download-speed test is very misleading. Consistently I get like 2/3 of my max, but then when I let it run to completion and it goes through the longer download tests it ramps up to my full speed and I get the full value.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh, that's strange, I usually see the opposite when I'm out and about (particularly in Europe/South America). Popular services like Netflix are throttled but downloading huge blobs from my own servers is much faster.
Here in Europe it's all equally fast. I don't remember ever having a throttled service, that sounds like a page out of the dystopian scenarios produced in the era where net neutrality legislation was being proposed/promoted ten years ago or something. There were rumors back then that bittorrent was being throttled (and corresponding protocol obfuscation and port changing) but I never had that myself
Fast.com was created specifically to pinpoint the throttling that was actively applied to Netflix in many occurrences back then. It seems to be mostly gone, especially since streaming video now accounts for >50% of web traffic you can't easily throttle it and hope no one notices.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've found Fast.com gamed sometimes when traveling in Asia/Europe, in the sense the ISP prioritizes Netflix traffic but normal traffic never gets within 20% of that Fast.com download speed or has much higher latency or something...? With Cloudflare I'm guessing it's a more balanced measure.
Huh, that's strange, I usually see the opposite when I'm out and about (particularly in Europe/South America). Popular services like Netflix are throttled but downloading huge blobs from my own servers is much faster.
Isn't this exactly what net neutrality laws are supposed to ban?
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are decent alternatives for this. Fast.com is hosted by Netflix, making them an excellent speedtest to check for service throttling. Google has a speedtest as well (Google "speed test" and it'll show a button). The more of these tests start appearing, the better.
I've found Fast.com gamed sometimes when traveling in Asia/Europe, in the sense the ISP prioritizes Netflix traffic but normal traffic never gets within 20% of that Fast.com download speed or has much higher latency or something...? With Cloudflare I'm guessing it's a more balanced measure.
Netflix and Google both have servers colocated within ISPs' networks so this is probably why. Also SEA is a routing cesspool, many providers don't do settlement free peering and actively throttle IX routes, which is probably why your Internet was so slow.