Eeyore

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Eeyore wrote:
> >
> > Doug Spinney wrote:
> >
> >> But there is quite a few more out there, such as:
> >>
> >> http://speedcheck.ispconnect.co.uk/
> >
> > That's fucking ridiculous but what els would you expect from Tiscali ?
> >
> > " Your current bandwidth reading is: 1.14 Mbps
> > which means you can download at 145.8 KB/sec. from our servers "
> >
> > And the bbmax test just returned a figure of nearly 7000 kbps !
>
> So BBmax is lying?

No, it's correct.

Are you being deliberately dense ?

Graham

Kris

Eeyore writes:
> > 24 megabit connection. 2 megabytes per second down, 270 kilobytes per
> > second up. Synced at 23098 kbps down / 2468 kbps up.
>
> I'm puzzled by the seemingly slow up speed.
>
> > The one you linked to doesn't go as fast as the thinkbroadband tester.
>
> I haven't had the pleasure of finding that out. It certainly registers a 'score' of
> greater than 7000 kbps for my connection at times.

I've always judged connections by the steady 60KB/sec I got when I used
to have a 512Kb connection with Claranet many years ago. Going by that
speed I just multiply the megabits by 120 to see how fast in kilobytes
per second things should be transferring at. However, it seems kindof
flawed - maybe it doesn't take into account the greater TCP/IP wastage,
since for my 23098 sync the formula says that I should be getting 2.64
megabytes per second download speed, but the ThinkBroadband speed test
only reaches 2.4MB/sec. Eeeeeh, it's roughly right.

As for uploading, the rough formula of kbits*117/1000 gives a 288KB/sec
speed, so my real-world 270KB/sec is roughly okay.

The Excel spreadsheet I use for this kind of thing is here:
http://a.nfshost.com/kilobytes_kilob...calculator.xls

Note that I was never very good at maths so someone please correct me if
I'm completely wrong or there is a better formula that takes into
account the relative increase in overhead the faster you go.

Abo

Daniel.Mason@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a good broadband speed checker - i think some of them
> on the web are a little biast - or at least seem to be.

http://www.dslzoneuk.net/

--
Abo

The Natural Philosopher

Eeyore wrote:
>
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> Eeyore wrote:
>>> Doug Spinney wrote:
>>>
>>>> But there is quite a few more out there, such as:
>>>>
>>>> http://speedcheck.ispconnect.co.uk/
>>> That's fucking ridiculous but what els would you expect from Tiscali ?
>>>
>>> " Your current bandwidth reading is: 1.14 Mbps
>>> which means you can download at 145.8 KB/sec. from our servers "
>>>
>>> And the bbmax test just returned a figure of nearly 7000 kbps !
>> So BBmax is lying?
>
> No, it's correct.
>

So, you are connected at 1.14Mbps, and can download max at 145kbytes/s..
> Are you being deliberately dense ?

And you are getting a speed test that says you are getting 7Mbps?



>
> Graham
>

Eeyore

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Eeyore wrote:
> >
> > Doug Spinney wrote:
> >
> >> But there is quite a few more out there, such as:
> >>
> >> http://speedcheck.ispconnect.co.uk/
> >
> > That's fucking ridiculous but what els would you expect from Tiscali ?
> >
> > " Your current bandwidth reading is: 1.14 Mbps
> > which means you can download at 145.8 KB/sec. from our servers "
> >
> > And the bbmax test just returned a figure of nearly 7000 kbps !
>
> So BBmax is lying?

No, it's correct.

Are you being deliberately dense ?

Graham

Abo

Daniel.Mason@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a good broadband speed checker - i think some of them
> on the web are a little biast - or at least seem to be.

http://www.dslzoneuk.net/

--
Abo

ato_zee@hotmail.com

On 29-Nov-2007, "Daniel.Mason@gmail.com" <Daniel.Mason@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm looking for a good broadband speed checker - i think some of them
> on the web are a little biast - or at least seem to be.

The problem is what do you want to check?
Your connection cannot be faster than the slowest link in the chain.
If your ISP has a speed checker, then at off peak times,
you should see roughly your down BRAS speed.
If your ISP doesn't give you access to your profile
it may be because they don't want you to know.
If you have a shiddy ISP with insufficient backhaul bandwidth
then speed checkers, other than your ISP's will give poor
speeds.
Worst case if you use one of the Stateside speed checkers at
peak times, say around 8-10pm in the UK then your speed will
probably be appalling.
All this is before you take into account traffic shaping. If there
is traffic shaping then P2P may be very slow, slow because of
your ISP's traffic shaping, and maybe only one or two seeds
with slow upload speeds.

The Natural Philosopher

Eeyore wrote:
>
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> Eeyore wrote:
>>> Doug Spinney wrote:
>>>
>>>> But there is quite a few more out there, such as:
>>>>
>>>> http://speedcheck.ispconnect.co.uk/
>>> That's fucking ridiculous but what els would you expect from Tiscali ?
>>>
>>> " Your current bandwidth reading is: 1.14 Mbps
>>> which means you can download at 145.8 KB/sec. from our servers "
>>>
>>> And the bbmax test just returned a figure of nearly 7000 kbps !
>> So BBmax is lying?
>
> No, it's correct.
>

So, you are connected at 1.14Mbps, and can download max at 145kbytes/s..
> Are you being deliberately dense ?

And you are getting a speed test that says you are getting 7Mbps?



>
> Graham
>

Eeyore

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Eeyore wrote:
> >
> > Doug Spinney wrote:
> >
> >> But there is quite a few more out there, such as:
> >>
> >> http://speedcheck.ispconnect.co.uk/
> >
> > That's fucking ridiculous but what els would you expect from Tiscali ?
> >
> > " Your current bandwidth reading is: 1.14 Mbps
> > which means you can download at 145.8 KB/sec. from our servers "
> >
> > And the bbmax test just returned a figure of nearly 7000 kbps !
>
> So BBmax is lying?

No, it's correct.

Are you being deliberately dense ?

Graham

Eeyore

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Eeyore wrote:
> > The Natural Philosopher wrote
> >> Eeyore wrote:
> >>> Doug Spinney wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> But there is quite a few more out there, such as:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://speedcheck.ispconnect.co.uk/
> >>> That's fucking ridiculous but what els would you expect from Tiscali ?
> >>>
> >>> " Your current bandwidth reading is: 1.14 Mbps
> >>> which means you can download at 145.8 KB/sec. from our servers "
> >>>
> >>> And the bbmax test just returned a figure of nearly 7000 kbps !
> >> So BBmax is lying?
> >
> > No, it's correct.
>
>
> So, you are connected at 1.14Mbps,

No I'm NOT. I'm synched at 8128 kbps with a 7150 kbps profile.

1.14 Mbps is what the fucking USELESS Tiscali tests says !

Do WAKE UP.

Graham