Broadband Speed Test Differences

[tgarrett100]

I complained to BuddyBroadband about the incredibly slow ASDL connection: 200 - 500 kbps download speed using the ThaiVisa.com speed test. They said the connection looked fine from their server monitor and referred me to www.speedtest.net - a San Francisco site.

Indeed the connection from their referenced site was 1900 kbps download speed. Tested within a couple of minutes at both sites with the serious difference noted.

Any idea why the speed test discrepancy?

Thank you

Terry Garrett

[TheDon]

Many are different, some are just way off, I find the one that was on here also way off

[george]

If you compare Speedtest.net Singapore test with Thaivisa Speedtest (located in Singapore), they should be similar as they are located on the same subnet.

[waterdog]

Clocked speeds by way of Thai Visa - results: download = 800+, upload = 300+ and yet several minutes are required to load single web pages? It's this way nearly every evening until around 2300 hrs. Paying True for 1000 and have yet to see it. Is it because bandwith from Thailand to the rest of the world sucks or are there other problems, or a combination of many things?

[george]

No problems at our end with servers etc. Servers are the best you get get, bandwidth is excellent at our location in Singapore.

We have a state-of-the-art monitoring system that pings our servers (and perform some other tests as well) and alerts us if something is wrong. We have an excellent uptime history:

http://media2.thaivisa.com/pingdom

We have a short downtime every weekend (normally Saturday or Sunday) when we take the system offline for a few minutes to optimize the forum database and do some server house keeping.

[monty]

I complained to BuddyBroadband about the incredibly slow ASDL connection: 200 - 500 kbps download speed using the ThaiVisa.com speed test. They said the connection looked fine from their server monitor and referred me to www.speedtest.net - a San Francisco site.

Indeed the connection from their referenced site was 1900 kbps download speed. Tested within a couple of minutes at both sites with the serious difference noted.

Any idea why the speed test discrepancy?

Thank you

Terry Garrett

www.speedtest.net - a San Francisco site.

speedtest.net is not San Fransisco based! The software will determine where you are and it will recommend a server within the country you are located.

So if you are in Thailand, and you click on the recomended server, you'll get tested from a local Thai based server (and will get close to line speed).

You can manually choose a different server though, when I test the Thaivisa server and then test the Singapore server through speedtest.net, the results are very similar!

[ade100]

speedtest.net often defaults to testing a ping to a server in your own country. You can manually select another server if you wish. So you may just be testing your bandwidth within Thailand. Thai ISPs assume their customers only want to go to sanook.com so international bandwidth is often painfully low.

[torrenova]

TOT is crap the last week. Whatever CAT are doing is screwing up all speeds in and out of LOS.