Broadband Speedtest

[thairet]

Hi,

Would someone please explain why:

"True" tells me I have 100Mbps capability (?)

"ThaiVisa speedtest" tells me I have 3852 Kbps upload / 400 Kbps download

A free "I forgot their name" site said 80 Kbps upload / 1137 Kbps download

The IP address identified was the same and in the latter case they identified my ISP as "True". Both tests were run within seconds of each other.

Am I mixing apples with oranges in my thought process? Is bandwidth test the same as a speedtest? Why does a brown cow give white milk, when it only eats green grass?

I have DSL. I am not complaining as it works fast enough for my requirements, tae mai khow chai!

Info would be appreciated.

Thairet

[trogers]

Perhaps you mistook LAN connection speed of 100 mbps (ethernet) with broadband speed.

New routers and modem are specified with 100 mbps LAN. The older generation is at 53 mbps.

[thairet]

Perhaps you mistook LAN connection speed of 100 mbps (ethernet) with broadband speed.

New routers and modem are specified with 100 mbps LAN. The older generation is at 53 mbps.

Thanks Trogers, for your "gentle" suggestion. I need to go back to school I guess. This subject was not in my curriculum 60 years ago!

Cheers Thairet

Added by Thairet...why do speedtesters vary when they ping?

Thanks again, Thairet

[Project504naha]

Dear Thairet

Firstly, never trust the following:

What the papers say,

What Santa Clause promises (he does come more than once a year)

What the bar girls tell you

Speed Tests are conducted in Thailand using a 'domestic' reference. Ie its the speed you experience when accessing webistes hosted in Thailand. Connecting to sites hosted in the US for instance have been slow. However, Santa Clause has already delivered a brand new gift - a high-bandwidth fibre-optic submarine cable system that connects Southeast Asia to the United States.

Dont mix your apples and oranges. If you are based outside of Bangkok, be thank full for what you have. Bits and bytes come in all shapes, colors and sizes.

What will you be cooking this Christmas?

[thairet]

Dear Thairet

Firstly, never trust the following:

What the papers say,

What Santa Clause promises (he does come more than once a year)

What the bar girls tell you

Speed Tests are conducted in Thailand using a 'domestic' reference. Ie its the speed you experience when accessing webistes hosted in Thailand. Connecting to sites hosted in the US for instance have been slow. However, Santa Clause has already delivered a brand new gift - a high-bandwidth fibre-optic submarine cable system that connects Southeast Asia to the United States.

Dont mix your apples and oranges. If you are based outside of Bangkok, be thank full for what you have. Bits and bytes come in all shapes, colors and sizes.

What will you be cooking this Christmas?

Hee Hee

What the papers say, I only read toilet papers

What Santa Clause promises (he does come more than once a year) Twice maybe? about same as me these days

What the bar girls tell you You are so right, they lie...B800...no problem, when I drop my drawers they end up paying me

Turkey and oddly enough it looks just like me!

Thanks Project good info, Thairet

[powderpuff]

It depends on what server you are "pinging" & what country that server is located in. Try Singapore & then USA.

[Hern]

Just another small thing to note maybe you know this anyway.

For example if lets say you get a 100mbps package from your ISP that does not mean that is the speed you will run at. It is just the most you could run at if you had a very fast sparklingly new line to run it all on that is capable of carrying 100mb (unlikely outside of Korea, Japan or Sweden). What i mean is its more to do with the quality of line you have so for example back home in the UK i had a 20mb package from my ISP but the lines where i was could only reach about 7mb down speed. As others stated where you are pinging too affects the rest.

[chevyinasia]

Most everything's been answered, but let me see if I can clarify a little more and even pre-empt some questions.

Network connection speeds are rated in bits per second, so you'll see DSL connections at 10Mbps (megabits), newer LAN equipment that can deliver 1Gbit (gigabit) locally. Most speed test utilities respect this convention and report using the same measure. However, most downloading tools, like using your browser to download things from the web, measure the download in bytes per second. A byte is 8 bits, thus, the most a person could expect out of a 1Mbps DSL connection under ideal conditions is 128KBps. Many people are just shocked to see they get one-tenth of their capacity.

Ping rates will differ depending on the distance to the server and also transient conditions, including such factors as how hard the wind is blowing the flimsy little cables on the street leading up to your house. Your actual connection speed at any given time will also vary depending on these same factors. There's a LOT of cable between your house to Bangkok (where ALL internet traffic in Thailand is routed through) and, say, the UK, and there are a lot of entities responsible for the condition of their segments of said cable along the way. Also keep in mind, your residential DSL connection is served out of a box that serves anywhere from 50 to 200 subscribers. These boxes are never allocated enough bandwidth to support all of its subscribers using their full download speed at the time time, more like 20-30% of this. During periods of heavy load, such as in the late afternoon and early evening when students flood internet cafes or get on their home PCs or network-enabled gaming consoles, your available bandwidth drops dramatically.

A good resource is www.speedtest.net which allows you to gauge your connection to nearly anywhere in the world.

Edit: I just did a test to Chicago from Chiang Mai and I'm getting almost the same speed as testing against a local server. That transcontinental cable must be working!

[webfact]

Moved to Internet Forum

[mommysboy]

Moved to Internet Forum

It also depends on whether you, well your net connection anyway, has the jitters. Go to pingtest.net. My True connection shows speeds of 3 meg, but it's often slow, and drops pages. The pingtest rated it at grade "D". Oh well, should I really have expected anydifferent?