So I went on speedtest.net on the school's computer.

You guys ready to see the epic speed of my school's conncetion?

Are you sure you can handle it?



/facepalm

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xcalibur
[quote name='R2DJ' post='1508457' date='Oct 31 2008, 06:21 PM']
Anyone who's got BT here?

Apparently, this is the maximum speed that I can get from home. The max of the ISP is 8Mb...

I'll try the one in my college on Monday.[/quote]

The one I posted earlier was from BT but that was business broadband and not regular home broadband.
 
Quiche_on_a_leas
I wouldn't worry about your speed on BT...

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And that's on the Up to 8Meg/best package, I'm too far from the exchange to get nice speeds.
 
War
Yeah, for whatever reason, the speed from speedtest is never your actual download speed :\
 
Minox
[quote name='War' post='1508586' date='Oct 31 2008, 07:22 PM']Yeah, for whatever reason, the speed from speedtest is never your actual download speed :\[/quote]
That's because speedtest.net shows your download speed in kilobits/second instead of kilobytes/second which is the most used one when it comes to download speed.
 
G
one byte is 8 bits, I think.

so... divide by 8.
 
Minox
[quote name='Jackreyes' post='1508593' date='Oct 31 2008, 07:28 PM']one byte is 8 bits, I think.

so... divide by 8.[/quote]
When talking about transfer speeds that isn't necessarily true, some of the bandwidth are used to transfer what you're downloading/uploading. So if you want an almost correct speed you should roughly divide it by 10.
 
G
ok, 10 then.
8 tends to be pretty accurate with me though.
 
xcalibur
[quote name='Minox_IX' post='1508590' date='Oct 31 2008, 07:26 PM'][quote name='War' post='1508586' date='Oct 31 2008, 07:22 PM']Yeah, for whatever reason, the speed from speedtest is never your actual download speed :\[/quote]
That's because speedtest.net shows your download speed in kilobits/second instead of kilobytes/second which is the most used one when it comes to download speed.
[/quote]

I find it misleading that companies advertise with bits and never explain it later. It took me till I was 15 to get the difference.
 
S
[quote name='greyhound' post='1507330' date='Oct 31 2008, 01:51 AM']
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I don't think this is right, my actual download speed is 2.5MB/s[/quote]
Internet connection speed is normally displayed as kilobits per second.
The problem here is that "kb/s" is not equal to "kB/s".
The speedtest listed it as 17,484 kilobits, which is correct. Here is the math.
17,484 kb/s (Kilobits) is equal to ~2.1 MB/s (Megabytes).
 
Shinji
I tried to get the worst stats possible...and I did....


My REAL speed test with my closest server is...


MUCH MUCH better ♥
 
ackers


That's mine. Good dl speed but shit upload. Ah well I rarely upload anyway lol.
 
War
Well... divided by 10 still isn't correct for me. With ports forwarded and a 200+ seeded torrent, I should get speeds of around 140kB/s, since I have a 1.4MB connection, right? My speed is usually anywhere from 40~90kB/s

Hopefully I can convince my mom to upgrade to a 6MB connection though.
 

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