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

[R2DJ]

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.

 

[xcalibur]

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.

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...

And that's on the Up to 8Meg/best package, I'm too far from the exchange to get nice speeds.

 

[Bishang]

Our's is okay.

 

[War]

Yeah, for whatever reason, the speed from speedtest is never your actual download speed :\

 

[Minox]

Yeah, for whatever reason, the speed from speedtest is never your actual download speed :\

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.

 

[Jackreyes]

one byte is 8 bits, I think.

so... divide by 8.

 

[Minox]

one byte is 8 bits, I think.

so... divide by 8.

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.

 

[Jackreyes]

ok, 10 then.
8 tends to be pretty accurate with me though.

 

[xcalibur]

Yeah, for whatever reason, the speed from speedtest is never your actual download speed :\

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.

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.

 

[Sonicandtails]

I don't think this is right, my actual download speed is 2.5MB/s

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.

 

[dearodie]

Wish I were in Japan, speed is way better there.

 

[Joe88]

~nvm

already answered

 

[dice]

 

[Ferrariman]

My school gets like 23mb/s