Bandwidth Speed

[PaulB]

Hey. Apart from 'Bandwidthplace.com' does anyone know of any good Bandwidth Speed Test sites for my Boradband connection and, is it true that, although I am paying for a 1024Kbs connection, 90% of the time it is way under that? Cheers in advance

[PaulB]

Err, I mean Broadband....

[Dave Potts]

One of my colleagues uses this test - it's simple and quick (takes about 10-15 secs) - http://specials.zdnet.co.uk/misc/band-test/speedte
st.html

[PaulB]

1854.5 Kbps 227.3 K bytes/sec
Theyre my results.... huh? Don't get it :'o(
Does that mean that instead of 1024 it is 227.3?

[Dave Potts]

'Fraid so! It's very rare that you get anywhere near 100% - I currently get 435.9 Kbps / 53.4 K bytes/sec on a 512Kb connection - your 1 Meg connection's underperformance may be largely down to your ISP's contention ratio. Some ISPs perform way better than others, but a lot of them funnel so many of their subscribers through one combined connection that demand outstrips the capacity, especially at peak times. Try running the test again at 2 in the morning! :o)

[UBBERgoose]

Hey, so u know, ur paying for a connection of 1024 kbps (kilobits-per second), which (if it was going FLAT out, which i doubt it will be most of the time) should give you a download speed of 128 Kbytes (kilobytes-per second) you can convert Bits to Bytes by dividing by 8 as there are 8 Bits in a Byte. SO, this means that the test results you recieved are actually overly good, although its more likely that its just a mistake with the test, would reccommend trying a few different tests from different sites and comparing them.

[Dave Potts]

Good point UBBERgoose - PaulB's figures are more typical of a 2Mbps connection - thought they were a bit good compared to my lowly 512Kbps results :o)

[BenDToy]

I'm told this one is quite good http://www.numion.com/YourSpeed/Checkup.php?L=worl
d&Duration=30&Repeat=600&Layout=1

[Prabhdeep]

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Check at http://www.solarwinds.com

[VaaMachi]

You can check your broadband speed using http://www.scanmyspeed.com/ . There do a extended speed scan to get accurate test results. It is not unusual to get speed less than the speed mentioned in the broadband plan.