Internet connection speed

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Ruchit

 

I have my internet wireless router kept 2 rooms away from my usual working location at home here in Redmond, WA. I decided to run speedtest on my internet connectivity at home783983213[2] and I am surprised.

You are reading it right, these are real internet numbers and not because of some error.

My another machine which is connected over wire, shows much better numbers

783998361[1]

Then I asked Vishwa who lives in Pune, India to run the same test on his connection and below is what he found. Ironically, he was getting this poor internet speed at Pune IT park.

783994056[1]

Update: A friend of mine told me that, most of the internet service providers in USA do a trick so that when someone performs a speed test like i did using the site, numbers are high! Whenever you open a site, first few incoming/outgoing bytes from a new site will be marked for faster delivery and then packet speed for the later goes down slowly.  This would make most of the speed test results inaccurate which are based on the first few byte test.

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  • vishwa

    and u will be surprised to know that the speed am getting here is a when we paid 'extra' :)

    u can think of the speed which comes with basic cost that these guys offer

  • ruchit

    A friend of mine told me that, most of the internet service providers in USA do a trick so that when someone performs a speed test like i did using the site, numbers are high! Whenever you open a site, first few incoming/outgoing bytes from a new site will be marked for faster delivery and then packet speed for the later goes down slowly. This would make most of the speed test results inaccurate which are based on the first few byte test.

  • L Nila

    It is a good information about internet speed………
    Like the same way , i check my internet speed everyday……….both downloading & uploading speed through this site http://www.ip-details.com/internet-speed-test/
    My speed test results are,
    upload speed:0.52 kbps
    download speed:1.96 kbps
    It has the best & accurate results for my internet speed test!!!!