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Not understanding speedtest?

Not sure what you mean by compare.

What speed are you paying for? I'm on 60/4, and get about 66/5 most the time. Poor compared to yours, but slightly more than what I am paying for. Can't expect much more than that.
 
I am new to networking, just trying to figure out what those numbers mean for me, is it good is it bad or in between or what's the industry standard for uplaod and download speeds?
 
Log to Verizon FIOS site and see what they offer.

Do the same for cable logging to Time Warner.

Very basic Services starts in may places at 1Mb/sec Down and 256Kb/sec. Up

Most prevalent Normal FIOS and Cable are 15 Mb/sec. Down and 5Mb/sec. to 15 Mb/sec. Up

As a frame of reference Time Warner provides home Cable Internet service in New York Citi of 15Mb/sec. Down 5Mb/sec/ Up costs (when introduction marketing perks are over in few months to a year) monthly pay is about $65.

Verizon (starting last month) provides for similar price 15Mb/sec. Down and Up.


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I just did a verizon speed test: 63.37 download and 22.21 upload, I am wondering how that speedtest.net utility can report a download speed of 73? Also, so how does one test their net connection speed to be able to tell if your pc is taking longer than it show to access the net or move between pages?
 
Unless you are testing to the Verizon speed test site where the traffic is going to remain on their network you are going to see inconsistent results. What I mean by this is you are paying for a specific speed to get access onto their network.

If you test to the most local site, the site that speedtest recommends, chances are you are going to be testing end to end speeds on two different networks or across the network that the server is hosted on. If you end up calling the provider and telling them that you tested to some obscure site that running across someone elses network, they aren't going to be able to fix that issue and they are going to say that there is nothing wrong.

There are several speedtest sites in the US that you can test to, often you will see a wide range of results between sites that are just a couple towns away. If you get crappy results from one server it would be in your best interest to check several, there are some that just don't give good results and there is no way to know what kind of network your traffic is traversing to get there.
 
The question completely boils down to what you are paying for, compare that to your results.

As for typical, in the US, you are looking in the range of 15Mbps down and 3-5Mbps up is a "typical" internet connection in the US.

As for your other questions, even if you have a 10,000Mbps connection, that doesn't mean that will help you to some sites. If a site is really busy on a small pipe, you might only get a few hundred Kbps and the page will load slowly.

Just really depends. I'd say anyone who gets more than about 20Mbps down and 10Mbps up should consider themselves resonably lucky (says the guy who gets 82Mbps down and 90Mbps up).
 
mikehende said:
or what's the industry standard for uplaod and download speeds?
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There's no real "industry standard", but you have to compare your ISP's "speed package".

You should be getting substantially what you're paying for. If you aren't, then you may need to contact tech support.

Note that wifi is a YMMV. Always use a wired connection to get a true speedtest. If your connection speed is 100Mbit or higher, make sure your router has gigabit ports on it.
 
Also, remember you are only getting a good test to the test site in question, there may be a congested section of network on the way to whatever network resource you are trying to hit which may result in slow speeds for certain things.

Site A may go through an entirely different (and better) path than Site B
 
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