4 ms·
Strangely, fast.com still reports faster connection speeds than my broadband is supposed to offer. No, my broadband is not faster than what I'm paying for, I ca
by mrtksn 5y ago
Strangely, fast.com still reports faster connection speeds than my broadband is supposed to offer. No, my broadband is not faster than what I'm paying for, I can see that when monitoring actual transfers(including the transfers when doing the tests). They do offer about %95 of the promised speed, not %110 that fast.com or speedtest.net measures.
- kiwijamo 5y agoIn New Zealand it is somewhat well known that our local fibre providers actually provisions each connection for slightly more than the agreed speed. E.g. 100mbits is usually provisioned at around 110mbits. So our speed tests are usually just over 100mbits (due to TCP etc overheads taking some of the overprovisoned parts). Wonder if that is what is happening to you.
- lostlogin 5y agoThis seems to fall off at gigabit, but I’d love to test with 2, 4 or 8gbps which Orcon (and maybe others) are offering. My ONT only supports gigabit out, so I can’t test faster options. That said, fast.com has told me I’m getting 1.2gbps recently…
- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoYou can't always saturate transfers to and from random servers (whose bandwith is) not controlled by you.
- notatoad 5y agothe common problem with speedtests is that they're all pretty brief. whether it's speedtest.net or fast.com, it's over in a few seconds so they're not necesarily measuring the sustained speed your ISP is giving you, just the burst speed. that being said, getting a higher burst speed still makes browsing the web a much more pleasant experience, so it's not like they're just gaming the speed tests.