EPTOn December 07 2010 18:01 r4sc wrote:
Bear in mind these public speedtesters can be wildly inaccurate. I just took the test on speedtest.net on a 1Gbit/s line, it came out with just 70Mbit/s (i.e. an error margin of >1000%). speedtest.net (which used a server sponsered by Vodaphone supposed to be only a few kms away from here) measured a ping of 9ms which is pretty accurate (servers <200km away clock in at about 5-10ms). cnet's test is even worse with measly 12Mbit/s.
The only way you can be sure of your actual connection speed is testing it with a server you can ensure is not suffering congestion and has a sufficiently fast connection.
Bear in mind these public speedtesters can be wildly inaccurate. I just took the test on speedtest.net on a 1Gbit/s line, it came out with just 70Mbit/s (i.e. an error margin of >1000%). speedtest.net (which used a server sponsered by Vodaphone supposed to be only a few kms away from here) measured a ping of 9ms which is pretty accurate (servers <200km away clock in at about 5-10ms). cnet's test is even worse with measly 12Mbit/s.
The only way you can be sure of your actual connection speed is testing it with a server you can ensure is not suffering congestion and has a sufficiently fast connection.
You running off a fiber optic connection or something? I mean I know Europe connection speeds are generally high, but wtf @ 1Gbps o.O
Sure you don't just have a gigabit router/switch?
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