Regardless here is a speed test from speedtest.net, a site I was informed games results.
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Regardless here is a speed test from speedtest.net, a site I was informed games results. | ||
icydergosu
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Regarding the speedtest.net testing method: They use several Download and Upload threads concurrently for a test to saturate your connection. Using multiple threads concurrently is not unusual since that is what is usually needed when using tcp to be able to make sure that your connection is fully saturated. Using a low latency connection like fiber and a server within your vicinity in canada should not require multiple download threads to max out your connection. However testing the way speedtest.net currently does it masks providers which throttle download/upload threads to certain Mbps values. You should have no troubles maxing out your connection with only one download thread from a canadian server. To test this you could download one of the files i linked and time how long it took to download completely. Chrome for example does not save that information(total time or average speed), i am not sure if there is an addon for chrome or other browsers. Otherwise you would probably need a download manager for windows which saves the average speed or total time. It is important that you download the whole file since some ISPs seem to be masking their shady behaviour by bursting(letting your download thread run without a leash) from time to time. In this case the larger the file the better since even if they apply short periods of bursting the average download value will still show because we looked at a larger set of data. | ||
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Canada288 Posts
For the records there are two high speed internet providers in Saskatchewan so options are slim and I simply happy this provider tries to provide me with as optimal results as possible. | ||
Fuchsteufelswild
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Maybe my brain's gone silly but 30 seconds at 35Mbps (Megabits) would be 1050 Mb (Megabits) downloaded, which is 131.25 MB (Megabytes). To get 1000 MB (1GB) in thirty seconds would be 1000÷30=33.33 MB/s or 266.66Mb/s. 266.66 ≠ 35 and I doubt you have 266.66Mb/s if they tell you you're getting (up to) "50Mb/s". | ||
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