I dont understand my upload speed

ShiWarrior · 5 Jul 2006 at 10:21

I am with Nildram, and I decided to see if i can get 8Mb line, yet, answer was no, but i can get a 6.5Mb line :confused:

anyway, i did there own speed test thing to see what my speeds where like and saw these :

http://www.kbps.co.uk/SpeedCheck_report.php?session_id=sc_1152090745_285

download is right 2Mb line. but the upload is saying 126.30Mb which cant be right, i can only upload at 30k/s (256K)

barnettgs · 5 Jul 2006 at 10:24

Try this speedtest: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

ShiWarrior · 5 Jul 2006 at 10:30

barnettgs said:
Try this speedtest: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

thats more like it...

Last Result:
Download Speed: 1872 kbps (234 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 231 kbps (28.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

so why whas the other one saying over 120 upload ?

WASHINGTON DC :
Last Result:
Download Speed: 1898 kbps (237.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 233 kbps (29.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

thats more like it

Result:
Download Speed: 1927 kbps (240.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 233 kbps (29.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

barnettgs · 5 Jul 2006 at 10:40

ShiWarrior said:
so why whas the other one saying over 120 upload ?

Dunno, I suspect speedtest wasn't set up properly.

Also there is another speedtest site: http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

But I prefer the first one.

tolien · 5 Jul 2006 at 11:42

Or better still, try a speedtest based in the UK, like ADSLguide's.

US-based speedtests are bad.

I am with Nildram, and I decided to see if i can get 8Mb line, yet, answer was no, but i can get a 6.5Mb line

What's to be confused about?
You aren't getting an "8Mbps line" or a "6.5 Mbps", you're going to get a connection that'll do between 0 and 8Mbps. Where on that scale will depend on how good the line you've got is.

ShiWarrior · 5 Jul 2006 at 12:02

tolien said:
Or better still, try a speedtest based in the UK, like ADSLguide's.

US-based speedtests are bad.

What's to be confused about?
You aren't getting an "8Mbps line" or a "6.5 Mbps", you're going to get a connection that'll do between 0 and 8Mbps. Where on that scale will depend on how good the line you've got is.

cheers

yeah, i often use adsl guide for testing

I was just a little confused becuase they stated that my line was 6.5 not 8, but yeah i will get anything "in between"