[Snap] Speed tests with Snap.

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wildfire

24 posts

Geek

#101346 29-Apr-2012 21:24

I sometimes use the speed test site Speakeasy at http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ and I was noticing with speed tests to Seattle and San Francisco I was getting just over 9mbs/sec sometimes in Windows 7, how realiable of an indicator is this speed test? cause on speedtest.net I was getting much lower than that to the US.

Previously on Telecom's ADSL2+ would be lucky if I got over 3.5mb/sec to those same locations on that speakeasy site.

I use a wireless connection to another PC which is only about 4 metres away from my room.

McGee

200 posts

Master Geek

#617259 30-Apr-2012 09:48

Looks like the are both hosted / made by Ookla so the results should be roughly the same.

I have heard that speedtest.net can be inaccurate often through.

Also you should always be doing speed tests via ethernet more so than wireless as you can get quite a bit of performance loss over wireless.

mercutio

1392 posts

Uber Geek

#617325 30-Apr-2012 11:11

some of the speedtest.net sites are better than others. i assume that speakeasy is providing all of these and have decent bandwidth.

i did about 4 diff tests, and each seemed to max out my line. (but it appears you have to reload page, or it tries to sell you 2x2 megabit internet plans in the US for $199/month.

hmm check out:

http://www.megapath.com/speedtestplus/

i get

Your Mean Opinion Score (MOS) is 4.32. The quality of your broadband connection and projected line quality is Good.

with 10 megabit sync. it tests jitter etc too.

vexxxboy

4244 posts

Uber Geek

#617391 30-Apr-2012 12:27

not sure if they are accurate i tested Seattle and got 4.3 Mbps download , yet i just downloaded a game from GOG.com and i was getting 1.6Mbps downloading the file.

Common sense is not as common as you think.

mercutio

1392 posts

Uber Geek

#617392 30-Apr-2012 12:29

vexxxboy: not sure if they are accurate i tested Seattle and got 4.3 Mbps download , yet i just downloaded a game from GOG.com and i was getting 1.6Mbps downloading the file.

with 1 download or parallel? also los angeles could be faster than seattle

oh hangon, you were getting 1.6megabit?! that's pathetic :)

# lookmeup www.gog.com
Rev 1: CA QC Montreal

looks like it's on the east side of Canada.. so could be slower.

try the new york test for a better comparison.

mercutio

1392 posts

Uber Geek

#617399 30-Apr-2012 12:43

well it seems that they're not hosting files in the same place as their web site.

http://gog.com.s3.amazonaws.com/secure/teenagent/setup_teenagent.exe?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIAVMKZ5K6VXNGU6A&Expires=1335746740&Signature=02NEd1ffYabkGWUw%2Fibwgcy3zpI%3D&extForIE=.exe

they appear to have some free downloads

# lookmeup gog.com.s3.amazonaws.com
Rev 1: US WA Seattle

and you're right, it is Seattle.. but amazon tends to be pretty bad for net speeds back to nz

from the US it's pretty fast.
# curl -O 'http://gog.com.s3.amazonaws.com/secure/teenagent/setup_teenagent.exe?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIAVMKZ5K6VXNGU6A&Expires=1335746740&Signature=02NEd1ffYabkGWUw%2Fibwgcy3zpI%3D&extForIE=.exe'
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 9190k 100 9190k 0 0 5580k 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 5669k

(that's about 5.7 megabytes/sec)

and now it wont' let me download it frmo any more places heh.

wildfire

24 posts

Geek

#617650 30-Apr-2012 21:11

yeah mercutio it says on the speakeasy site it is now part of megapath.

My results seem more in line tonight, 5.84 to San Fran on speakeasy and this on speedtest.net, will be slower at peak times no doubt.

hehe but wireless connection is not an accurate result as McGee already stated but with speed tests to christchurch and auckland results for me have been similar to telecom with about 15-16mbs/sec. I noticed in a recent survey they said Snap had the slowest result out of NZ ISP's for loading web pages but are on the improve.

mercutio

1392 posts

Uber Geek

#617670 30-Apr-2012 21:32

wildfire: yeah mercutio it says on the speakeasy site it is now part of megapath.

My results seem more in line tonight, 5.84 to San Fran on speakeasy and this on speedtest.net, will be slower at peak times no doubt.

hehe but wireless connection is not an accurate result as McGee already stated but with speed tests to christchurch and auckland results for me have been similar to telecom with about 15-16mbs/sec. I noticed in a recent survey they said Snap had the slowest result out of NZ ISP's for loading web pages but are on the improve.

i wouldn't trust the truenet benchmarks. i've done my own testing with the chrome benchmarking plugin, and cable is slower than dsl. and yet they say it's consistently a lot faster.

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wildfire

24 posts

Geek

#617677 30-Apr-2012 21:39

mercutio:

i wouldn't trust the truenet benchmarks. i've done my own testing with the chrome benchmarking plugin, and cable is slower than dsl. and yet they say it's consistently a lot faster.

thats very interesting to say the least.

mercutio

1392 posts

Uber Geek

#617692 30-Apr-2012 21:54

wildfire:
mercutio:

i wouldn't trust the truenet benchmarks. i've done my own testing with the chrome benchmarking plugin, and cable is slower than dsl. and yet they say it's consistently a lot faster.

thats very interesting to say the least.

it's a bit of a pita, and i don't know of any easy way to automate it.

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/how-the-extension-system-works/chrome-benchmarking-extension

http://xanadu.meh.net.nz/2012-4-21-tc-direct.png

If you can beat that result, that's 15/2 megabit telstraclear cable in Christchurch with 24ish msec ping to Auckland i seem to recall.

the url list is:

http://www.google.co.nz/,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page,http://www.nzherald.co.nz,http://edition.cnn.com,http://www.youtube.com,http://www.amazon.com,http://www.bbc.co.uk,http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx,http://www.gpforums.co.nz/,http://slashdot.org,http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=home,http://www.anandtech.com,https://www.speedtest.net,http://www.osnews.com,http://www.apple.com,http://www.ebay.com,http://www.trademe.co.nz,http://www.amazon.co.uk,http://www.vodafone.co.nz,http://www.nzcouriers.co.nz,http://www.godaddy.com,http://www.guardiannews.com,http://www.adobe.com,http://arstechnica.com,http://www.nytimes.com,https://typekit.com