free speed test working for you?

[Cheap56k]

We are testing a new free service we are offering, but need to know if
it is working 100% for our visitors. This is a online speed test, and
we are trying to tweak it to show as accurate results as possible.
Please let us know if this FREE service is of use to you!

This is a link to the bandwidth speed test:

http://www.cheap56k.com/free-speed-test.php

 

[Dumb Bunny]

Here is the result from your link, at a time when my ISP indicated a
downstream speed of 50.6 kpc
Download Speed 385.09 kb/sec
(Yes I would find this tool useful!)

 

[Cheap56k]

are you saying this IS working an accurate for you? All my programmers
say its dead on, but not showing accurate results for me I want to
hear what others experience.

 

[El Bandolero]

Il 12 Feb 2006 16:59:00 -0800, Cheap56k ha scritto:

This is a link to the bandwidth speed test:

Your download speed is 627.09 kbit/sec!

It's impossible, since I download at 800/900 kiloBYTES per seconds

Your latency is: 125 ms (Poor)

What is latency?

 

[dszady]

Il 12 Feb 2006 16:59:00 -0800, Cheap56k ha scritto:


Your download speed is 627.09 kbit/sec!

It's impossible, since I download at 800/900 kiloBYTES per seconds

Your latency is: 125 ms (Poor)

What is latency?

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/l/latency.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobit_per_second
Yes, it looks like the test results were wrong for you.

It all depends on how far away you are from the server.
The farther away you are the more the latency(packets lost) will go up.

Mine:
Your download speed is 1886.83 kbit/sec! 235.9Kb
Your latency is: 95 ms (Average)

 

[Horst]

are you saying this IS working an accurate for you? All my programmers
say its dead on, but not showing accurate results for me I want to
hear what others experience.

I don't know who is right:
your site reports abt 400 - 450 kb/s
on http://www.numion.com/ i get 580 - 620 kb/s (which is closer to the
600 kb/s my ISP told me)
Horst

 

[Cheap56k]

"It all depends on how far away you are from the server" That is
exactly what my programmer constantly are trying to explain to me (in
their robotic programmer language) however I am not a programmer
(marketing guy) and when i test my own connection from several other
online sources I get different results. He explained the results are
dead accurate and it is all relative to my computer to our co-located
server....

 

[Al Klein]

"It all depends on how far away you are from the server" That is
exactly what my programmer constantly are trying to explain to me (in
their robotic programmer language) however I am not a programmer
(marketing guy) and when i test my own connection from several other
online sources I get different results. He explained the results are
dead accurate and it is all relative to my computer to our co-located
server....

The farther away you are from a server, the longer it takes a signal
to get there and back, even if there's nothing between you and it but
wire (or fiber). Speed of light, at very best, which is only about
186 miles/millisecond, so it's over 32 milliseconds round trip from
coast to coast if there's no delay anywhere in the path.

The farther you are from a server, the more routers there are likely
to be between you and it. Each router adds a little bit of delay.
(Nothing works at infinite speed, and some computers are really slow
compared to infinite.)

Does that make it any easier to understand?

 

[Terry Russell]

"It all depends on how far away you are from the server" That is
exactly what my programmer constantly are trying to explain to me (in
their robotic programmer language) however I am not a programmer
(marketing guy) and when i test my own connection from several other
online sources I get different results. He explained the results are
dead accurate and it is all relative to my computer to our co-located
server....

you always will, how long does a 10 minute bus trip take at peak hour
during rain ?

I get 251k ( which seems strange ), 1.6Mbit
it is actually 1.5Mbit/sec, which should be about 160K,
approximately, there may be various levels of compression.

if they are taking actual bits 160k could look like 1.6mbit

The only real concern is if the connection is rating outside about +-30%
of what you expect. if it checks 1.2mb it probably isn't a 1mb connection

 

[Terry Russell]

"It all depends on how far away you are from the server" That is
exactly what my programmer constantly are trying to explain to me (in
their robotic programmer language) however I am not a programmer
(marketing guy) and when i test my own connection from several other
online sources I get different results. He explained the results are
dead accurate and it is all relative to my computer to our co-located
server....

Anyway, the site looks a tad too commercial
and the speed test doesn't show anything not available
using net monitoring

xp allprograms/admin tools/performance
for cable/adsl networkmodem on usb/ethernet

rightclick add counter
network bytes recvd per second
or dialup
rasport bytes recvd per second

( similar for w9x )

then saveas the monitor and make a shortcut link for that configuaration
to it to see the realtime down/upload speed anytime you want

There are a couple of rules of thumb:

download something, multiply bytes per second by 10, thats approximately the
link speed you are getting,

if your dialup connects at 50kbits you can dl 5-6Kbytes/sec
broadband at 1.5mb 150-160Kbytes/sec

when downloading compressible material the Kbytes/sec
may occasionally spike to 1.5x , 3x or more

or :

If something really strange happens that just means a fairy has sprinkled
some mathemagical fairy dust on the wires that squishes stuff up like a
sponge,
it should go back to normal in a while.

 

[Matt]

We are testing a new free service we are offering, but need to know if
it is working 100% for our visitors. This is a online speed test, and
we are trying to tweak it to show as accurate results as possible.
Please let us know if this FREE service is of use to you!

This is a link to the bandwidth speed test:

http://www.cheap56k.com/free-speed-test.php

Completely wrong for me...

It gave me:
(graphic - 1378.72 kbyte/sec)
Your download speed is 8.88 mbit/sec!
Your latency is: 117 ms (Fair)

I am on a 1Mbit service.


A few other things look interesting.. Free Newsgroups ?
I guess that will be tied to the dialup ISPwhen it opens?

 

[Cheap56k]

so the results are too fast or too slow? Need some feedback to tweak
it. Also i read some comments that the site appears too "commercial"
.... what in particular gives this impression? We just want to offer a
free tool at this point and not sell a thing (honestly), so if you have
ANY suggestions on how to make it appear more informative rather than
commerical we will act on those suggestions. In addition if there is
any further data you would like to see form this tool in regards to
speed tests please let us know and one of my developers will crank it
out!