juking
join:2006-03-11
New York, NY
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March 23rd, @02:13PM
| Questions about a popular speed test- Ping, and ranking, etc
»www.speedtest.net/index.php
Most of us have seen the above speed test. My question is this: My speed is an average of 18/1.5 My global/country rank is 95/93%. Why would my father's global/country rank show in the 49%/45% position, when his speed is 45/4.5? He has embarq, and I have a different company. Our suggested server is 100 miles away. Also, based on my above speed, what should my approximate ping be? |
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beerbum
Premium
join:2000-05-06
somewhere
 ·Comcast
| said by juking  : what should my approximate ping be? depends on 1) available bandwidth, 2) traffic on local network, 3) traffic on backbone network, 4) load on destination server/router, and 5) network topology (distance)..
ping times could be anywhere from 1ms to 500ms plus.. there truly is no average or approximate ping - it all depends on the above network conditions..
for example, using the above site on my 8800/768 connection I can get a 50ms ping from a server located 1000 miles away while getting a 90ms ping from a server located 100 miles away - all depends on the network load at the time of the test.. 
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juking
join:2006-03-11
New York, NY | Thanks, but everything you said was kinda obvious. Why would my dad recieve a lower ranking, when my speed was higher? |
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