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wahoospa
join:2006-03-23
Charleston, SC
| Speakeasy DSL test gives extra fast results When I do a DSL test at Speakeasy, and several other test sites, on the indicator there is a needle and below that there is a ball and as they move during the download part they really jerk and hesitate a lot and sometimes I get speed results double of what I should. I know this is impossible. I did the BellSouth test but they don't show what is going on during the test. Anyone got an idea what it is causing this? | |
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graysonf
Premium,MVM
join:1999-07-16
Fort Lauderdale, FL
| Re: Speakeasy DSL test gives extra fast results Unless you really know how the calculations are done and what timings are used in thee things, you can't say much about their reliability. However, when clearly impossible results are obtained, you should stop trusting that test no matter what it says on other occasions. | |
| | | ruraltn
join:2008-05-16
| I get consistently good results with Speakeasy, but they are never out of reason. I just ran Speakeasy, Speedtest, and the above mentioned ATT test. Speakeasy and Speedtest both came in at 3Mbs, while AT&T was 1.5 Mbs. I am signed up for 3 Mbs service, currently running a sync rate of 5024 interleaved, according to my modem.
I happen to have a little network monitor applet that graphs input and output data rates. When I test against Speakeasy's closest node, the applet consistently shows a smooth even data flow at higher rates that most of the other test sites, so I tend to believe that Speakeasy's servers aren't overloaded and may be capable of delivering more accurate rates that the other sites, most of the time.
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| | bcfromfl
join:2007-09-06
Youngstown, FL
 ·AT&T Southeast
| The jerking and hesitating you note while using Speakeasy is the result of pauses/latency in the line. I don't have any proof of this, of course, but back when we were a BellSouth customer, they would always recommend using Speakeasy for speedtests, rather than FastAccess. I suspect this is because there are some shared lines between the Speakeasy/BellSouth/AT&T servers, and that would explain the good results.
I don't know what method Speakeasy uses to calculate upload/download, but I'm suspicious of the exceptionally good and consistent results. IMO, the most accurate tests -- and most comprehensive -- are at myvoipspeed.visualware.com
BTW, Speedtest.net uses a different method of calculating results that ONLY has relevance as a comparative tool for tests on their website. Trying to compare results from their site against other sites, for the most part, is like apples and oranges. The differences are subtle, but still relevant. | |
| | | | | wahoospa
join:2006-03-23
Charleston, SC
| I went around the corner to a friends house that has the same service that I have and his tests at Speakeasy was doing the same jerking and hesitating as mine. Tomorrow I will check on another friend on the same block I live on. I'm beginning to believe that the Speakeasy tests are OK and the problem is in the lines in my area. | |
| | Airwolf7
Premium
join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
·AT&T Southeast
| Re: Speakeasy DSL test gives extra fast results UPDATE! It is totally normal for see results like that when running the speed tests at Speakeasy. You would see that at other speed test sites if they had a little red moving ball. I like the Speakeasy speed tests and use them all the time because they work well. It jerks ever time I have ran a test at home and ever time I have ran a test anywhere else. Sometimes late at night, when decent folks would be in bed, I will run a test and it will be very smooth.
It is like that because the Internet sucks.
The Internet is not a well designed homogeneous system.
It is just a hodgepodge of forty eleven million mismatched networks thrown together and interconnected with strings and tin cans.
The Internet is the ultimate Rube Goldberg machine. »Way to much free time | |
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