 OmegaDisplaced OhioanPremium
join:2002-07-30
Cheyenne, WY | reply to rvdsabu4life6
Re: What do speed tests actually measure Sounds like someone doesn't know the difference between kilobytes a second and megabits a second.
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 Ray422Premium,MVM
join:2002-03-04
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 ·RoadRunner Cable
| I have wondered about this turbo-crap these ISP's are advertising. Isn't that just a momentary boost to fake (gimmick) the short speedtest, so they can say their speeds are better than actual?
Me wonders if a throughput test on a large file is the only thing that's reliable now days? |
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 ·Frontier FiOS
| that is what i always go by... i will usually fire up my news reader or download a windows service pack from microsoft and measure it with an app called "netpersec" as well as my firewall meter, and windows explorer messages. usually they will all agree (or be close). you have to account for overhead when using meters like netpersec or others, too. |
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said by Ray422:I have wondered about this turbo-crap these ISP's are advertising. Isn't that just a momentary boost to fake (gimmick) the short speedtest, so they can say their speeds are better than actual? Me wonders if a throughput test on a large file is the only thing that's reliable now days? Indeed so Ray, My ISP uses "speed boost". On a speed test it shows up to 30Mb/s from my lowly 10Mb connection.
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