NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| reply to N4ZX
Re: [Xtreme] Which Speed Test Is Right? said by N4ZX:I am confused about speed tests ... What should I believe? All of them, or none of them; take your pick. There are a slew of variables which will affect your data transfer speed from other parts of the Internet. WRT speed test sites, some of the variables are limitations inherent in the JS, or Flash implementations of the tests.
In general the most accurate speed test is the download speed reported by the client for the current file you are downloading from any given source. Even then you have to take into account routing and their server upload capacity (you can't download any faster than they can upload; unless they are able to upload faster than your download speed, they might be the bottleneck).
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Norman
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