Friday, July 8, 2011

Speedtest.net says 1.93 Mbs I get 170Kbs in Chrome, somethings wrong?

It depends on line traffic and how busy the servers are. Every person does not have their own line direct to the sites browsed, we have to share and a lines capacity is finite. Therefore it is like getting a whole school of kids out of 1 door. 1 kid can run through, 10 kids will have to adjust their speed and route through. A 1000 kids will be bottlenecked and some will pass through different doors, taking a different route. That is exactly how your internet works. It is also the reason that most ISP's restrict downloads at peak times or charge much more for a server with greater capacity. Try your speed test at 3.00 in the morning and you will see much better speeds.

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