robskypoint Posted February 1, 2011 CID Share Posted February 1, 2011 So my situation is this.. My condominium is under a bulk agreement with an ISP. In the contract they are supposed to provide a minimum of 10 Mb/s. Among other things, they also are required to monitor our speeds and increase bandwidth to meet this requirement. The past few months August - December, the internet was horrible during peak times. Due to a lot of complaining they attempted to improve it. Among other things, we want to gather evidence that our ISP isn't living up to the contract. I thought this was a great website because I can montior speeds every half hour. Speedtest.net does not have a way to automate tests. However Speedtest.net tells me drastically different information. How can I tell what is accurate? Unlike people that just want to see a nice big number and are hoping for one, I want to see the most realistic number possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 1, 2011 CID Share Posted February 1, 2011 Depending on the location of the server in relation to your location, peak time and peak testing times on other sites , you may get different results. With testmy.net , the server at the moment is a constant. Of course we all deal with peak times, but this is a given and is not relevant to testmy.net servers. Just your specific route. You may have a optimal reference to your issues , that is if you are aware of issues within your local network to begin with, yet still get an elevated test at one of the flash testing sites. It can be a good indication as to the more accurate testing procedure. Which my thoughts are your getting higher test scoring elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriRan Posted February 1, 2011 CID Share Posted February 1, 2011 this site is as accurate as i've seen :::.. TriRan's Download Test Results ..::: Download Connection is:: 46640 Kbps about 46.6 Mbps (tested with 50 MB) Download Speed is:: 5830 kB/s or 5.8 MB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Dallas, TX USA) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/db/CZ9T4QHKM Test Time:: 2011-02-01 12:40:35 GMT -7 1MB Download in 0.18 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~3 Minutes - 813X faster than 56K Tested from a 50 MB file and took 8.993 seconds to complete Running at 364% of hosts average (Cox.net) User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 [!] i'm in arizona so several hundred miles from the server on a 50meg connection over wifi 60ft from my router Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xs1 Posted February 6, 2011 CID Share Posted February 6, 2011 Im in iowa advertised 15 /2 ; This site is as realistic as it gets. :::.. .s1's Combined Test Results ..::: Download Connection is:: 8471 Kbps about 8.47 Mbps (tested with 15 MB) Download Speed is:: 1059 kB/s or 1.1 MB/s Upload Connection is:: 1240 Kbps about 1.2 Mbps (tested with 2.9 MB) Upload Speed is:: 155 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Dallas, TX USA) Test Time:: 2011-02-06 09:13:39 GMT -7 Validation:: https://testmy.net/db/QHO2ICWBX&q2=638POZRQC&dual=yes User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 [!] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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