Diane E Posted April 8, 2020 CID Share Posted April 8, 2020 I am wondering why my results here are so much lower than all the other speed tests I have run.. Download speeds on other sites are all over 100 and Uploads are over 10 whereas here I am looking at 44/5.7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pgoodwin1 Posted April 9, 2020 CID Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) The short answer is that your ISP test Server site is <50 miles from you, and is not reporting the complete results to you.nearby test servers don’t give you a realistic internet performance speed because most of the time when you use the internet, the sites you connect to are much farther away than 50 miles and go through a complex web of nodes. You can see on the green and yellow graph above that your download speed is all over the place but the result they give you (109Mbps) is the value it was at the end of the test, The actual value of that data is far lower than 109 if they had averaged over the whole test period. Here’s a good write up of why the TestMy results are meaningful and the ISP tests have a limited usefulness. Read all the tabs on this page. https://testmy.net/legit-speed-test.php Edited April 9, 2020 by Pgoodwin1 minor added info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diane E Posted April 9, 2020 Author CID Share Posted April 9, 2020 Thank you ...I'm sure it will most likely confuse the heck out of me but I will definitely take a look and I will read all of the tabs as you suggest. Pgoodwin1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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