Do I have more bandwidth than the speedtest servers? (new record holder)

[maximehinnekens]

Hi everyone,

 

Here’s my fastest cross-Atlantic run: 4300 Mbps –   

 

I stumbled on this site while digging into ISP speeds worldwide, and suddenly I was #1 on the new members leaderboard—everyone else was way behind. No shade, but this is a speedtest forum, right?

What’s weird is that on other public tests I get even higher numbers, almost hitting my ISP’s advertised 8.5 Gbps down / 8 Gbps up. In real-world downloads from high-capacity servers (and on my 10 Gbps Thunderbolt adapter via the Archer BE800), I regularly max out.

So… are TestMy.net’s servers capping the results? Does anyone know what the max throughput these servers can handle under ideal conditions?

Any insights or similar experiences would be awesome.

Thanks, Maxime

 

 

 

[Pgoodwin1]

Two probable reasons for the difference.

1. your other speed test servers were very close to you.

2. the other speed tests filter their test data in a way to look better. I.e. excluding the lowest x percent, excluding intermittent dropouts etc.

 

4Gbps is very fast. Wow

[maximehinnekens]

5 minutes ago, Pgoodwin1 said:

Two probable reasons for the difference.

1. your other speed test servers were very close to you.

2. the other speed tests filter their test data in a way to look better. I.e. excluding the lowest x percent, excluding intermittent dropouts etc.

 

4Gbps is very fast. Wow

Hi,

 

Yes I have read this in the FAQ. However, this does not explain the speeds i get when downloading from high-speed hosters/servers is around 5000 mbps (probably the disk writing is the bottleneck in those cases). Would downloading from a  multi-connections usenet backbone without writing to disk be a good way to rule out the possible bottleneck of the speedtest server in the test? Or can someone verify what the uplink max is on the speedtest servers used by testmy?

 

Idk why, but I trust my ISP somehow that they aren't lying.

 

Thanks

[Pgoodwin1]

I’ll let CA3LE (the site creator) chime in on this.

[CA3LE]

2 hours ago, Pgoodwin1 said:

I’ll let CA3LE (the site creator) chime in on this.

 

 Wouldn't it be funny if I just left it at that.

 

8 hours ago, maximehinnekens said:

Here’s my fastest cross-Atlantic run: 4300 Mbps

 

Be happy.  

 

You're seeing basically the highest speeds I've ever seen.  It's very difficult to score that high, you need to have a lot stars align properly.  lol

 

4 hours ago, maximehinnekens said:

However, this does not explain the speeds i get when downloading from high-speed hosters/servers is around 5000 mbps (probably the disk writing is the bottleneck in those cases).

 

There are a lot of variables.  You could be limited by some connection along the route.  But yes, if those downloads are being written to disk then that's another possible bottleneck.  They may be stored in RAM initially but eventually the write speed from RAM to disk will catch up and become a bottleneck.

 

If I was in your situation I would be making the test harder on myself.  I would purposely select test servers further away to test that connection at longer distance... give your ISPs peering abilities a test.

 

I see you're already using the beta, the multithread upload test on there is great for that connection.  I'd be interested to see how you perform on the linear test (multithread off). .... never mind, I found some results.

 

TestMy.net Test ID : 8KPSMBtk9.tWbFD7hX1

 

Wow!  And that was just 100 MB tests.  You have an amazing connection.

 

We're always heading into the future.