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Abel Wingnut posted:i'm getting very different speeds from different speed tests. is there one that's more accurate than others? does the fact i get a lot of different speeds mean something? Speed tests are usually all fairly accurate, they just measure different things. If you get many different results from speed tests, expect to also get wide variance in the speeds you encounter in reality with different services. The internet is a mix of hundreds of thousands of different connections between machines with both the connections and the machines having different capabilities and different active workloads. Different speed tests also use rather different methodologies (JavaScript/Flash/native app, single VS multi-connection, IPv4 VS IPv6 and so forth). You should not expect uniform results except in controlled lab conditions (or a massively underloaded network). Your ISP and their upstream providers manage each leg of the connection from <yourhome> to <server> independently. Perhaps your neighborhood has a certain capacity, your neighborhood to your city center another and your city to the data center 100 miles away yet another capacity. Depending on what you connect to, your connection could pass through a fairly large number of interlinked connections that do not always have too much to do with where it look like data should flow on a map to take the shortest route. If you get different speeds, it is likely that some of the intermediate regional links between your ISP and the destination are overloaded (or at least, unevenly loaded) so that some connections have to pass through connections with low available capacity, while others travel a different route that is less congested. That's just how the internet works. In short, you probably live in an area with a congested regional network. Tough luck.
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