I have been testing my residential ISP/DSL-Landline connections and wanted to make sure that I was getting what I am paying for. Supposedly, one can use the various website based "speed test" tools to determine their upload and download speeds. Are these "speed test" tools credible and can they be trusted? Of the several sites I have tried, they all more or less seemed to be in close agreement with one another in terms of the bandwidth speeds, i.e. my connection speed is quoted at 768KB/s up and 3MB/s down, and the farther away from central, the more reduced is the speeds are. The average speed tools says that I have measured speeds of 720-30 KB/s up and 2.0-5MB/s down. Why is it however, that when downloading software from the various Linux/M$ and other downloads sites I am seeing on average, speeds of 200-320(max) KB/s and never see anything much faster than that? Is this normal? Has anyone gotten download speeds any faster that what I have reported? What I am trying to determine is if my ISP only shows un-throttled speeds between me & them, but then somehow throttles my bandwidth usage when I am using the Internet, or is it more probable that download speeds are being throttled from the download site itself? Other than by using `speed testers', I have yet to find a download site that pushes out more than 2-300KB/s? I have tried HTTP, FTP & Bittorent and there is very little or no speed improvements as far as I can tell. Just wondering, Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
