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Article #931Re: NextG Mobile Speeds
From: Mike Rofone
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:01
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:01
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Rod Speed wrote... > > Now, if Speedtest isn't the authoritative site for this sort of thing, which one would be? > > Timing a download from the ISP's server as long as that server is implemented properly. In this case it's Telstra. Or is it Bigpond, perhaps? > The modem stats are also a much better measure too, but not always available with all hardware configs. When I conduct these tests on my ADSL2+ service via Speedtest or from the mirror servers that the ISP hosts, speeds can vary. The servers are 12km away and I can get up to 80 percent of the line sync speed. In my case, around 10 Megabits/sec download. The Speedtest is around 7 megs.
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