Best Way to Measure Internet Speeds?

[TarunSingh]

Hi, I am on Excitel Fiber 300 Mbps plan. I sensed I was getting low speeds when a full HD Youtube video started buffering on 2.4G signal.

I immediately checked the speeds on Speedtest.net website through LAN and the download speed was less than 100 Mbps.

Now the problem is that while the Speedtest website shows around 100 Mbps, Speedtest Mac app and chrome extension shows speeds above 250 Mbps. In real-life scenarios, I am also getting speeds which correspond to less than 100 Mbps.

NOTE: Upload speed show above 300 Mbps in all 3 ways.

So I want to know what to do in this scenario? Can anyone confirm whether they get the same speeds on all 3 ways or different speeds?

 

[powerwatts]

Nothing much you can do I would imagine.

Tried Internet Speed Test too?

 

[TarunSingh]

Fast.com shows around 200 Mbps. But isn't Netflix peered to Excitel?

 

[JB701]

You should try some test files to various locations

http://speedtest-blr1.digitalocean.com/5gb.test

http://speedtest-sgp1.digitalocean.com/5gb.test

http://speedtest-sfo1.digitalocean.com/5gb.test

https://sgp-ping.vultr.com/vultr.com.1000MB.bin

https://mirror.leaseweb.com/speedtest/1000mb.bin

Especially on international servers, you pretty much need to use a multi connection Downloader like IDM or JDownloader to get full speeds.

Excitel is very well known to oversell transit bandwidth but they have very good peering bandwidth as it's cheap. So you will get good speeds on fast.com as Netflix is peered at Extreme IX.

I heard that they have improved international speeds significantly now but you'll have to try out yourself as speeds vary vastly depending on the ISP router you are connected to.

 

[Dark_Nate]

This will help you understand better.

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