Comments on: Bandwidth speed test comparing DSL, Palm Treo 700p Sprint EVDO over USB and Bluetooth on a G4 Powerbook running OS X Tiger 10.4.7

By: cristina aquinta

cristina aquinta — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:37:11 +0000

hi, cool web site and good articles.
The The first step is to learn how to find out what your Internet speed is.The Internet speed is determined by 2 components: the download rate and the upload rate of data which are usually measured in Kilobits per second.
Then after you know the upload and download rate, you can use tools or tweaks to improve your internet speed, or take the decision to change your ISP.

By: Oli

Oli — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:40:56 +0000

Different Speed test tools give different results i guess. I use always this one:

Bandwidth Speed Test

In my case this is accurate.

By: Jun

Jun — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:28:18 +0000

Note that the speeds fluctuate a lot from moment to moment… so, for any accurate comparison, you need to do a LOT of repeated tests and average the results.

So far, my fastest times are actually with Bluetooth rather than with cable. However, that could easily be due to chance… I have definitely not done enough tests.

Nice pair of web pages on this great technique!

By: haw

haw — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:24:35 +0000

you mean to say that you have made this in flash professional 8

can you send me its source file so i can also learn from you !

plz
regards
haw chin yoi

By: Randy Sharp

Randy Sharp — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:16:41 +0000

I concur with the above tests.
I’ve run tests on both my Macbook Pro 17″ and my dual G5 using sprintpcs DUN, OS-X 10.4.9.
Average speed was 45kbps on mondospeed.com and 89kbps on speedTest.net.
I suspect it’s actually somewhere in-between depending on their packet size transfered.
I’ve pinged my own IP port with varying packet sizes to see the delays and packet loss; Loop count was only 50 on each set.

-s 1024 round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 830.896/1943.383/5049.928/936.855 ms
for an avg 52kbps transfer rate at 1024 bytes ea.

-s 2048 round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1127.729/2748.468/6209.484/1159.734 ms
for an avg 74kbps transfer rate at 2048 bytes ea.

-s 4096 round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1158.480/2010.545/3208.014/501.574 ms
for an avg 203kbps transfer rate at 4096 bytes ea.

-s 8096 round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1596.178/2480.570/3713.313/544.755 ms
for an avg 306kbps transfer rate at 8096 bytes ea.

MacOS-X likes greater than or equal to 4096 byte packet sizes.
Too bad we can’t adjust the driver accordingly.
These tests don’t reflect any latencies from other Internet sites.

Would be nice to get a faster speed out of the USB port with the Treo 700p since it’s speed should be faster than the BT connection.

By: Buzzardel

Buzzardel — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:03:30 +0000

Also SpeedTest.Net is made in Flash and is pretty cute, more accurate speed tests can be completed on MondoSpeed Worldwide Speed Test (http://www.mondospeed.com/).

You can choose from a list of more than 40 high speed servers spread all around the world.

This server keeps in history all tests results ever.

http://www.mondospeed.com/