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at dslreports.com and it listed me as having a 380kb/sec dl (i usually max out at 310) and an upload of 163kb/sec (but i never get past 60). is this because my isp is bottlenecking my upload speed like ive heard so many of them do? i use sbc, can i call them and tell them i need the extra upload bandwidth?
Are you aware of the difference between kB and kb? Did you run the test when none of your torrents were running?
no i ran it with utorrent running seeding at my max. isnt the difference between kB and kb exponential?
No. kB = 8kb.
The correct way to run speed tests is without anything seeding.
alright thanks. will run again
You would technically take the TOTAL figures you got for upload and download speeds and divide them by 8 as shadowfire mentioned.
DSLREPORTS isnt all that accurate a site anyways.
Ive tried my 100mbit and 1gig lines on there and they show me as avg cable lines. (600k incoming and 200k outgoing.)
When I know they go much faster cause I send 12,000k most of the time.
Isn't speedtest.net a more accurate one? I dunno, I just use that.
What ever the number you get at DSLReports divide it by 8 to get your actual upload/download speed in Kb
Here are some links that describe the difference.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bytes.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytes
And with dsl you always have to account for the overhead, which is normally ~15-20 % of the contracted speed.