Download speed not reflecting results from Speedtest.net

[jtcantwell96]

Speed Test.net is showing my download speed at 462Mb/s. My actual download speed on both steam and battle.net both cap around 11.2MB/s. If I'm doing the math correctly 462Mb/s should come out to a download speed of about 57 MB/s. What is causing this and how do i fix it? I'm running windows 7 64 bit.

 

[USAFRet]

Speed Test.net is showing my download speed at 462Mb/s. My actual download speed on both steam and battle.net both cap around 11.2MB/s. If I'm doing the math correctly 462Mb/s should come out to a download speed of about 57 MB/s. What is causing this and how do i fix it? I'm running windows 7 64 bit.

What speed do you pay your ISP for?

 

[jtcantwell96]

Speed Test.net is showing my download speed at 462Mb/s. My actual download speed on both steam and battle.net both cap around 11.2MB/s. If I'm doing the math correctly 462Mb/s should come out to a download speed of about 57 MB/s. What is causing this and how do i fix it? I'm running windows 7 64 bit.

What speed do you pay your ISP for?

I pay for 1Gb

 

[USAFRet]

Speed Test.net is showing my download speed at 462Mb/s. My actual download speed on both steam and battle.net both cap around 11.2MB/s. If I'm doing the math correctly 462Mb/s should come out to a download speed of about 57 MB/s. What is causing this and how do i fix it? I'm running windows 7 64 bit.

What speed do you pay your ISP for?

I pay for 1Gb

Whoa...
Is this wired or WiFi?
For a 1Gb connection, you should get WAY more than "462Mb/s"

 

[jtcantwell96]

Speed Test.net is showing my download speed at 462Mb/s. My actual download speed on both steam and battle.net both cap around 11.2MB/s. If I'm doing the math correctly 462Mb/s should come out to a download speed of about 57 MB/s. What is causing this and how do i fix it? I'm running windows 7 64 bit.

What speed do you pay your ISP for?

I pay for 1Gb

Whoa...
Is this wired or WiFi?
For a 1Gb connection, you should get WAY more than "462Mb/s"

This is wired directly from the modem. They upgraded it today. It is a relatively large house however with quite a few people in it. Lot of wifi going around. Figured thats why it only showed 462. More annoyed now that my PC won't even reflect the 462. Makes no sense to me.

 

[USAFRet]

Speed Test.net is showing my download speed at 462Mb/s. My actual download speed on both steam and battle.net both cap around 11.2MB/s. If I'm doing the math correctly 462Mb/s should come out to a download speed of about 57 MB/s. What is causing this and how do i fix it? I'm running windows 7 64 bit.

What speed do you pay your ISP for?

I pay for 1Gb

Whoa...
Is this wired or WiFi?
For a 1Gb connection, you should get WAY more than "462Mb/s"

This is wired directly from the modem. They upgraded it today. It is a relatively large house however with quite a few people in it. Lot of wifi going around. Figured thats why it only showed 462. More annoyed now that my PC won't even reflect the 462. Makes no sense to me.

If just upgraded 'today', give it a day or two.
Test (if you can), with only the one wired system doing anything.

But you should be getting way more than 462mbps.

 

[jr9]

If you are paying for a 1 Gigabit line, I would try running the speedtest on a different server first to make sure that the 460Mbps reading is correct. Could be the server.

After that I'd running a speedtest on my phone and noting the result. If it's higher on the same speedtest server that narrows it down to the PC.

After that, I'd boot everyone off the network for 5 mins and run a speedtest again. If still slow speeds without people hogging the bandwidth, and if the network was installed by the ISP, I'd give them a call.

 

[jtcantwell96]

I changed the speedtest.net server to one that is equally as far away as the first one i tried and it actually went down to about 100Mb/s. I have no idea what's up with this. I guess I will give it until Friday and see if it is still acting up like this.

 

[jr9]

In addition to the other 2 suggestions, try running the test later on at night. If you have cable it could be network congestion during peak times. Your internet speed SHOULD be a bit more reliable though. My first thought is that you have heavy bandwidth usage on your home network by someone.

 

[bill001g]

You have 2 different issues I suspect. The speedtest sites are designed to give the largest number possible. Download sites are designed to allow the most people as possible to get reasonable download rates. Speedtest download a rather small file so they can give you high speed for a short time. A game server many times is intentionally limited to prevent people like you with high speed internet connections from taking all the bandwidth. Its not like these download sites have unlimited bandwidth.

The 400mbps limit can be a number of things. This is one of the reason speedtest have the new beta version, the older one is limited by flash. It can also be your router. Most modern routers have a hardware assist feature that allow the NAT traffic to bypass the cpu chip. Using the CPU tends to limit the speed you can get, the exact number depends on how fast the cpu is. I would reset your router to factory settings and configure the very minimum possible. Make sure you do not have QoS or firewall feature turned on.

If possible try to take the router out of the path and plug directly into the modem. Most modems are really simplistic and do not tend to limit the speed of the traffic.

People with more average internet connections seldom see this problem but as we see more and more internet over 100mbps you start to see limitation both in the hardware and in the internet itself...ie artificial server limitations.