Are these results all based on a lan based connection or wifi based connection
Speedtest will connect to closest Indian server (you can change to a further server if you want) Fast.com will connect to your closest Netflix server (these are highly optimised)
As long as you are getting more than your plan why worry
I’m also getting a speed higher than my plan on the cloudflare test lol.
OP, on speedtest.net, try a singapore or EU server - by default it will test with a local server and won’t be indicative of the speed you actually experience.
Singapore server
Default server, Airtel Delhi -
For fast.com, ISPs specifically tune network settings to get better speeds for Netflix and other streaming apps, so again, it’s not indicative of the overall speed you would get in general use.
I don’t think any ISP can guarantee speeds to all sites. What they mean when they advertise speeds is to most general websites/large websites or sites they have peering agreements with like Netflix, Hotstar etc.
Download a torrent with enough seeds to get a good idea of what speeds you can expect if the server/bandwidth isn’t a bottleneck.
This is so wrong. With torrents you’re dependent on the speed of the peer/uploader and the routing.
Although you’re right that the speed advertised by the ISP is the maximum possible speed they will deliver on your connection but the only way to test that is by minimizing your distance from the server you’re downloading from (in control) and maximizing the internet bandwidth on the server (not in your control). This basically means choose the nearest server on the speedtest app which is NOT from your ISP.
) about how fast.com works. I think they mimic realistic conditions quite well - with different number of parallel connections, ignoring ramp-up & processing time. Most seem to measure off of just one server (hearsay), which is not quite realistic. In my experience, fast has given the closest-to-what-I-experience result; whereas ookla’s is more like if/when my network peaks.
I live in Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu. For me Ookla connects (by default) to one server about 50km away from me; the speed.cloudfare does one to Mumbai, I guess about 2000km away; fast connects to 3 servers - Madurai (200km), Chennai (700km) & Bengaluru (600km). From what they say, this number of servers connected to differs with location; I guess depending on how many servers are available close-by.