speedtest.net 'connection grade'

Curious to see what speeds make which grades.

http://speedtest.net/result/1831045480.png

6.77Mb/s

National 32% (D)

Global 43% (C-)

Be interesting to see others' speeds and grades, especially the sub 4 Meg folk. 90% coverage and all that.

http://speedtest.net/result/1761067862.png

38.24 Mb/s

National - 94% (A)

Global - 92% (A)

http://speedtest.net/result/1830963813.png

66.92Mbps

National 92% (A)

Global 91% (A)


eta- some interesting discrepancies between my results and Griff's

eta Mk 2... could be due to the ping times? If I let the tester choose its own server I can get sub 10ms pings, but the speeds are a lot slower (typically ~45Mbps).

Edited by billford (Tue 13-Mar-12 13:13:04)

In reply to a post by camieabz:

Curious to see what speeds make which grades.

Ok, I'm sync'd at 16824kbps today.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1831180755.png

Grade B faster than 65% of GB.

Where do you get the National/Global numbers from?

After the test completes, it should be on the right of the screen.

Here's a couple of results as I'm one of the sub 4Meg folk

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1831245339.png

Tried another server, there's too many to choose from

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1831248099.png

Edit,
Tried the ping test site,

http://www.pingtest.net/result/58847652.png

and

http://www.pingtest.net/result/58847963.png

Edited by Apprentice (Tue 13-Mar-12 14:44:51)

In reply to a post by griff_90:

http://speedtest.net/result/1761067862.png

38.24 Mb/s

National - 94% (A)

Global - 92% (A)

I am running at around 37.5 Mbps and get:

National B+ (79%)

Global A- (82%)

Although yesterday my National was A- (81%) ...

pulling up my best result: http://speedtest.net/result/1259982928.png

40.18 Mbps is A- (80%)

In reply to a post by camieabz:

Curious to see what speeds make which grades.

If you click on the question mark to the right of the "CONNECTION GRADE" heading, you get:

Based on the currently displayed results, connection grades show how you stack up with others in your country and around the world. For example if your value is 77% (giving you a B+) then only 23% of connections are faster than yours. The scale is:

A = 80-100%
B = 60-79%
C = 40-59%
D = 20-39%
F = 0-19%

Plus/minus grades are given for the top/bottom 5% of each grade.

No indication whether ping times have any bearing on the grade.

In reply to a post by camieabz:

After the test completes, it should be on the right of the screen.

Ahh, only when you click "Compare your result"

National Grade C (51%)
Global Grade B- (60%)

I saw that, but was curious to see what sort of speeds were falling into which grades. 0-19% (F) is what? 2 Meg? 0.5 Meg?