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?

What's your upload speed though?

It takes that into account as well as your download speed.

Ah, I see...

What you really need is the database of all their speedtests to plot the distribution and locate the percentiles... getting hold of that might be tricky

Quite easy to get some of it!

http://www.netindex.com/source-data/


Can get the full raw data set (anonymised) if you ask nicely!

Links to that have been given before, but I'd forgotten all about them

Cheers, but I'll leave it to Camie, it's not my thing

Grade A

Sync speed 29822k

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1831592811.png

I'm fast coming to the conclusion that it's not worth trying. Gradings are all over the place.

Download 2.15 Mb/s
Upload 0.35 Mb/s
Ping 47 ms
Connection grade D

Sync 6944
Enta IPSC Birmingham Node
SWPM exchange

Roll on next week when I leave BT's IPSC behind me.

Upstream and latency must have something to do with it, but the algorithm is far from obvious to me. Couple of quite different results here:

Good downstream, average upstream, bad ping = B minus

Down 9.8 Mbps
Up 1.2 Mbps
Ping 74ms
Grade B-
Faster than 61% of the UK

http://speedtest.net/result/1576116594.png

Poor downstream, good upstream, still poor ping time = C minus
Physically different kit

Down 5.4 Mbps
Up 2.0 Mbps
Ping 65ms
Grade C+
Faster than 56% of the UK

http://speedtest.net/result/1644637263.png

That second one says C plus now.

I could swear blind it said C minus two minutes ago.

I think the grades do change over time, so they would appear to be relative not absolute.

Post deleted by Daniel_g

Found the graph of the last log of tests with the gradings but earlier dropped the wifi card to wireless g standard to prove a point of doing a slower speedtest on that so screwed up the results.

did a few of 2 servers, Maidstone custonian centre being the full wack 37. something.

Explanation why I deleted!.

Edited by deleted (Tue 13-Mar-12 21:14:57)