Another Speed Test Result Question

I'm on Sky ADSL and consistently get the x6 results coming out significantly higher than the single thread result.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/14733...

Looking back at my speed test history the x6 result has consistently been double the single thread test.

I have a few o2 results from before the handover to Sky and the difference was still marked although the single thread was more like two thirds the x6 result.

What is this telling me (other than I should have possibly migrated away from Sky some time ago)?

If you are a Windows XP user then the RWIN value may need tweaking, or you have a limitation locally due to wireless connectivity

On an iMac with a wired connection. Can run again of a Win8 laptop on a wired connection if that helps at all.

OK on Mac OSX when using Safari the flash socket protocol had a rate limit issue (page should have warned on this affecting tbbx1). So should not show up on flash version on other operating systems.

Or can force the non flash via http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest

Used Chrome for the test.

Tried the test of the laptop (on FF though):

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/14733...

And straight afterwards on the iMac.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/14733...

Ran the non flash version on the iMac.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/14733...

So not much variation between the flash and non-flash versions, but a stark difference to running it on the Win8 laptop.

So looks like Mac is the issue rather than the broadband connection then

Agreed.

Although not sure what tweaks I can do if any.

I'm still intrigued about whether other Mac users see a similar difference between the single and multi thread performance.

Is there anything that can be done on the Mac OS to improve the single thread performance?

Edited by jaydub (Thu 03-Nov-16 20:04:21)

We run a mixture of Windows/Mac OS devices ourselves and are not aware of any widespread issue with single thread performance on our Macs across various connections at various speeds.

The flash version has a legacy issue with the flash socket code has a 12 Mbps limit due to Safari flash, Chrome version does not have the issue.

Definitely using Chrome on the iMac.

I'd love to understand what the difference is. The iMAC is always slow compared to the Win8 laptop and switching the AV off seems to make little difference.

I did get one test where the two results were similar this afternoon, but testing again just now the Win8 test on FF is much better than the iMac on Chrome result.

Hi Jaydub,

Personally, I have a pet dislike of Macs mainly due to how they price up their systems and how they like to do things their own way with no thought to how they may interact with others. I used to work with an e-commerce company that had a javascript based shopping basket solution and one of my biggest issues was that I would get a site working brilliantly on Windows but there would be all sorts of errors on Macs. We would then fix the Mac issues only for it to fall over on the PC. It was a never ending struggle. Personally, I think if you are going to use Macs then you have to live with the fact that you may NEVER get them to work exactly like a PC.

HTH,

Both on macs

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

Both on macs

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

Moving to fibre with Pulse8 on Tuesday, so will be interesting to see whether I see a marked difference.

I've had a play on my Win8 laptop and I get consistently better results with Firefox than I do with IE11, but both are better than the Mac.

Interesting, but no idea what, if anything, to read into it.

In reply to a post by jaydub:

I've had a play on my Win8 laptop and I get consistently better results with Firefox than I do with IE11, but both are better than the Mac.

Interesting, but no idea what, if anything, to read into it.

What browser are you using on your Mac?
TBH, I have never liked the Safari browser.

Paul

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

What browser are you using on your Mac?
TBH, I have never liked the Safari browser.

Paul

Me neither. I use Chrome mostly with Firefox as backup.

The TBB Speed Test warns you off using FF & Safari, so all the speed tests on the Mac have been done using Chrome.

In reply to a post by jaydub:

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

What browser are you using on your Mac?
TBH, I have never liked the Safari browser.

Paul

Me neither. I use Chrome mostly with Firefox as backup.

The TBB Speed Test warns you off using FF & Safari, so all the speed tests on the Mac have been done using Chrome.

Hmm, I think when I get back from the Hospital tomorrow I will pinch my sisters Mac Book Pro, granted it will be using Wi-Fi, but I will be sitting next to the Smart Hub, that's if I remember.

I will need to test it in the morning when we are not congested.

Paul

The warnings are only for the flash version on OSX

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

The warnings are only for the flash version on OSX

Understood. I ran the Flash version anyway on FF on the Mac, hence my comment.

Just wondered whether Safari defaults to the non-Flash version, whereas FF still seems to default to the Flash version but presents a warning (at least, when you are logged in)