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    Thank you, please close this and the below ticket I opened.

  • Are Internet problems in your local network or with your Internet provider? Don’t waste countless hours, let ISP Tracker help! Shows issues with your Internet connection and neighborhood. Gives you hard FACTS on what’s REALLY happening, reported or not.

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    Hi, Can you start a new post next time please so that we can help. When different topics are mixed into one post, it's harder for us to keep track to help. Commercial speed testing is something most people don't usually fully understand. When you use those commercial speed test services, they are highly optimized and on the edge of the ISP network, called CDN's (Content delivery networks). You'll almost always get the very best speeds possible when using those. Those are only useful when you have severe speed issues and they can help confirm. They are also highly optimized because they are using your browser. Browse based tests will always be faster than real world testing. Our test is more 'real world' in that it measures from source (your location) to destination (one of our locations) over the Internet rather than to an optimized local network. Our tests do not use browsers but raw TCP so the speed will always seem lower but it's the actual speed reached from one point to another over the Internet. When you connect to anything over the Internet, you're going over many networks that may or may not limit throughput. Almost all networks will never allow you to use all of their bandwidth so have some sort of limiting controls that automatically slowly throttle speeds down so that there is plenty of bandwidth for others as well. This is something you'll usually never notice when using a browser but it's very noticeable when you're downloading large files for example. It's just how the Internet works, it's shared. Hope this helps.