Accuracy of Verizon Speed Test

I am wondering about the accuracy of the Verizon speed test. I have the 75/35 service and I am testing today around 10/15 on several test sites...except Verizon. The Verizon site, in the past and today, ALWAYS tells me the speed is what it is supposed to be. I find this very strange.
I typically use speedtest.net and have logged results from 75/35 to what I have today.

If you really want to know your true day to day speeds sign up for www.samknows.com I'm subscribed to SamKnows that is a free resource for consumers and volunteers. Their goal is to embed software suite into internet enabled devices to build the most accurate picture of global broadband performance. I am a participant & I get a report card that measures my speed etc....
They are contract by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to research and collect data on American fixed-line broadband speeds delivered by Internet Service Providers (ISP's) - until now, something that has never been undertaken in the USA.
99.9999999% of the time get faster upload & download speeds... I had Optimum before & they don't even come close to the performance or reliability.....

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FIOS 150/150 but only showing 95/95 on Verizon Speed Test

Some context - have been on the 150 plan for about 6 months since dumping TV and Phone Service. I originally had the Quantum gateway router but was dissatisfied with the wireless coverage.Purchased a Netgear R7000 about 5 months ago and used it as an Access Point with the Quantum Gateway as the Router. Getting 150 up and down no problem.Switched out the Quantum router and used the Netgear R7000 as my only router and access point about 4 months ago. Was still getting 150 up and down. Returned the Quantum gateway to Verizon. At the beginning of this week, started upgrading some of the family PCs to Windows 10. After upgrade, realised that the Internet was slow. Measured using Verizon Speed Test, all of the PCs were showing 95/95 consistently. Tried it with my Macbook pro and was the same so not a Windows 10 issue. Rebooted router, no difference. Reset router to factory settings - no difference. Updated router firmware - no difference. Got in touch with Verizon support - they tested the connection, reset it and confirmed that I am still provisioned for 150/150.. Ordered a new Quantum Gateway to check that there is not a router issue (dubious on this) and will try it when it arrives. Has anyone had a similar experience or can anyone offer advice on troubleshooting this?

This is just a shot in the dark but when you were running the speed test(s) on your Mac, did you have any Windows 10 machines shut down? If not, and if you haven't disabled Windows 10's default bandwidth sharing setting, you might be experiencing bandwidth usage as explained in this article: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2955288/microsoft-windows/windows-10-commandeers-users-upload-bandwidth.html

Verizon Speed Test

I have tried running the Verizon speed test on both Chrome and Firefox both become non responsive. I have no idea what code Verizon runs but it sure plays havoc on the browsers. Both ask permission to run JAVA which I approve, but still locks up.
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Sounds like Java being Java to me. Always loving to break itself or something else.
Just re-install Java, after of course checking your Firewalls. Verizon's speed test operates on the Web100/NDT testing system which is pretty robust.
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Verizon Speed Test Working?

Just curious about this, since there are obviously other methods available to achieve the desired result. No matter how often or hard I try, I cannot get this test to run, either in a limited account or an admin account. It always asks to install Java 6/21, when I already have the latest Java 6/32 installed. It just sits and percolates. Folks, does this thing work?
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Yeah.. The other "gotcha" along with admin mode was 64bit won't fly. I should've mentioned it. WTG....

From Comcast to FIOS with speed test documentary

Below is a link to a Youtube video made by me recently. It is a documentary of switching from Comcast to Verizon FIOS in the month of August 2011. It included installation details and speed tests.
Comcast speed test was done on a 25 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up.
FIOS speed test was done on a 35 Mbps down and 35 Mbps up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifYTD2i0pyw

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Difference between Transceiver Statistics vs. Speed tests

We had been having problems with our DSL speed today. We discovered (obviously) that most of the problem was that my son was watching Netflix on our TV (through an app directly on the tv, not through a game console), which was sucking up most of our bandwidth.
But, while testing things out, we checked our Transceiver Statistics. We are getting about 3300 mbps download, but after running two different speed tests (speedtest.net and bandwidthplace.net), it seems we only ever really get about 1.5 - 1.6 mbps. This was after turning off the Netflix stream, by the way. This is basically our normal speed.
At any one time, we have 2 laptops and 2 Android phones connected to our network through a Beklin wireless router, as well as a desktop connected to the Belkin router through an ethernet cable. The tests have been consisten regardless of the number of computers running at the time, as long as they aren't doing anything with a real network load.
I don't think it's a problem with the router, because we can copy files between the computers at about 4 megabytes per second (36 megabits per second). Althought the WiFi connection says it's running at about 130 megabits per second. Maybe that's an issue with disk speed, I don't know...
Anyway, is there anything weird going on, or is it a symptom of outside network load that our speed tests are roughly half the value we see on the Transceiver Statistics for the modem?
Here is the full details from our Westell modem Transciver Statistics:
Transceiver Revision: 7.1.254
Vendor ID Code:        4
Line Mode:               G.DMT-Mode
Data Path:               Interleaved
Transceiver Information
Down Stream Path
Up Stream Path
DSL Speed (Kbits/Sec)
3328
512
Margin (db)
7.0
12.0
Line Attenuation (db)
42.0
18.5
Transmit Power (db/Hz)
14.0
11.0
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The transceiver stats only measure the speed of the connection between your DSL Modem/Router and the Central Office Equipment. You can get the full 3mbs downlink speed with losses a lot higher than 42db   I have seen it above 60db and still providing 3mbps.
However the link between your modem and the Central office is only small part of the total path between your computer and whatever internet site you are connecting too. Speed tests measure end to end, as opposed to only a small part of the message path. As a result speed tests almost always show lower performance than transceiver stats.
The best analogy is Verizon effectively only provides the on and off ramps to the Internet Superhighway. Just because the local ramp is clear is no assurance there aren't traffic jams elsewhere on the highway. The problem with most speed tests is you have no idea how your traffic was actually routed, and what constraints may be placed on it by parts of the network that Verizon has no control over.
The transceiver stats represent the best possible case. The reality is there is no shortage of issues upstream from the central office, either on, or off the Verizon network that can restrict your actual speed to considerably less than 3mbps. It is unlikely that your wiring inside the house is an issue, if it was, you would be seeing a downlink speed at less than 3mbps.
However your uplink speed seems slow. The nominal uplink for the 3mbps tier of DSL service is 768kbps, not 512kbps.

High latency and poor speed tests lately

For the past 4-5 days, I've been working with various Verizon techs to resolve a high latency/slow Internet problem. Their ultimate solution was that they have no idea why it's doing this, and since I can reach a few websites at full speed and their line tests show I'm operating at full provisioning, it's not their problem. "We can't control traffic outside of our networks." Well, my results are also showing problems with the Verizon servers, so I would think they should be more concerned. Most websites, however, exhibit the problem. So I'm stuck, looking for a better answer than "go away." Maybe some of you are experiencing a similar problem with latency or sporadic speeds?
My provisioning is 20M/5M. I'm in the L.A. area. (In the traceroutes below, I masked Hop 2 for privacy.)
I've experienced this problem with 2 computers (1 desktop, 1 laptop), both using Ethernet ports; one test using wireless on the laptop. I've plugged the router directly into the ONT coax to eliminate my house wiring as the culprit. Westell 9100EM router.
A few websites seem okay, and speedtest.net results always show provisioning at full speed to the L.A. server, but the problem persists when using the non-L.A. server. With speakeasy.net, even the L.A. server exhibits the problem. The latency gets worse as the night goes on, sometimes over 1000ms for some traceroute hops. In the morning, it seems to be back to normal.
Thanks for any help....
Jeff
Some examples...
In the past 2 mornings, I've had good results:
Speed Test (speakeasy.net, Los Angeles): ~ 19798K/4581K
Speed Test (speedtest.net, Los Angeles): always shows full provisioning ~19.74M, 4.56M, 19ms ping
Speed Test (speedtest.net, Dallas): ~ 19.81M/4.37M, 49ms ping
Tracing route to www.l.google.com [74.125.19.104]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms myrouter.home [192.168.1.1]
2     8 ms     7 ms     7 ms xxxx.xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx.verizon-gni.net [173.55.xxx.xxx]
3     8 ms    10 ms     9 ms G4-0-6-1142.LSANCA-LCR-11.verizon-gni.net [130.81.140.122]
4    11 ms    53 ms    11 ms so-4-3-0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.29.244]
5    13 ms    12 ms    12 ms 0.so-1-2-0.XL3.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.133]
6    12 ms    11 ms    13 ms 0.ge-7-0-0.BR2.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.116.157]
7     9 ms    12 ms    42 ms xe-11-0-0.edge1.SanJose3.level3.net [4.68.111.249]
8    14 ms    12 ms    17 ms ae-63-60.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.144.52]
9    21 ms    34 ms    35 ms ae-2.ebr3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.132.9]
10    26 ms    19 ms    19 ms ae-83-83.csw3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.134.234]
11    21 ms    22 ms    22 ms ae-3-89.edge1.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.68.18.142]
12    23 ms    22 ms    23 ms GOOGLE-INC.edge1.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.79.43.146]
13    29 ms    34 ms    22 ms 209.85.251.98
14    20 ms    23 ms    19 ms nuq04s01-in-f104.1e100.net [74.125.19.104]
In the past 4-5 evenings, I've had poor results:
Speed Test (speakeasy.net, Los Angeles): ~ 2441K/194K
Speed Test (speedtest.net, Los Angeles): always shows full provisioning ~19.74M, 4.56M, 19ms ping
Speed Test (speedtest.net, Dallas): ~ 8.28M/1.22M, 49ms ping
Tracing route to www.l.google.com [74.125.19.105]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms myrouter.home [192.168.1.1]
2     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms xxxx.xxxxx-xxxxx-xxx.verizon-gni.net [173.55.xxx.xxx]
3   531 ms   502 ms   514 ms G4-0-6-1242.LSANCA-LCR-12.verizon-gni.net [130.81.140.162]
4   519 ms   506 ms   530 ms so-4-3-0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.29.246]
5   563 ms   564 ms   553 ms 0.so-1-2-0.XL4.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.125]
6   577 ms   544 ms   524 ms 0.ge-6-1-0.BR2.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.116.153]
7   477 ms   469 ms   459 ms xe-10-1-0.edge1.LosAngeles9.Level3.net [4.68.63.129]
8    11 ms    17 ms    19 ms ae-93-90.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.144.244]
9   515 ms   559 ms   536 ms ae-2.ebr3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.132.9]
10    20 ms    19 ms    19 ms ae-83-83.csw3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.134.234]
11   524 ms   499 ms   544 ms ae-3-89.edge1.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.68.18.142]
12   490 ms   479 ms   464 ms GOOGLE-INC.edge1.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.79.43.146]
13    24 ms    22 ms    32 ms 209.85.251.98
14    23 ms    22 ms   489 ms nuq04s01-in-f105.1e100.net [74.125.19.105]
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MisterJefferson, your problem looks to be with hop #3. That is a Verizon router just after the gateway router for you. This will need to be addressed by a Verizon Network technician. Your hops to your router and your hop to the gateway look fine. Verizon will need to reboot that second router or re-route your hops.
Chernabog, yours is more difficult, you dont have any obvious big issue. However you do have a moderate jump at hop number 8. this is off the verizon network and is out on the internet. on one of the ATT routers. Unlikely you are going to be able to do anything about this. And as it is off the Verizon network, there would be nothing verizon could do about it either. Usually though, if it is a router needing rebooting, it will generally self correct after a few days. Or you could be unlucky enough to be going through a system that is overloaded or just plain old. This can be frustraiting. I myself play a lot of online games and if the server is in Washington DC (I'm in California) one of the hops I have to go through is in kentucky with sprintlink and their routers constantly give me a 500ms ping and I havent been able to get it corrected in over 4 years. Something we sometimes have to live with when it is out of our control.
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Why difference between DSL speed tests?

I have the basic High Speed DSL account that Verizon is representing as being capable of .5 - 1 mbps. But I've never gotten anything more than 120 kbps download and 35 kbps upload speeds in 'real world' file transfer tests.
However all the online speed test websites I've used, as well as the one the Verizon repair technician used when he came out here, return results from 750 kbps - 1 Mbps down, and 275 kbps - 400 kbps up.
I've done my own download speed tests on 3 different PCs via FTP, Bittorrent, and HTTP protocals, and none ever get more than 120 kbps down. Firewalls can limit transfer rates, but I've shut them all down, and still only get a max of 120 knps down.
Can anyone explain why there's such a disparity between the speed test results from all these various Inet speed test websites, and my actual real world transfer rates?
Thx
ritz

As an FYI, we used to use a factor of 10 going from bytes to bits rather than a factor of 8. Start bits, stop bits, parity, etc. I suppose it means less with large frames, but there is still some overhead.

Off Topic-Becoming a Verizon Network Tester

I know this is way off topic, but I wasn't sure where else to post this. How does one apply for a job to become a Verizon Network Tester in their area? I'm constantly running real world tests from my phone around my area, contantly testing voice calls, texting, data, running speed/network tests, etc., and anytime I spot the slightest issue, I immediately report it. I'd be a valuable testing asset to the Verizon team if I'd be able to join.
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I have been using the sefived below for testing my connection speed:
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I have been off-line for a while and it now seems to need a login.
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Yes m8, the crafty site now demands an account being set up, in other words you have to pay. It was good though for accuracy, shame!.
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BT Speed Test

Hello All,
I got BT Infinity upto 80mb installed last Friday (went great, was told could only get 56mb, but i can download at 76mb)
when I goto http://www.speedtester.bt.com/ i am not able to run the speed test (the ADSL & Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) Diagnostics)
I enter my phone number, and it starts the test
It runs Test 1 and gets stuck on the "Upstream speed for:Test 1, at 100%"
it will just sit their for a age, then come up with site is busy.
any ideas?
Andrew
EDIT:
this is what comes on the screen
The system is currently busy. Please try again shortly, however if this problem persists, raise the issue with your service provider

Details from speedtest
download -59.26
upload - 11.04
ping 40
for real world downloading, i am getting upto 75mb, which i cant even tell you how good that is, i was on a 1mb to 1.5mb download
Andrew

The Delete Speed Test for Pages 2

Hello Pages fans,
“Speed” is a subjective term, so I wonder what people will find if they do this test:
Paste a phrase such as “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’s back. ” ten times to make a dummy paragraph. Put the cursor at the end of the paragraph and press and hold the delete key and count the seconds it takes to delete back through the the entire paragraph, letter by letter. (This will depend on the key repeat rate you set in System Preferences.)
If I delete a particular paragraph this way using Pages 2, when viewing the document in narrow format (i.e. viewing “fit page”) it takes about 22 seconds. If I view “fit width” and stretch the width across my 23-inch cinema display the same task takes about 101 seconds.
Using Pages 1 it takes about 22 seconds (“fit page”) or about 27 seconds (“fit width”). Not as bad.
I have tried every single fix proposed in this discussion forum to speed up Pages - to no avail. I am using a Mac Mini 1.42 GHz with 1GB RAM, a 23-inch display, 10.4.5 and the very latest updates. I have no other problems whatsoever in any other applications.
Incidentally, In Word 2004 the same exact test takes about 17 seconds no matter what (whether viewed at 10%, 500% or anything in between).
Trust me- I don’t actually sit around deleting paragraphs like this all day, but I do notice a very annoying typing lag. I’ve basically given up on Pages as a serious writing tool because of this typing lag / speed issue and gone back to Word. Pages 1 works fine and served my purposes for a year, but what future does the Pages application have if version 2 performs so poorly?
Do those who report having blazing fast Pages 2 performance experience this problem with this test?
Yes, this is a dreadfully boring test! But at least it’s not subjective and it’s not as iffy as watching the system monitor percentages jumping around.
Thanks in advance for any responses.
various macs... Mac OS X (10.4.4)

True, MMINSO, I can just go use some other word processor. (Thanks for the tip.) I'm sorry to laugh at your suggestion but you entirely missed the point of my keyboard input test when you told me to just delete the whole paragraph at once.
Ee gads... we could start a flame war over this! Can anyone think of a better, more reliable speed test to measure how Pages handles keyboard input?
When I type text while viewing a document at full width across my screen, the typing is much slower than when I view the document tiny size. The typing lags. By "lags" I mean that the keyboard input is behind what I am typing. I devised a mind-numbingly simple little keyboard input test to replicate this problem perfectly. Again: This test directly replicates the type of keyboard input slowdown problem I encounter while doing normal typing. So it's certainly relevant, and it's also measurable and replicable.
Naturally, it's not the actual number of seconds that counts, it's whether any given keyboard input task slows down when we do it viewing at different widths. The keyboard input rate changes, you see.
I had hoped that someone would verify whether they experience the same lag in typing under the same conditions. In other postings, others have simply described the problem as "infuriating" and dropped Pages entirely. I don't think that's very useful. I was trying to be a bit more scientific about it in the hopes that it might actually be helpful.
Maybe there's a better way to accurately demonstrate keyboard input lags in Pages?
Maybe my machine is the only one experiencing any slowness.

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Slow Speed Tests

Hay everyone I have an AirPort extreeme located in my front room about 15 feet from my bedroom. In the bedroom I have an iMac 27" mid-2011 model. I have been running speed tests from speedtest.net and have been getting very slow download rates, any where betwee 1.4 and 5.0 mbps. I pay for a 25 mbps speed. I have full signal strength everywhere in the house the speed is just terrible. Does anyone know how I can increses the speed of that computer. I have changed the channel to one that is not used as much in my area, as I looked at iStumbler. Also if I sit in the room next to the router I get 10 - 15 mbps. Any help would be amazing. Thanks.
PS I also have an AirPort express set to extend the network in the bedroom where I am having the slow speed.

I'm not able to provide a solution though I too find that the AE is not as fast as it is supposed to be. At one time I had a Belkin Wireless and an ADSL connection that topped out at 1.5MB/sec. Now I have a 50MB/sec internet connection and honestly, I have seen an increase in my speed over wireless but the Belkin really seemed quite zippy! I play World of Warcraft and I remember someone saying to me that AE or our Macs have Firewalls set-up that we don't know about or "something" that limits the speeds of the connections - which PCs and non-Apple products do not. Constantly see when downloading new patches from WOW, messages that I am behind a firewall - when I do not have firewall set on the AE nor on my Mac...

Standard local network speed test?

I recently setup up a dual-band (dedicated n, dedicated g) wireless network, and I think I am having some issues with throughput (qualitative observation). So I started trying to find a good metric for performance of the wireless systems. Note, I am talking here about the local wireless (Airport devices between home computers), not the connected internet speed (cable, DSL, fiber).
I see a lot of people copying files and timing the transfer. Is this the best there is? From what I've read, ping isn't such a good metric for network throughput. You can watch the kb/s transfer report on copy, but that isn't exactly stable or indicative of general performance. Any other tools, programs, methods, etc.? Or should I just be timing file transfers?
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Yes, I know how to handle and suppress errors in LabView. I was mainly looking for a good example on a network speed test.
The test we have uses was written by one of our software guys, it uses two computers in a client-server arrangement and stops and displays an error message when the client computer loses connection to the server. Regardless of the reasoning I have given the programmer refuses to change it because he wrote the test for him and that's how he wants it.
I want a program that can use one computer with two network cards.
It will send a data stream out one NIC, through the UUT, and back in the other NIC.
Where it Will be checked for errors and dropped packets, and sent back through the UUT.
A continuous throughput speed measurment will also be logged along with errors, dropped packets, and retries.
I have never used any of the LV networking, tcp, etc VI's and was hoping someone had done this before because I do not have time to start from scratch.

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