Quote Originally Posted by Byte Stryke View Post
you totally do not get how it works.
speed has nothing to do with volume.

you can have a .1 ms ping time, this has no bearing on the volume you have accessible to you. As Demonstrated by my 2 scores from above.



distance to the server and ping have nothing to do with the amount of data that can be transferred to or from any particular location.

things that affect this are:

Router Hops
Router traffic
Router capabilities
Server traffic
Server capabilities
I understand the difference between bandwidth and latency. I don't see what you're trying to prove here, spouting off a bunch of routing metrics.

LOL @ Server capabilities. What does that even mean? If you're referring to server resources, I think you'd be hard up to find a server that's network traffic is going to actually peg the CPU or start an unacceptable amount of memory paging. Unless of course that traffic is spawning database queries or other intensive processes, which isn't the case with a speed test.


And you're totally nuts if you think latency doesn't affect your transfer rate or "throughput". It doesn't however have anything to do with bandwidth, which a speed test doesn't measure.