
Originally Posted by
cfortune
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.