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Hello All

Apologies if this is a stupic question. I recently got myself a 1024 Kbps connection (WIMAX) from a Provider named Tata Indicom Broadband in Bangalore, India. I have since tried to perform many downloads and have never reached speeds greater than around 600 Kbps (around 75 KBps, that is).

I recently came across the auditmypc speed test and performed a test from http://www.auditmypc.com/internet-speed-test.asp and was surprised to see a result of 1515 Kbps download and 534 Kbps download. This is more than double of what other speed tests show.

Even Tata Indicom's own speedtest link at speedtest.vsnl.com/speed shows be a download speed of around 664 Kbps. So, I am left scratching my head now as to which speed test I should rely on as the accurate one.

I eve tried a normal download from microsoft and saw that I only hit around 650 Kbps.

Can someone help throw light on this discrepancy?

I feel that is the most accurate speed test on the internet today. If that test repeatedly tells you that your speed is 1515 Kbps download and 534 Kbps download, then that's likely what it really is.

By the way, I took that same test and it reported 195kbps when it should have reported 1324Kbps - I performed the same test on other sites (other than mine) and has similar results which indicate to me that the test you mention is inaccurate.

Best regards,

Jim.

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