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With these kind of tools you are testing the available bandwidth of With these kind of tools you are testing the available bandwidth of
the slowest connection between your device and the host. For example, the slowest connection between your device and the host. When your web
when your web server connection is slower than your own network, you server connection is slower than your own network, you are actually
are actually testing the server's bandwidth instead of your own. testing the server's bandwidth instead of your own.
There can be many causes for slow connections, like the type of wiring,
other devices, interference, packetloss or the peering between network
providers somewhere along the route.
For example, I tested this speedtest from my own server to my home
network both connected from Amsterdam and I got only 70 Mbit but using
my provider's speedtest I get double at least. Doing the same to my
LiquidSky box in Frankfurt I easily get over 900 Mbit. So there is a
bottleneck somewhere between the web server and my home ISP.
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