Can Someone Explain This To Me Please?

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Graveboot

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First off, I hope I'm in the right spot on asking this question.

I run speedtests pretty frequently, just to check it, using speedtest.net. I'm just now noticing that if I'm getting slow speeds and I change where it "pings", I think is the term, that I might get a better speed from there. I tested my speeds out of a major city 30 miles away and got 5Mbps then tested from a major city 250 Miles away and got 60Mbps. How do you get a true reading on your internet speed?
 
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Speed is relative depending on where the information is you want to access is located.

If the web page you want to access is hosted in Seattle and your speedtest.net to Seattle is only 40 megabits, then for all intensive purposes your download speed for that site will be roughly 40 megabits.

If you pay for an 80 megabit connection then you have 40 more megabits to download something else with.

Finding pockets of slow and fast on the internet isn't anything to be concerned with.

It's possible the close city is having technical difficulties while the city 250 miles away is working just fine.

The internet reroutes your packets around the close city that is having problems to a faster more reliable path to the 250 miles away city.

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Speed is relative depending on where the information is you want to access is located.

If the web page you want to access is hosted in Seattle and your speedtest.net to Seattle is only 40 megabits, then for all intensive purposes your download speed for that site will be roughly 40 megabits.

If you pay for an 80 megabit connection then you have 40 more megabits to download something else with.

Finding pockets of slow and fast on the internet isn't anything to be concerned with.

It's possible the close city is having technical difficulties while the city 250 miles away is working just fine.

The internet reroutes your packets around the close city that is having problems to a faster more reliable path to the 250 miles away city.

The issue would be when your ping times go high, anything above 100 milliseconds for anything within your state.

What 2 sites are you trying to get a speedtest to?
 
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