aster wrote:This is an old one but it is still applicable today.
What you're doing is simply measuring the bandwidth between yourself (here in Singapore) and your IPS (here in Singapore). You are connected to them with a nice 200mbps connection, which just goes to show that the fibre cable is working as it should.
This does not mean that when using the internet you have a 200mbps connection to the world. This is the unfortunate bottleneck that people experience when comparing the speeds marketed by their ISPs to the true internet experience here.
It's easy to measure speed to far more than your local ISP with speedtest.net. You set the server that you want to ping to and go.
Example: I use a local server in Houston, get 44 ms ping time. 43 Mbps down, 6 Mbps up.
Then, I select a Singapore server, a Singtel server. I get a 309 ms ping, 20 Mbps download speed, 3.97 Mbps upload speed.
Then I try a server in Bangalore... 276 ms ping, 13 Mbps download speed, 3.98 Mbps upload.
So... seems the stories that about 20M bps in/out of Singapore seem to be true.