UPLOAD speed over 6x faster than DOWNLOAD speed?

vistapoints · EVDO Newbie Joined: 08 Jun 2009 Posts: 2

Hi all,

I just installed SmartView on my new netbook and ran most of the optimization steps (changing TCP Receive Window to 65536 and DNS to 4.2.2.1 / 4.2.2.2). However, I am not sure why my UPLOAD speed is over 6x faster than my DOWNLOAD speed, which is at 0.25mbps... please see attached pic.

I think at 1.31MB/s for upload is very respectable, but the 0.25MB/s download is certainly troublesome. (using speedtest.net; server @ Overland Park, KS. I am located in Atlanta, GA. Changing server locations did not affect the results)

Any insight is greatly appreciated.

colebert · EVDO Junkie Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 170

That is exactly backwards, in my experience. You should be seeing D/Ls like your U/L & U/Ls like your D/Ls. Try going to another tower to confirm. Maybe some engineer typed the caps into the wrong field at a particular tower.

expert007 · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 124

I've seen this on occasion too. Unfortunately I've never kept a record of when/where/under what conditions that happened. I wish I could consistently get that kind of upload!!!! Smile

n6gn · Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:20 am Post subject:

widgetman101 · EVDO Junkie Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Posts: 210

Go to rapidshare.com and upload a small 10Mb file to there server. It will give you your speed in kB/s. Then go to this site and plug it into the conversion calculator.

http://www.testmy.net/tools/convert.php

Use the kB/s » Kbps option and you will see your actual upload speed. At 1300 Kbps you should be uploading around 150-160 kB/s.

You could try testmy's upload speedtest before you try the rapidshare upload. See if you get the same 1300 Kbps area then try rapidshare. I find Testmy.net is pretty accurate.

The highest I've seen my upload via rapidshare was around 80 kB/s, which is around 650 Kbps. I just ran a quick test there and came up with these results which is probably around my average. I'd love to have an upload like yours if its not some type of speedtest error.

:::.. Upload Stats ..:::
Upload Connection is:: 399 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 49 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2009/06/09 - 10:09am
Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 20.9 sec
Tested from a 1013 kB file and took 20.815 seconds to complete
Upload Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 6.12 % faster than the average for host (myvzw.com)
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-0ECQM6YJS
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) [!]

starslicer · EVDO Newbie Joined: 17 Apr 2008 Posts: 9

I was getting this too, until I uninstalled that bytemoble optimization client that came with the latest sprint smart view.