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Can Internet speed decrease the further away a certain (server in a) country is from you?

Is there a general rule of thumb, per how many thousands km your Internet speed can naturally decrease and by how much? Something like "10 Mbit/s per 1000 km". (I've got from this SE answer that this might indeed be the case). However, I'm living…
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Different CPU info on Windows and Linux?

I have a (as in factory specs) 3.6 GHz AMD FM2 A8-Series A8 5600K CPU and There is at lease 0.2 GHz difference between hardware reports in Windows and Linux. I was tested on: Win7 ultimate x64 & x86 ( both tests for 3.4 GHz ) Win8.1 Pro x64 & x86 (…
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How to determine a network cable's maximum speed?

I have some machines connected in my workplace network using Ethernet cables. I know some types of Ethernet cable can handle speeds up to 5 Gbps but I'm not sure which ones. So I want to determine the max speed of each Ethernet cable run in my…
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Automatically collect internet (broadband) speed metrics over time

(Before anyone jumps to the conclusion that this is the same question as Quick way to check my broadband speed, please read it through. Also I am looking for more comprehensive and detailed data than the poster in this question.) Many years ago I…
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speedtest-cli very slow although network speed is fine

I'm encountering a strange problem here. On my local homeserver(Debian 9.9), speedtest-cli and it's python pendant are freaking slow. Since I use it to monitor my ISP connection stability, this is a problem. My first thought was my server or…
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How can I run a speed test for Netflix and Hulu?

Since the FCC rules were struck down I have noticed that Netflix and Hulu often stall on my Time Warner home connection. I've heard others are experiencing the same delays. I use Speedtest.net regularly from my computer and phone to check my…
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I can't reach the download speed result of speedtest

I'm from the Philippines. I have a PLDT connection. My download speed at speedtest goes up to 1183kB/s but my download speed only reaches 300kB/s. Is there something wrong with my internet connection? How can I reach my speedtest download speed?
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I need to test USB performance with Ext2 and Ext3 filesystems

Any tool which gives exact speed and cpu usage information? Likely dd and hdparm tools. Ouput is likely to come as below…
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Why is one of my devices getting gigabit internet speed but not the other if they both support it?

Today I got Fios gigabit internet. My desktop PC that has a MSI 970A-G43 Motherboard which I think is supposed to support up to 1000Mbps but I'm only getting around 300-400Mbps download and 600Mbps upload on an Ethernet connecting with a Cat6 cable.…
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Upload speed won't increase since upgrade

Update: This problem got fixed by completely reinstalling windows. If you have similar issues, make sure you have the right LAN drivers installed and there is no software or service running behind that messes with your LAN. I upgraded my upload…
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Linux tmpfs write speed slower than RAM speed

I have a HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9 server, specs are: CPU: Intel Xeon 2 CPUs E5-2687W v3 @ 3.10GHz, 25MB L3 cache, 10 cores ea RAM: 8x 32GB PC4-17000 DDR4 2133MHz CAS-15 1.2V SDRAM DIMM (256 GB total) (full server specs here) The server is running…
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Internet speed lower than Speedtest.net results during actual download

I am subscribed to VDSL2 with 10 Mbps Download and 1 Mbps Upload. My sync speeds on Modem's page is 11264 kbps down, 1119 kbps. On speedtest.net, I always get same result all the time at any given day; 10.54 Mbps download, 0.92Mbps Upload which is…
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Speedtest slow via SSH

I've got a small server at home (running Arch Linux) and I'm testing my internet speed. Using speedtest-cli directly from a terminal at the server I get DL speeds in the order of 30 Mbit/s and UL of 15 Mbit/s. However, when I SSH into my server from…
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Benchmark performance 30% speedup in mains over battery operation?

This observation arose as I was evaluating the running time efficiency of various implementations of a prime sieve algorithm. The surprise was finding that differences between the best algorithms was much less than the 30% speedup achieved running…
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One computer on network slow - but it wasn't always?

Let me start by saying that I have a pretty good understanding of my computer and OS so I've covered the basics here. I'll give you all the details and hopefully I can get some good feedback. I'm running a Dell less than a year old with an i7, win7,…
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