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[SVTCOL]

Who do we believe speed wise then Samknows or Speedtest 🤷🏼‍♂️

[jb66]

Samknows tells you your speed to the hub, speed test tells you the speed to your device 

[SVTCOL]

Yes I’m aware of that but Samknows has speed to the PC at 485Mbps but a Speedtest always reads about 850-900Mbps 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Richw1982]

would probably all depend on what server is being used for the speedtest, CPU usage, WiFi interference at the time of test etc

[jem101]

I’d trust the Speedtest results every single time.

[legacy1]

Can't say I trust how VM are doing Samknows speed test to the hub then to a PC makes no sense but then you can't do any speed test any where and then expect that speed from any where. Speed test will one day be a thing of the past.

[ozsat]

Samknows on the right is displaying the speed of the download running through a browser while Ookla is an effiecient app.

I always find browser tests to be much less than others - and different browsers will give a wide range of readings too.

I've been able to get 900Mbps on the PCF side in Edge after closing everything else on my PC. I suspect a lot of this variation is device dependent.

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@SVTCOL wrote:

Yes I’m aware of that but Samknows has speed to the PC at 485Mbps but a Speedtest always reads about 850-900Mbps 🤷🏼‍♂️

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[Ashleigh_C]

Hi there @SVTCOL

Thank you so much for your post and I am so sorry that you have gotten these varied speed test results. 

Can I ask if you are noticing any issues at all with your services? 

Thank you.

[SVTCOL]

No real issues as such just questions around the low speed reporting by Samknows to the PC compared to Speedtest via the app and on the Speedtest webpage. Seems a big drop from router to PC via a cat8 cable and a 10Gbps network card 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Ashleigh_C]

No problem and I'm glad there are no real issues but I am still sorry to see this drop in speed. 

Have you been able to try a speed test on this device with another Ethernet cable just in case? 

Thank you.