Internet Speed

[MinEderPlayz]

Dear community,

I recently upgraded my poor 2MBit/s DSL internet connection to FTTH with 100MBit/s speed down and up.
Although I was able to download with the full 12,5MByte/s (100MBit/s) while inside Origin and the Mac App Store, I did not manage to achieve speeds higher than 5MByte/s (40-50MBit/s) in Google Chrome 28 and no more than 7-8MByte/s (60-70MBit/s) in Safari 6 with any download server. 😱 I tested several Gigabit servers hosted by universities and popular ones like MEGA or even Apple's iTunes download. None of these achieved higher download rates. 🙄
(By the way, speedtests via www.speedtest.net taken through the browser still show 100MBit/s.)
Even dedicated speedtest servers which offer big unusable files to dowload didn't do the trick.
Is this a problem in Safari and Chrome, did I just choose bad servers or is there any other reason (and solution) for this? 😕
Kind regards,
Tom 🙂

(Please excuse my bad English, I am from Germany and tried to avoid Google Translator 😱 - maybe that thing would have made this even worse...)

 

[iPhonemaster5S]

Dear community,

I recently upgraded my poor 2MBit/s DSL internet connection to FTTH with 100MBit/s speed down and up.
Although I was able to download with the full 12,5MByte/s (100MBit/s) while inside Origin and the Mac App Store, I did not manage to achieve speeds higher than 5MByte/s (40-50MBit/s) in Google Chrome 28 and no more than 7-8MByte/s (60-70MBit/s) in Safari 6 with any download server. 😱 I tested several Gigabit servers hosted by universities and popular ones like MEGA or even Apple's iTunes download. None of these achieved higher download rates. 🙄
(By the way, speedtests via www.speedtest.net taken through the browser still show 100MBit/s.)
Even dedicated speedtest servers which offer big unusable files to dowload didn't do the trick.
Is this a problem in Safari and Chrome, did I just choose bad servers or is there any other reason (and solution) for this? 😕
Kind regards,
Tom 🙂

(Please excuse my bad English, I am from Germany and tried to avoid Google Translator 😱 - maybe that thing would have made this even worse...)

What provider are you using? Vodafone? Arcor? I speak German if you like type in German and I will try and respond in German. Also some areas like Düsseldorf have issues with getting up to advertised speeds.

 

[MinEderPlayz]

What provider are you using? Vodafone? Arcor? I speak German if you like type in German and I will try and respond in German. Also some areas like Düsseldorf have issues with getting up to advertised speeds.

Well, as I mentioned advertised speeds ARE achieved with Origin, Mac App Store and speedtest.net - which is the only service running that fast through the browser. All other services that achieve those speeds rely on their own apps.

And now THIS is interesting: using a Boot Camp-Windows 8 installation with Internet Explorer, I achieved 12MByte/s downloads. Just not in OS X... 😱