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I've read on here that download speed isn't affected by the browser you use, so can someone explain the below info for me? Having run a speed test on speedtest.net, you see that the results using Internet Explorer were far slower than using Firefox.

Ping: 15 ms

Download Speed: 8.54 Mbps

Upload Speed: 5.91 Mbps

And here are the results (which are consistent) using Firefox:

Ping: 10 ms

Download Speed: 30.1- Mbps

Upload Speed: 6.01 Mbps

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    How do you make the relation from ping to the installed/used browser?
    – harper
    Jan 26, 2015 at 16:01
  • Probably by visiting website like speedtest.net using different browsers. A lot users make this mistake Jan 26, 2015 at 16:24

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Browsers do not affect the bandwidth. They are completely independent of each other.

Your data makes no sense. However, I do have an idea. Speedtest.net will ping servers in your area to find the one with the lowest latency to do a test. I suspect, their might have been network congestion and the IE test went to a further/slower server to test from.

Run the tests again and be sure to pick the same server/location.

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You can be pretty sure that the browser you use cann't influence the internet speed you have. Another thing is, how fast can your browser show the transmitted HTML text, pictures or video files. You can try to speed-up your browser, take a look: http://www.wikihow.com/Speed-up-Browsers

Using this hints you can improve the speed of your current browser but not your internet speed.

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