I'm wondering how it's possible that download speeds vary so much depending on location.
Here are test dedicated servers:
- https://10gbps.io/datacenters they offer various test download files. They are connected to 10 Gbps Internet. (I only tried European servers.)
- One dedicated server located in Paris, France http://www.iliad-datacenter.com/ connected to 1 Gbps Internet offered by scaleway.com.
- One dedicated server located in Paris, France connected to 1 Gbps Internet offered by online.net.
Here are test computers:
- Windows 10, located in Warsaw, Poland (upc.pl is the ISP).
- An online speed test shows 120 mbit/s.
- The download speed from all three test dedicated servers reaches ~14-15 mb/s at all times (that's the max speed for this Internet connection).
- Windows 10 located in St. Petersburg.
- An online speed test shows over 100 mbit/s.
- The download speed from all three test dedicated servers reaches max ~2 mb/s (sometimes jumps to 5mb/s for a short while) at all times.
- This one is optic fiber and gives 1ms ping and very stable connection. Also, downloads from Nvidia/Apple/Microsoft websites (and other similar) are reaching max speed of 10+ mb/s at all times.
- Windows 10 located right next to Warsaw, Poland but with different (small, local) ISP.
- An online speed test shows over 100 mbit/s.
- The download speed from all three test dedicated servers reaches max 2mb/s. Similarly from Nvidia/Apple/Microsoft it's always full 10+ mb/s. It's optic fiber, ping is always 8-9ms.
So, how come I get very limited download speed from two locations and at the same time I get full speed from one?