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this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
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Some testing software in my experience can give you a higher speed than what you are getting and vice/versa.
For example the Xbox internal test in settings can give me a speed of +600mbps whereas a Google test on a wired connection can give me 300mbps on a 550mbps connection
Additionally, some ISP's may over provision by whatever % to cover overhead and other things.
This is Exactly what my ISP does. So I don’t know why you are being downvoted. I pay for symmetrical 1Gb. I receive, as tested through speedtest.net, 1060Mbps down and 1040Mbps up. In order to receive those speeds, I had to test from a computer with an ethernet interface faster than 1Gbps. And of course the router would also need to support the higher bandwidth link. My Mac Studio has a 10Gb interface; and my router has a 2.5Gb interface. If you have a router with WiFi 6 or 6e capability, you could also exceed 1Gb with that (providing the device you are testing with also supports it).
Yeah, I'm confused why he's being down voted. I do find Fast dot com to be inaccurate and likely that's why he's seeing this, but I work for an ISP and every customer is overprovisioned. It's more common than not if testing with a capable device, especially hardwired, they're getting more than what they pay for.