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Written by TobTobXX on 2024-10-06 at 21:09

Yay, I got a new top speed from my internet connection: 13MiB/s to github.com. Apparently github's servers are quite accessible from my location. Most other servers are between 4 to 8 MiB/s.

Quick reality check: What are your usual speeds when pulling data from servers over the internet?

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Written by Kristófer Reykjalín on 2024-10-06 at 21:14

@tobtobxx I’ll check when I’m back at my computer (tomorrow) and report back. What do you use to measure the speed to a particular server/site/URL?

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Written by TobTobXX on 2024-10-07 at 03:58

@reykjalin I use the extremely scientific way of just curling (lol) a big file from somewhere.

That being said, a better test would be speed.cloudflare.com. However, CF has excellent servers right next to me, so I get an unreasonable 100MiB/s, which isn't reflective of the real world.

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Written by TobTobXX on 2024-10-07 at 04:00

@reykjalin Try an LLM model from huggingface. They are big and downloadable by a simple curl command. I average about 6MiB/s

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Written by TobTobXX on 2024-10-07 at 04:02

@reykjalin Oh, wait, I think curl measures in Mebibytes, while Cloudflare measures in Megabits. The CF test might be accurate too.

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Written by Kristófer Reykjalín on 2024-10-08 at 18:43

@tobtobxx Cloudflare speedtest: 567 Mbps ~ 70 MiB/s.

Downloading a 1.42 GB file - one of the ollama models - took 75.17 seconds. That's ~ 18.9 MB/s to GitHub.

curl reported Average Download as "19.3M" which I can only assume is 19.3 MB/s and not 19.3 MiB/s 🤷‍♂️

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Written by TobTobXX on 2024-10-09 at 08:21

@reykjalin Wow, that's actually quite decent. Thanks for testing. And this is from Iceland I persume? Wondering if it's mainly the geography (I'm from Switzerland, I'd guess the servers are in the US) or the connection (our house only has a copper connection).

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Written by Kristófer Reykjalín on 2024-10-09 at 14:09

@tobtobxx I’m actually based in Canada right now :)

And yeah, I can’t complain! It’s supposed to be a 1Gbps connection which would mean ~ 125 MiB/s in peak condition. I think I get close enough when it matters :)

It’s probably the connection? The geography /probably/ only affects the latency and not the actual download speed? Although I guess you might see more packet loss which /would/ affect the download speed. I’m not an expert on networking though 😅

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